Film·1987·56m

The Ten-Year Lunch

DocumentaryTV 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.

Directed by Aviva Slesin

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12 credited

Heywood Hale Broun
Heywood Hale BrounHimself - Host
Marc Connelly
Marc ConnellyHimself - Participant
Margalo Gillmore
Margalo GillmoreHerself - Participant
Ruth Gordon
Ruth GordonHerself - Participant
Averell Harriman
Averell HarrimanHimself - Participant
Helen Hayes
Helen HayesHerself - Participant
Roberta Maxwell
Roberta MaxwellDorothy Parker (voice)
Marshall Efron
Marshall EfronAlexander Woollcott (voice)
Cynthia Adler
Cynthia AdlerEdna Ferber (voice)
Nat Benchley
Nat BenchleyRobert Benchley (voice)
Fred Gwynne
Fred GwynneGeorge S. Kaufman (voice)
Ray Owens
Ray OwensFranklin P. Adams (voice)

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