The Ten-Year Lunch
The Ten-Year Lunch

The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)

1987-09-28

(US) •

Documentary,

TV Movie

The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table

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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.

Movie Cast

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Heywood Hale Broun

Himself - Host

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Marc Connelly

Himself - Participant

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Margalo Gillmore

Herself - Participant

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Ruth Gordon

Herself - Participant

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Averell Harriman

Himself - Participant

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Helen Hayes

Herself - Participant

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Roberta Maxwell

Dorothy Parker (voice)

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Marshall Efron

Alexander Woollcott (voice)

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Cynthia Adler

Edna Ferber (voice)

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Nat Benchley

Robert Benchley (voice)

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Fred Gwynne

George S. Kaufman (voice)

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Ray Owens

Franklin P. Adams (voice)

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Alexander Woollcott

Himself (archive footage)

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Dorothy Parker

Herself (archive footage)

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Edna Ferber

Herself (archive footage)

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Franklin P. Adams

Himself (archive footage)

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Harpo Marx

Himself (archive footage)

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Raoul Fleischman

Himself (archive footage)

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Robert Benchley

Himself (archive footage)

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Robert E. Sherwood

Himself (archive footage)