Alexander Woollcott

Movies6

• Movie6.5

  DocumentaryTV Movie

  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.

  The Ten-Year Lunch

  1987 · 11 votes

• Movie6.6

  ComedyMusic

  Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead, they decide to put up their own show to collect money for a summer camp for the kids.

  Babes on Broadway

  1941 · 25 votes

• Movie5.2

  MusicComedy

  Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.

  Gift of Gab

  1934 · 4 votes

• Movie6.3

  Drama

  A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.

  The Scoundrel

  1935 · 15 votes

• Movie7.7

  Documentary

  Cécile, Annette, Yvonne, Émilie and Marie, the Dionne Quintuplets, turn five years old and have a private birthday party in their garden. Other than the five little French-Canadian princesses-of-the-world, the attendees at the party for the sheltered sisters are their doctor-and-mentor Roy Dafoe; a priest and two nurses; radio's "Town Crier" Alexander Woollcott; and RKO-Newsreel cameraman Harry Smith.

  Five Times Five

  1939 · 3 votes

• Movie6.3

  As the rather fussy 'Mr. W' is dining in a restaurant, the waiter introduces him to an attractive woman, who sits down at his table. She asks him to take her to the theater, but he declines, indicating that he would prefer to relax at the restaurant. To entertain her, he teaches her a word game called the 'Minute Game'.

  Mr. W's Little Game

  1934 · 4 votes