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
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
Roberta Maxwell
Dorothy Parker (voice)
Marshall Efron
Alexander Woollcott (voice)
Cynthia Adler
Edna Ferber (voice)
Nat Benchley
Robert Benchley (voice)
Fred Gwynne
George S. Kaufman (voice)
Ray Owens
Franklin P. Adams (voice)
Alexander Woollcott
Himself (archive footage)
Dorothy Parker
Herself (archive footage)
Edna Ferber
Herself (archive footage)
Franklin P. Adams
Himself (archive footage)
Harpo Marx
Himself (archive footage)
Raoul Fleischman
Himself (archive footage)
Robert Benchley
Himself (archive footage)
Robert E. Sherwood
Himself (archive footage)
Crew
Aviva Slesin
Director, Executive Producer, Producer
Mary Jo Kaplan
Writer
Peter Foges
Writer
Donna Marino
Editor
Don Lenzer
Director of Photography
Stuart Math
Director of Photography
Vic Losick
Director of Photography
Tom Hurwitz
Director of Photography
Paul N. Raimondi
Director of Photography
Peter Hoving
Director of Photography
Jerry Pantzer
Director of Photography
Stephen Samuels
Executive Producer
Elise Simon Goodman
Associate Producer
Jill Frank
Associate Producer
Minda Novek
Associate Producer, Researcher
George Griffin
Animation
Fischer White
Animation
Brad Fuller
Sound Editor
Melissa Hacker
Assistant Sound Editor
Terese Nehrbauer
Assistant Sound Editor
Morning Slayter
Sound Mixer, Sound Recordist
Peter Miller
Sound Recordist
Judy Karp
Sound Recordist
Barbara Zahm
Sound Recordist
Robert Maier
Sound Recordist
Larry Provost
Sound Recordist
Janyce Ferrara
Researcher
