The Ten-Year Lunch
“The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table”
6.5
1987
56m
DocumentaryTV 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.
Key Crew
Director
Aviva Slesin
Producers
Aviva Slesin
Writers
Mary Jo Kaplan
Peter Foges
Cinematography
Don Lenzer
Cast (20)
Heywood Hale Broun
Himself - Host
Marc Connelly
Himself - Participant
