The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)
The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
1987 · 0h 56m · Documentary, TV Movie
Genres: Documentary, TV Movie
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…
Director: Aviva Slesin
Writers: Peter Foges, Mary Jo Kaplan
Cinematography: Jerry Pantzer, Stuart Math
Editor: Donna Marino
Cast
Heywood Hale Broun as Himself - HostMarc Connelly as Himself - ParticipantMargalo Gillmore as Herself - ParticipantRuth Gordon as Herself - ParticipantAverell Harriman as Himself - ParticipantHelen Hayes as Herself - ParticipantRoberta Maxwell as Dorothy Parker (voice)Marshall Efron as Alexander Woollcott (voice)Cynthia Adler as Edna Ferber (voice)Nat Benchley as Robert Benchley (voice)Fred Gwynne as George S. Kaufman (voice)Ray Owens as Franklin P. Adams (voice)More like this
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