THE TEN-YEAR LUNCH (1987)

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The Ten-Year Lunch
The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
Documentary, TV Movie
September 28, 1987
English
0h 56m
United States
American Masters Pictures
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 & Characters
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)
Crew
Aviva Slesin
Director
Mary Jo Kaplan
Writer
Peter Foges
Writer
Don Lenzer
Director of Photography
Stuart Math
Director of Photography
Vic Losick
Director of Photography
Tom Hurwitz
Director of Photography
Paul N. Raimondi
Director of Photography
Peter Hoving
Director of Photography
Jerry Pantzer
Director of Photography
Aviva Slesin
Producer
Aviva Slesin
Executive Producer
Stephen Samuels
Executive Producer