The Ten-Year Lunch(1987)

🎬56 min
📅1987-09-28
🎭Documentary, TV Movie
6.5/10

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.

Production

American Masters Pictures, Aviva Films, Thirteen

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Cast

Heywood Hale Broun
as Himself - Host
Marc Connelly
as Himself - Participant
Margalo Gillmore
as Herself - Participant
Ruth Gordon
as Herself - Participant
Averell Harriman
as Himself - Participant
Helen Hayes
as Herself - Participant
Roberta Maxwell
as Dorothy Parker (voice)
Marshall Efron
as Alexander Woollcott (voice)
Cynthia Adler
as Edna Ferber (voice)
Nat Benchley
as Robert Benchley (voice)