The Ten-Year Lunch

The Ten-Year Lunch

6.4 | 1987-09-28 | Documentary 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.

Featured Crew

Aviva Slesin Director
Aviva Slesin Executive Producer
Donna Marino Editor
Elise Simon Goodman Associate Producer
Don Lenzer Director of Photography
Jill Frank Associate Producer
Stuart Math Director of Photography
Vic Losick Director of Photography
Aviva Slesin Producer
Mary Jo Kaplan Writer

Cast

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)

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