The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)
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.
- Date of release
- 1987-09-28
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (11)
- Runtime
- 56m
- Genres
- Documentary, TV Movie
- Director
- Aviva Slesin
Casting
- Heywood Hale Broun — Himself - Host
- Marc Connelly — Himself - Participant
- Margalo Gillmore — Herself - Participant
- Ruth Gordon — Herself - Participant
- Averell Harriman — Himself - Participant
- Helen Hayes — Herself - Participant
- Roberta Maxwell — Dorothy Parker (voice)
- Marshall Efron — Alexander Woollcott (voice)
- Cynthia Adler — Edna Ferber (voice)
- Nat Benchley — Robert Benchley (voice)
- Fred Gwynne — George S. Kaufman (voice)
- Ray Owens — Franklin P. Adams (voice)
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: New York City
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table is a 1987 American documentary film by Aviva Slesin.
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