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The Ten-Year Lunch

(1987)

September 28, 1987 0h 56m
65%
TMDB Score

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.

Aviva Slesin

Director

Top Billed Cast

HHB

Heywood Hale Broun

Himself - Host

MC

Marc Connelly

Himself - Participant

MG

Margalo Gillmore

Herself - Participant

RG

Ruth Gordon

Herself - Participant

AH

Averell Harriman

Himself - Participant

HH

Helen Hayes

Herself - Participant

RM

Roberta Maxwell

Dorothy Parker (voice)

ME

Marshall Efron

Alexander Woollcott (voice)

CA

Cynthia Adler

Edna Ferber (voice)

NB

Nat Benchley

Robert Benchley (voice)