Movie Description
The Ten-Year Lunch
(1987)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.
Featured Crew
- Director : Aviva Slesin
- Producer : Aviva Slesin
- Writer : Peter Foges,Mary Jo Kaplan
- Editor : Donna Marino
- Cast : Heywood Hale Broun,Marc Connelly,Margalo Gillmore,Ruth Gordon,Averell Harriman,Helen Hayes,Roberta Maxwell,Marshall Efron,Cynthia Adler,Nat Benchley,Fred Gwynne,Ray Owens,Alexander Woollcott,Dorothy Parker,Edna Ferber,Franklin P. Adams,Harpo Marx,Raoul Fleischman,Robert Benchley,Robert E. Sherwood
Cast
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Dorothy Parker (voice)
Alexander Woollcott (voice)
Edna Ferber (voice)
Robert Benchley (voice)
George S. Kaufman (voice)
Franklin P. Adams (voice)
Himself (archive footage)
Herself (archive footage)
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Facts
Original TitleThe Ten-Year Lunch
Status Released
Release Information
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1987-09-28
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 00h 56m
Homepagehttps://www.avivaslesin.com/films.php
Production CompaniesAmerican Masters Pictures,Aviva Films,Thirteen
Genres
- Documentary
- TV Movie
