The Ten-Year Lunch
1987 · 56 min
Documentary · TV Movie
★ 6.5The 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.
Crew
- Director Aviva Slesin
- Writer Peter Foges
- Writer Mary Jo Kaplan
- Director of Photography Don Lenzer
- Director of Photography Stuart Math
- Director of Photography Tom Hurwitz
- Director of Photography Peter Hoving
- Director of Photography Jerry Pantzer
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)
- R
Ray Owens
Franklin P. Adams (voice)
Crew
- Director — Aviva Slesin
- Writer — Peter Foges
- Writer — Mary Jo Kaplan
- Director of Photography — Don Lenzer
- Director of Photography — Stuart Math
- Director of Photography — Tom Hurwitz
- Director of Photography — Peter Hoving
- Director of Photography — Jerry Pantzer
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