Wonderful Nonsense: The Algonquin Roundtable | Historical Documentary

YouTube ^ | 2007 | Lucas Film

[quilterdebbie]

I loved her “Pearls before swine” reply to the person holding the door open for her who said “Age before beauty”!

[SmokingJoe]

Yes.
She later moved to Hollywood and became even more famous in movies, even winning an Oscar.
Most of the Algonquin Roundtable members moved west to Hollywood when the depression struck New York City.

[SmokingJoe]

The great John Ford:

The World of John Ford | Historical Documentary | Lucasfilm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2wVXr741Ok

[quilterdebbie]

I didn’t know she was in the movies. Cool!

[Retrofitted]

I remember two: “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to” and “If all the girls attending the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.”

:) I love her wit!

[spankalib]

My dad loved her wit, as I was raised on it (didn't realize it until later in life, when he was gone)

I had a copy of "Sunset Gun" - a book of her poetry.

My dad's favorite was her description of shallow people.

(semi-quoting) "Their conversation runs the gamut...

...from A to B."

I also like her;(again, semi-quoting) "I like to have a martini
two at the very most
three I'm under the table,

four, I'm under the host."

[Savage Beast]

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”

“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under the host.”

“Tell him I was too f---ing busy, or vice versa.”

“Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.”

Dorothy Parker

[spankalib]

She later moved to Hollywood and became even more famous in movies

She was famous for screenplays & writing, she wasn't actually in a movie, was she?

[SmokingJoe]

Correct.

[quilterdebbie]

I checked her Wikipedia article. No acting mentioned, but writing with a couple of Oscar nominations for writing.

[PerConPat]

Edna Ferber, who often wore tailored suits, was also quick on the draw. Once at the Round Table, Noel Coward told her “You look almost like a man”...”So’...Miss Ferber replied...’do you.”

[Bigg Red]

mark

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[SmokingJoe]

An American Lion.

Theodore Roosevelt and the American Century | Historical Documentary | Lucasfilm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcChppiRXCI

[SisterK]

bookmark

[freepertoo]

Harpo’s den of friends.

[SunkenCiv]

[wardaddy]

Rare to upend Coward

His last gay “partner” was my then girlfriends Godfather

I knew him fairly well and heard many Noel tales and wittitudes

Anyhow used to walk by the Algonquin a lot since my office was west 47th off fifth

[wardaddy]

Parker was actually Jewish hence the wit

She was cute young and nice legs

But aged hard from serious hard liquor abuse