The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)
September 28, 1987
Documentary, TV Movie
56m


The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Aviva Slesin
- Himself - Host Heywood Hale Broun
- Himself - Participant Marc Connelly
- Herself - Participant Margalo Gillmore
- Herself - Participant Ruth Gordon
- Himself - Participant Averell Harriman
- Herself - Participant Helen Hayes
- Dorothy Parker (voice) Roberta Maxwell
- Alexander Woollcott (voice) Marshall Efron
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Keywords
- new york city
- journalist
- playwright
- writer
- woman director
- 1920s
- algonquin hotel
- literary lunch