The Ten-Year Lunch
9 reviews
Documentary/TV Movie
0h 56m
1987
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...
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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.
- DirectorAviva Slesin
- Release28 September 1987
- Genre
- Duration0h 56m
- Budget?
- Revenue?
- Rate9 reviews
- Productions
American Masters Pictures, Aviva Films, Thirteen
Cast

Heywood Hale Broun
Himself - Host

Marc Connelly
Himself - Participant

Margalo Gillmore
Herself - Participant

Ruth Gordon
Herself - Participant

Averell Harriman
Himself - Participant

Helen Hayes
Herself - Participant

Roberta Maxwell
Dorothy Parker (voice)

Marshall Efron
Alexander Woollcott (voice)

Cynthia Adler
Edna Ferber (voice)

Fred Gwynne
George S. Kaufman (voice)

Alexander Woollcott
Himself (archive footage)

Dorothy Parker
Herself (archive footage)

Edna Ferber
Herself (archive footage)

Harpo Marx
Himself (archive footage)

Robert Benchley
Himself (archive footage)

Robert E. Sherwood
Himself (archive footage)
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