Basic Info
Release: September 28, 1987
Runtime: 56 min
Rating: ⭐ 6.5/10 (10 votes)
Status: Released
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The Ten-Year Lunch
1987
56 min
⭐ 6.5/10
10 votes
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.
Genres
Documentary
TV Movie
Production Countries
- United States of America
Spoken Languages
- English en
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Cast
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)
Crew
Aviva Slesin
Director
Aviva Slesin
Producer
Aviva Slesin
Executive Producer
Stephen Samuels
Executive Producer
Peter Foges
Writer
Mary Jo Kaplan
Writer
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