Himself - Host
Heywood Hale Broun
Himself - Host
The Ten-Year Lunch
“The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table”
6.5
1987
56m
DocumentaryTV Movie
Director: Aviva Slesin
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.
Cast
Himself - Participant
Marc Connelly
Himself - Participant
Herself - Participant
Margalo Gillmore
Herself - Participant
Herself - Participant
Ruth Gordon
Herself - Participant
Himself - Participant
Averell Harriman
Himself - Participant
Herself - Participant
Helen Hayes
Herself - Participant
Dorothy Parker (voice)
Roberta Maxwell
Dorothy Parker (voice)
Alexander Woollcott (voice)
Marshall Efron
Alexander Woollcott (voice)
Edna Ferber (voice)
Cynthia Adler
Edna Ferber (voice)
Robert Benchley (voice)
Nat Benchley
Robert Benchley (voice)
George S. Kaufman (voice)
Fred Gwynne
George S. Kaufman (voice)
Franklin P. Adams (voice)
Ray Owens
Franklin P. Adams (voice)
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“The Ten-Year Lunch” Wins Documentary Feature: 1988 Oscars
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