
The Ten-Year Lunch
1987 • Documentary | TV Movie
Aviva Slesin
Director
Peter Foges
Writer
Mary Jo Kaplan
Writer
Status
Released
Release date
September 28, 1987
Duration
56 Min
Language
en
Popularity
0.16
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
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.
Cast

Heywood Hale Broun

Marc Connelly

Margalo Gillmore

Ruth Gordon

Averell Harriman

Helen Hayes

Roberta Maxwell

Marshall Efron

Cynthia Adler

Nat Benchley

Fred Gwynne

Alexander Woollcott

Dorothy Parker

Edna Ferber

Harpo Marx

Robert Benchley

Robert E. Sherwood