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

The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)

Poster for The Ten-Year Lunch

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
  • Profile picture of Heywood Hale Broun
    Himself - Host Heywood Hale Broun
  • Profile picture of Marc Connelly
    Himself - Participant Marc Connelly
  • Profile picture of Margalo Gillmore
    Herself - Participant Margalo Gillmore
  • Profile picture of Ruth Gordon
    Herself - Participant Ruth Gordon
  • Profile picture of Averell Harriman
    Himself - Participant Averell Harriman
  • Profile picture of Helen Hayes
    Herself - Participant Helen Hayes
  • Profile picture of Roberta Maxwell
    Dorothy Parker (voice) Roberta Maxwell
  • Profile picture of Marshall Efron
    Alexander Woollcott (voice) Marshall Efron

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Keywords

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