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
Fred Gwynne
George S. Kaufman (voice)
Ruth Gordon
Herself - Participant
Roberta Maxwell
Dorothy Parker (voice)
Helen Hayes
Herself - Participant
Harpo Marx
Himself (archive footage)
Marshall Efron
Alexander Woollcott (voice)
Robert Benchley
Himself (archive footage)
Margalo Gillmore
Herself - Participant
Heywood Hale Broun
Himself - Host
Alexander Woollcott
Himself (archive footage)
Nat Benchley
Robert Benchley (voice)
Averell Harriman
Himself - Participant
Cynthia Adler
Edna Ferber (voice)
Ray Owens
Franklin P. Adams (voice)
Franklin P. Adams
Himself (archive footage)
Raoul Fleischman
Himself (archive footage)

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