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The Ten-Year Lunch

64 %|Sep 28, 1987|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 social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.

Featured Crew

Aviva Slesin
Director
Aviva Slesin
Producer
Aviva Slesin
Executive Producer
Stephen Samuels
Executive Producer
Donna Marino
Editor
Peter Foges
Writer
Mary Jo Kaplan
Writer
Minda Novek
Researcher

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)