The Ten-Year Lunch
1987/09/28 • Released • English
The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
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.
Director : Aviva Slesin
Casts
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)
Fred Gwynne
George S. Kaufman (voice)
Alexander Woollcott
Himself (archive footage)
Dorothy Parker
Herself (archive footage)
Edna Ferber
Herself (archive footage)
Harpo Marx
Himself (archive footage)
Robert Benchley
Himself (archive footage)
Robert E. Sherwood
Himself (archive footage)
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