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The Ten-Year Lunch

6.5
28 September 1987 · Documentary, TV Movie · 56 mins

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.

  • Heywood Hale Broun
    Heywood Hale Broun
    Himself - Host
  • Marc Connelly
    Marc Connelly
    Himself - Participant
  • Margalo Gillmore
    Margalo Gillmore
    Herself - Participant
  • Ruth Gordon
    Ruth Gordon
    Herself - Participant
  • Averell Harriman
    Averell Harriman
    Himself - Participant
  • Helen Hayes
    Helen Hayes
    Herself - Participant
  • Roberta Maxwell
    Roberta Maxwell
    Dorothy Parker (voice)
  • Marshall Efron
    Marshall Efron
    Alexander Woollcott (voice)
  • Cynthia Adler
    Cynthia Adler
    Edna Ferber (voice)
  • Nat Benchley
    Nat Benchley
    Robert Benchley (voice)

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