Talks for ‘21’ Club TV drama

DESCENDANTS of the families that once owned the iconic “21” Club are in talks to create a period TV drama about the legendary Prohibition venue and its famous patrons.

Relatives of original owner Jack Kriendler have contacted the estate of Sheldon Tannen, former chairman and president of the “21” Club, and the last of the original family owners, who passed away in April 2018.

Meanwhile, famed NYC divorce attorney Raoul Felder is also working on a book about the joint — owned by LVMH subsidy Belmond, who said it could be shut for good.

Herbert Nass, co-executor of Tannen’s estate told Page Six that the Tannen family had been contacted by relatives of Kriendler, who founded “21” with Charlie Berns as a speakeasy in 1930.

Nass said, “It is early days, but the idea is to create a period drama about the ‘21’ Club during the Prohibition era.”

Felder, partner in Stutman Stutman Lichtenstein & Felder, has authored and is shopping a novelized history of “21.”

Felder was at the club all the time — he even had his own table, the first one on the left after you came in the door. The only time he had to give up that table was early in Donald Trump’s presidency when Trump would come into the club and took his table.

He said, “I just finished the book, which contains all the legendary stories of ‘21’ Club, the gangsters, the celebrity intrigue, the affairs and the fights.” He is now shopping it to publishers.

The historic Midtown eatery — a favorite haunt for John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway and Frank Sinatra, and a dining spot for nearly every president since FDR — has shuttered its jockey-lined doors indefinitely after 90 years. Its 148 employees have been told that they’ll all be out of a job as of early March.

With the exception of George W. Bush, every president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has dined at ‘21.’