The Ten-Year Lunch
Documentary
TV Movie
The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
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.
1987-09-28
en
Cast
Heywood Hale Broun as Himself - Host
Marc Connelly as Himself - Participant
Margalo Gillmore as Herself - Participant
Ruth Gordon as Herself - Participant
Averell Harriman as Himself - Participant
Helen Hayes as Herself - Participant
Roberta Maxwell as Dorothy Parker (voice)
Marshall Efron as Alexander Woollcott (voice)
Cynthia Adler as Edna Ferber (voice)
Nat Benchley as Robert Benchley (voice)
Fred Gwynne as George S. Kaufman (voice)
Alexander Woollcott as Himself (archive footage)
Dorothy Parker as Herself (archive footage)
Edna Ferber as Herself (archive footage)
Harpo Marx as Himself (archive footage)
Robert Benchley as Himself (archive footage)
Robert E. Sherwood as Himself (archive footage)