Mr. Caldwell's story was a P&P riff on The Man Who Came to Dinner by George Kaufman and Moss Hart, which ran on Broadway from 1939 ri 1941, about an irascible newspaper columnist and radio commentator, modeled on Alexander Woolcott, forced to recuperate in the home of a businessman in a small Midwestern town when he breaks his leg on a patch of ice on their front porch. It was made into a movie in 1942 with Monty Woolley as the unwilling guest.
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