Documentary TV Movie
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.
Directed by
Aviva Slesin
Written by
Peter Foges, Mary Jo Kaplan
Fred Gwynne
George S. Kaufman (voice)
Ruth Gordon
Herself - Participant
Marshall Efron
Alexander Woollcott (voice)
Roberta Maxwell
Dorothy Parker (voice)
Harpo Marx
Himself (archive footage)
Robert Benchley
Himself (archive footage)
Helen Hayes
Herself - Participant
Margalo Gillmore
Herself - Participant
Cynthia Adler
Edna Ferber (voice)
Heywood Hale Broun
Himself - Host
Averell Harriman
Himself - Participant
Alexander Woollcott
Himself (archive footage)
Nat Benchley
Robert Benchley (voice)
Ray Owens
Franklin P. Adams (voice)
Franklin P. Adams
Himself (archive footage)
Raoul Fleischman
Himself (archive footage)

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