About
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.
DVD / Blu-ray
Jan 1, 1988
Director
Producers
Aviva Slesin, Minda Novek, Elise Simon Goodman
Studio
American Masters Pictures, Aviva Films, Thirteen
Cast
Full credits →H
Heywood Hale Broun
Himself - Host
M
Marc Connelly
Himself - Participant
M
Margalo Gillmore
Herself - Participant
R
Ruth Gordon
Herself - Participant
A
Averell Harriman
Himself - Participant
H
Helen Hayes
Herself - Participant
R
Roberta Maxwell
Dorothy Parker (voice)
M
Marshall Efron
Alexander Woollcott (voice)
C
Cynthia Adler
Edna Ferber (voice)
N
Nat Benchley
Robert Benchley (voice)
F
Fred Gwynne
George S. Kaufman (voice)
A
Alexander Woollcott
Himself (archive footage)
D
Dorothy Parker
Herself (archive footage)
E
Edna Ferber
Herself (archive footage)
F
Franklin P. Adams
Himself (archive footage)
H
Harpo Marx
Himself (archive footage)
R
Robert Benchley
Himself (archive footage)
R
Robert E. Sherwood
Himself (archive footage)
