The Ten-Year Lunch

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.

Directed by Aviva Slesin

Top cast

Heywood Hale Broun

Himself - Host

Marc Connelly

Himself - Participant

Margalo Gillmore

Herself - Participant

Ruth Gordon

Herself - Participant

Averell Harriman

Himself - Participant

Helen Hayes

Herself - Participant

Roberta Maxwell

Dorothy Parker (voice)

Marshall Efron

Alexander Woollcott (voice)

Cynthia Adler

Edna Ferber (voice)

Nat Benchley

Robert Benchley (voice)

Fred Gwynne

George S. Kaufman (voice)

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Ray Owens

Franklin P. Adams (voice)

Alexander Woollcott

Himself (archive footage)

Dorothy Parker

Herself (archive footage)

Edna Ferber

Herself (archive footage)

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Franklin P. Adams

Himself (archive footage)

Harpo Marx

Himself (archive footage)

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Raoul Fleischman

Himself (archive footage)

Robert Benchley

Himself (archive footage)

Robert E. Sherwood

Himself (archive footage)

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