The Ten-Year Lunch
The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
Genres
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.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
56 min
Release Date
1987-09-28
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
10
Vote Average
6.5
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)
Alexander Woollcott
Himself (archive footage)
Dorothy Parker
Herself (archive footage)
Edna Ferber
Herself (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
Himself (archive footage)
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