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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
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)
Fred GwynneGeorge S. Kaufman (voice)Explore the crew
- Director
- Aviva Slesin
- Editor
- Donna Marino
- Director of Photography
- Don Lenzer
- Director of Photography
- Stuart Math
- Director of Photography
- Vic Losick
- Producer
- Aviva Slesin
- Writer
- Mary Jo Kaplan
- Writer
- Peter Foges
- Director of Photography
- Tom Hurwitz
- Director of Photography
- Paul N. Raimondi
- Director of Photography
- Peter Hoving
- Director of Photography
- Jerry Pantzer