The Ten-Year Lunch
Documentary | TV Movie
Release Date
September 28, 1987
Duration
56 min
Status
Released
Language
en
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.
Casts
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
Edna Ferber (voice)
Cynthia Adler
Robert Benchley (voice)
Nat Benchley
George S. Kaufman (voice)
Fred Gwynne
Franklin P. Adams (voice)
Ray Owens
Himself (archive footage)
Alexander Woollcott
Herself (archive footage)
Dorothy Parker
Herself (archive footage)
Edna Ferber
Himself (archive footage)
Franklin P. Adams
Himself (archive footage)
Harpo Marx
Himself (archive footage)
Raoul Fleischman
Himself (archive footage)
Robert Benchley
Himself (archive footage)
Robert E. Sherwood
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