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Paramount Pictures
details
Running Time: 124 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
The story of Dorothy Parker and the famed Algonquin roundtable; a gathering of writers, actors and assorted folk at the New York hotel in the late 1920s and 30s.
cast + crew
Director
Dorothy Parker
Robert Benchley
Charles MacArthur
Eddie Parker
Alan Campbell
Gertrude Benchley
Paula Hunt
Harold Ross
Jane Grant
Alexander Woolcott
screenplay
screenplay
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Executive Producer
Producer
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Associate Producer
reviews
February 27, 2001
Alan Rudolph has a sneaky, clever notion in co-writing and directing this look at the intimidating wits, led by writer, poet and critic Dorothy Parker (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who gathered daily for lunch and literate bitching at the round table in Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel during the 1920s. Rudolph reminds us how young and vulnerable they were before legend set them in stone. The scenes around the table with a group that includes humorist Robert Benchley (Campbell Scott), author Edna Ferber…
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