Poster of The Ten-Year Lunch

The Ten-Year Lunch

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.

Release Date: 1987-09-28

Original Language: en

Genres: Documentary TV Movie

Rating:

Popularity:

3.529

Cast Members

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)

Alexander Woollcott

Himself (archive footage)

Dorothy Parker

Herself (archive footage)

Edna Ferber

Herself (archive footage)

Franklin P. Adams

Himself (archive footage)

Harpo Marx

Himself (archive footage)

Raoul Fleischman

Himself (archive footage)

Robert Benchley

Himself (archive footage)

Robert E. Sherwood

Himself (archive footage)