The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)

The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table

Directed by Aviva Slesin56mDocumentary,TV Movie

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.

Year
1987
Country
US
Language
English
Release date
28 September 1987
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6.5 (11)
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Heywood Hale Broun
Heywood Hale Broun
Himself - Host
Marc Connelly
Marc Connelly
Himself - Participant
Margalo Gillmore
Margalo Gillmore
Herself - Participant
Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon
Herself - Participant
Averell Harriman
Averell Harriman
Himself - Participant
Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes
Herself - Participant
Roberta Maxwell
Roberta Maxwell
Dorothy Parker (voice)
Marshall Efron
Marshall Efron
Alexander Woollcott (voice)
Cynthia Adler
Cynthia Adler
Edna Ferber (voice)
Nat Benchley
Nat Benchley
Robert Benchley (voice)
Fred Gwynne
Fred Gwynne
George S. Kaufman (voice)
R
Ray Owens
Franklin P. Adams (voice)
Alexander Woollcott
Alexander Woollcott
Himself (archive footage)
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
Herself (archive footage)
Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber
Herself (archive footage)
F
Franklin P. Adams
Himself (archive footage)
Harpo Marx
Harpo Marx
Himself (archive footage)
R
Raoul Fleischman
Himself (archive footage)
Robert Benchley
Robert Benchley
Himself (archive footage)
Robert E. Sherwood
Robert E. Sherwood
Himself (archive footage)

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