The Ten-Year Lunch
The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
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.
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)
Ray Owens
Franklin P. Adams (voice)
Alexander Woollcott
Himself (archive footage)
Dorothy Parker
Herself (archive footage)
Edna Ferber
Herself (archive footage)
Franklin P. Adams
Himself (archive footage)
Similar Movies
Mr. X
2014
Indecency
1992
Birth/Mother
2006
Face to Face: The Schappell Twins
1999
Revolution: New Art for a New World
2017
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
2014
Travelling with Tove
1993
Inês
1974
They Made the Land
1938
Kaleidoscope
1999
Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End
1997
Lady Gaga: Glory
2021
