The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)
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.
- Released
- 1987-09-28
- Genres
- Documentary, TV Movie
- Runtime
- 56 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Aviva Slesin
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 from 11 votes
Cast
- Heywood Hale Broun as Himself - Host
- Marc Connelly as Himself - Participant
- Margalo Gillmore as Herself - Participant
- Ruth Gordon as Herself - Participant
- Averell Harriman as Himself - Participant
- Helen Hayes as Herself - Participant
- Roberta Maxwell as Dorothy Parker (voice)
- Marshall Efron as Alexander Woollcott (voice)
- Cynthia Adler as Edna Ferber (voice)
- Nat Benchley as Robert Benchley (voice)
- Fred Gwynne as George S. Kaufman (voice)
- Ray Owens as Franklin P. Adams (voice)
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