Dooley had reserved a front seat for Hepburn, who he received at the door. Houghton was the niece of the late four-time Oscar winner Katherine Hepburn, who arrived for opening night.
He asked Katharine Houghton to perform her one-person play, “To Heaven in a Swing,” there. In 1982, he was on the board of directors of the Ivoryton Playhouse in Essex, Connecticut.
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More: 'Challenged' novel on police brutality sparks discussion at Tiverton School Committee meetingĭooley’s book is not chronological, but a series of fascinating snapshots of people with whom he had run-ins. Dooley writes his sister was fired for joining an effort “to unionize the servants, who at that time, worked six-and-one-half days a week for little money.” And that’s exactly what he did.”Įileen Dooley’s time as a parlor maid was short. The managing editor looked into it and said “the photographer explained that he was told to take a picture of the prettiest girl on the beach. Some of Newport’s high society at the time asked why the Journal would publish “a photograph of a maid instead of one of the young society debutantes” at the beach.
That story garners only a brief mention in Dooley’s newest book, Dooley Noted: Tales of an Ordinary Man Fortunate Enough to Meet a Lot of Extraordinary People in His Life’s Journey. Now 90, Dooley looks back on a long life filled with fascinating encounters with people from all walks of life. Feroce was fired as CEO that year and the firm went in another direction. A television series with the same name also was planned.ĭooley, the screenwriter and executive producer of the planned film, had lined up Richard Gere, Olympia Dukakis, and other notable actors to star in the film, but at the last minute, the financiers of the film, Giovanni Feroce, CEO of Alex & Ani, and Carolyn Rafaelian, founder and principal of the firm, backed out in early 2013. NEWPORT - "The Gilded Age” now premiering on HBO is set among the city’s mansions, but eight years ago, then-Newport resident Ken Dooley was all ready to go with a film, “Bellevue Avenue,” which was to portray life among Newport's wealthy class in that era.
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