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 Producer
Aviva Slesin Executive Producer
Stephen Samuels Executive Producer
Donna Marino Editor
Peter Foges Writer
Mary Jo Kaplan Writer
Minda Novek Researcher
Morning Slayter Sound Mixer
Peter Miller Sound Recordist

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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