The Ten-Year Lunch
The Ten-Year Lunch
1987
56m
6.5/10 (10 votes)
Director: Aviva Slesin

The Ten-Year Lunch

"The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table"

DocumentaryTV Movie

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.

Top Cast

Heywood Hale Broun

Heywood Hale Broun

Himself - Host

Marc Connelly

Marc Connelly

Himself - Participant

Margalo Gillmore

Margalo Gillmore

Herself - Participant

Ruth Gordon

Ruth Gordon

Herself - Participant

Averell Harriman

Averell Harriman

Himself - Participant

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