The Ten-Year Lunch (1988)

  • NR
  • 01/01/1988 (US)
  • Documentary, TV Movie
  • 56m

Overview

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.

Aviva Slesin

Director

Mary Jo Kaplan

Writer

Peter Foges

Writer

Cast

Heywood Hale Broun's headshot

Heywood Hale Broun

Himself - Host
Marc Connelly's headshot

Marc Connelly

Himself - Participant
Margalo Gillmore's headshot

Margalo Gillmore

Herself - Participant
Ruth Gordon's headshot

Ruth Gordon

Herself - Participant
Averell Harriman's headshot

Averell Harriman

Himself - Participant
Helen Hayes's headshot

Helen Hayes

Herself - Participant
Roberta Maxwell's headshot

Roberta Maxwell

Dorothy Parker (voice)
Marshall Efron's headshot

Marshall Efron

Alexander Woollcott (voice)

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