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The Ten-Year Lunch
Film / 1987

The Ten-Year Lunch

Directed by Aviva Slesin
DocumentaryTV movie

★ 6.5/10Audience rating

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 story

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 BrounHimself - Host Marc ConnellyHimself - Participant Margalo GillmoreHerself - Participant Ruth GordonHerself - Participant Averell HarrimanHimself - Participant Helen HayesHerself - Participant Roberta MaxwellDorothy Parker (voice) Marshall EfronAlexander Woollcott (voice) Cynthia AdlerEdna Ferber (voice) Nat BenchleyRobert Benchley (voice) Fred GwynneGeorge S. Kaufman (voice) Ray OwensFranklin P. Adams (voice)
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Alexander WoollcottHimself (archive footage) Dorothy ParkerHerself (archive footage) Edna FerberHerself (archive footage) Franklin P. AdamsHimself (archive footage) Harpo MarxHimself (archive footage) Raoul FleischmanHimself (archive footage) Robert BenchleyHimself (archive footage) Robert E. SherwoodHimself (archive footage)

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