The Ten-Year Lunch
The Ten-Year Lunch
Release: 1987-09-28
·Runtime: 56m
·★ 6.5
Documentary
TV Movie
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
American Masters Pictures
Aviva Films
Thirteen
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Dorothy Parker
as Herself (archive footage)
Edna Ferber
as Herself (archive footage)
Ruth Gordon
as Herself - Participant
Averell Harriman
as Himself - Participant
Roberta Maxwell
as Dorothy Parker (voice)
Nat Benchley
as Robert Benchley (voice)
Harpo Marx
as Himself (archive footage)
Robert Benchley
as Himself (archive footage)
Marc Connelly
as Himself - Participant
Fred Gwynne
as George S. Kaufman (voice)
Helen Hayes
as Herself - Participant
Marshall Efron
as Alexander Woollcott (voice)
Cynthia Adler
as Edna Ferber (voice)
Robert E. Sherwood
as Himself (archive footage)
Heywood Hale Broun
as Himself - Host
Margalo Gillmore
as Herself - Participant
Alexander Woollcott
as Himself (archive footage)
