The Ten-Year Lunch
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1987-09-28
Runtime: 56 mins
Director: Aviva Slesin
Writer: Peter Foges, Mary Jo Kaplan
Spoken language: English
Genres: Documentary, TV Movie
Original title: The Ten-Year Lunch
Production Companies: American Masters Pictures, Aviva Films, Thirteen
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
Heywood Hale Broun
Marc Connelly
Margalo Gillmore
Ruth Gordon
Averell Harriman
Helen Hayes
Roberta Maxwell
Marshall Efron
Cynthia Adler
Nat Benchley
Fred Gwynne
Ray Owens
Alexander Woollcott
Dorothy Parker
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