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
Mary Jo Kaplan, Peter Foges
Ruth Gordon
Herself - Participant
Fred Gwynne
George S. Kaufman (voice)
Helen Hayes
Herself - Participant
Robert Benchley
Himself (archive footage)
Roberta Maxwell
Dorothy Parker (voice)
Marshall Efron
Alexander Woollcott (voice)
Harpo Marx
Himself (archive footage)
Margalo Gillmore
Herself - Participant
Cynthia Adler
Edna Ferber (voice)
Heywood Hale Broun
Himself - Host
Alexander Woollcott
Himself (archive footage)
Averell Harriman
Himself - Participant
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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