The Ten-Year Lunch

The Ten-Year Lunch

1987
56m
6.5

6.5/10

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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.

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Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
American Masters Pictures Aviva Films Thirteen
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English

Keywords

new york city journalist playwright writer woman director 1920s algonquin hotel literary lunch

Quick Facts

Release Date September 28, 1987
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0094119
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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)

Fred Gwynne
Fred Gwynne

George S. Kaufman (voice)

Ray Owens
Ray Owens

Franklin P. Adams (voice)

Key Crew

Aviva Slesin
Director
Aviva Slesin
Producer
Aviva Slesin
Executive Producer
Stephen Samuels
Executive Producer
Peter Foges
Writer
Mary Jo Kaplan
Writer