The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
Director: Aviva Slesin
Writer: Mary Jo Kaplan, Peter Foges
Producer: Aviva Slesin
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.
56 min
Rating: 6.5/10
Released
Top Cast
Heywood Hale Broun
Himself - Host
Marc Connelly
Himself - Participant
Margalo Gillmore
Herself - Participant
Ruth Gordon
Herself - Participant
Averell Harriman
Himself - Participant
Helen Hayes
Herself - Participant
Movie Info
Director: Aviva Slesin
Writer: Mary Jo Kaplan, Peter Foges
Producer: Aviva Slesin
Production Companies: American Masters Pictures, Aviva Films, Thirteen
Countries: United States of America
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