Jan 01, 1994
40 min
Full-HD

Would You Kindly Direct Me to Hell?: The Infamous Dorothy Parker (1994)

Portrait of writer Dorothy Parker, her Algonquin Round Table friends, her writing and her troubled life. Includes interviews, archival footage of Parker reading poetry and scenes from the 1994 film on Parker's life, "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle," starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Matthew Broderick.

Category

Documentary

Country

United States of America

Companies

Wendy Liebman

Narrator

Matthew Broderick

Commentator

Heywood Hale Broun

Commentator

Randy Sue Coburn

Commentator

Brendan Gill

Commentator

Molly Haskell

Commentator

Fran Lebowitz

Commentator

Madeline Lee

Commentator

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