- Documentary, TV Movie
- 56 min
The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
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.
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Cast
- Heywood Hale BrounHimself - Host
- Marc ConnellyHimself - Participant
- Margalo GillmoreHerself - Participant
- Ruth GordonHerself - Participant
- Averell HarrimanHimself - Participant
- Helen HayesHerself - Participant
- Roberta MaxwellDorothy Parker (voice)
- Marshall EfronAlexander Woollcott (voice)
- Cynthia AdlerEdna Ferber (voice)
- Nat BenchleyRobert Benchley (voice)
Crew
- Aviva SlesinDirector
- Peter FogesWriter
- Mary Jo KaplanWriter
- Jerry PantzerDirector of Photography
- Stuart MathDirector of Photography
- Tom HurwitzDirector of Photography
- Donna MarinoEditor
- Aviva SlesinProducer
Cameos
- Robert E. SherwoodThemselves
- Edna FerberThemselves
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