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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle was a film released in 1994. It was written and directed by Alan Rudolph and starred Jennifer Jason Leigh as the writer Dorothy Parker.

The film revolves around Mrs. Parker's life, career, and romances. Mrs. Parker (1893-1967) was a writer, critic, wit and champion for social justice.

Mrs. Parker was an original member of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of writers, actors and critics that met almost daily from 1919-1929 at Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel.

The following is a list of the actors and the real-life personalities they portrayed:

The Vicious Circle

Jennifer Jason Leigh
played Dorothy Parker
Campbell Scott
played Robert Benchley
Martha Plimpton
played Jane Grant
Sam Robards
played Harold Ross
Lili Taylor
played Edna Ferber
James LeGros
played Deems Taylor
Nick Cassavetes
played Robert Sherwood
David Thornton played George S. Kaufman
Tom McGowan
played Alexander Woollcott
Chip Zien
played Franklin Pierce Adams
Gary Basaraba
played Heywood Broun
Jane Adams played Ruth Hale
Matt Malloy played Marc Connelly
Rebecca Miller
played Neysa McMein
Jake Johannsen played John Peter Toohey
David Gow played Donald Ogden Stewart
Leni Parker played Beatrice Kaufman
J.M. Henry played Harpo Marx

Husbands, Wives, Lovers, Friends of the Round Table

Jennifer Beals
played Gertrude Benchley
Peter Benchley
played Frank Crowninshield
Matthew Broderick
played Charles MacArthur
Keith Carradine
played Will Rogers
Amelia Campbell played Mary Brandon Sherwood
Jon Favreau
played Elmer Rice
Peter Gallagher
played Alan Campbell
Malcolm Gets
played F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heather Graham
played Mary Kennedy Taylor
Andrew McCarthy
played Eddie Parker
Gisèle Rousseau played Polly Adler

Fictional Characters

Stephen Baldwin
played Roger Spalding
Gwyneth Paltrow
played Paula Hunt
Wallace Shawn
played Horatio Byrd

Peter Benchley who played editor Frank Crowninshield is the grandson of Robert Benchley, the humorist who once worked underneath Crowninshield. Actor Wallace Shawn is the son of William Shawn, the longtime editor of The New Yorker.

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