The Ten-Year Lunch

The Ten-Year Lunch

56 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Sept. 28, 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.

The Ten-Year Lunch

56 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Sept. 28, 1987

The Ten-Year Lunch
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.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Thirteen, American Masters Pictures, Aviva Films
Original title The Ten-Year Lunch
Directors Aviva Slesin
Writers Mary Jo Kaplan, Peter Foges

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)

Alexander Woollcott

as Himself (archive footage)

Dorothy Parker

as Herself (archive footage)

Edna Ferber

as Herself (archive footage)

Franklin P. Adams

as Himself (archive footage)

Harpo Marx

as Himself (archive footage)

Raoul Fleischman

as Himself (archive footage)

Robert Benchley

as Himself (archive footage)

Robert E. Sherwood

as Himself (archive footage)