1987-09-28 • 0h 56m

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.

Directors

Aviva Slesin

Writters

Mary Jo Kaplan, Peter Foges

Editors

Donna Marino