

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.

Dorothy Parker

Robert Benchley

Charles MacArthur

Alan Campbell

Gertrude Benchley

Eddie Parker

Horatio Byrd

Jane Grant

Harold Ross

Edna Ferber

Deems Taylor

Paula Hunt

Robert Sherwood

George S. Kaufman

Mary Kennedy Taylor

Alexander Woollcott

Franklin P. Adams

Heywood Broun

Ruth Hale

Roger Spalding

Marc Connelly

Neysa McMein

Mary Brandon Sherwood

Donald Ogden Stewart

Beatrice Kaufman
Harpo Marx

Fred Hunter

Joanie Gerard

Alvan Barach

Will Rogers

Elmer Rice

Georges Attends

Home Movie Director

Assistant Director

Propman
Producer

Ward

Valentine's Day Director

Actor

Actress
Mail Clerk

Frank Crowninshield
Speakeasy Bartender
Cab Driver (1922)
Nurse

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Long Island Hostess

Long Island Investor

Phillip the Producer
Polly Adler

New Yorker Secretary

Actress in Mirror

Russian Director

Writer #1

Writer #2

Writer #3
Marcy

June

Cab Driver (1958)

Host at Tribute
Reporter #1
Reporter #2

Bartender (1958)

Picnic Guest (uncredited)

Director

Writer
Writer
Production Design

Original Music Composer
Second Assistant Director
Executive Producer
Costume Design
Executive Producer
Set Decoration
Costume Design
Assistant Hairstylist
Unit Manager
Makeup Artist
Hairstylist

Co-Producer
Art Direction
Assistant Hairstylist
Makeup Artist
Unit Production Manager
Associate Producer
Casting

Makeup Effects

Assistant Director
Third Assistant Director
Makeup Artist
Director of Photography

Producer
Editor