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9.0/10   22 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Peter Foges (writer)
Mary Jo Kaplan (writer)
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Release Date:
March 1987 (USA) more
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The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
Plot:
Profile of the group of writers and humorists who formed lasting friendships and collaborations centered... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 1 win & 1 nomination more
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Superb film more (5 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Heywood Hale Broun ... Himself - Host
Marc Connelly ... Himself (archive footage)
Margalo Gillmore ... Herself

Ruth Gordon ... Herself
Averell Harriman ... Himself
Helen Hayes ... Herself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Franklin P. Adams ... Himself (archive footage) (as Franklin Pierce Adams)
Robert Benchley ... Himself (archive footage)
Edna Ferber ... Herself (archive footage)
Raoul Fleischman ... Himself (archive footage)

Harpo Marx ... Himself (archive footage)
Dorothy Parker ... Herself (archive footage)
Robert E. Sherwood ... Himself (archive footage)
Alexander Woollcott ... Himself (archive footage)
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56 min
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
One of the few films that was nominated for both an Oscar and an Emmy. more
Movie Connections:
References A Night at the Opera (1935) more
Soundtrack:
Over There more

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4 out of 4 people found the following review useful.
Superb film, 31 July 2006
10/10
Author: trippittpenn from United States

I,like Tommi above, taped this years ago off of PBS and my copy is very well worn.

Why is this not on DVD??? It is such a superb documentary, and one that absolutely entertains as well as informs. Friends of mine have begged to see it over and over.

Further, it won the Academy Award as best Doc!!!! What gives? There are enough one-liners in the first hour from Dorothy Parker and crew that for zinger fodder alone it should stand tall!! But it also presents such a perfect glimpse into that rarefied, wonderful world of the Jazz Age, between the wars and in the best city on the planet. This film shows WHY New York was and remains what it is.

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