The Ten-Year Lunch Poster

The Ten-Year Lunch 1987

β˜… 6.510 votes56 minπŸ“… 1987-09-28

"The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table"

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.

Director: Aviva Slesin

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
Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes
Herself - Participant
Roberta Maxwell
Roberta Maxwell
Dorothy Parker (voice)
Marshall Efron
Marshall Efron
Alexander Woollcott (voice)
Cynthia Adler
Cynthia Adler
Edna Ferber (voice)
Nat Benchley
Nat Benchley
Robert Benchley (voice)