The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)

09/28/1987 (US) • 56m

Documentary, TV Movie

The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table

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.

Top Billed 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)


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

new york city

journalist

playwright

writer

woman director

1920s

algonquin hotel

literary lunch

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