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The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)

The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)

TV Movie Documentary

The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table

Release Date: 1987, September 28
Directors: Aviva Slesin
Countries: United States of America
Production: American Masters Pictures, Aviva Films, Thirteen
Cast: Marshall Efron, Roberta Maxwell, Fred Gwynne, Ruth Gordon, Nat Benchley, Helen Hayes, Harpo Marx, Robert Benchley, Cynthia Adler, Averell Harriman, Heywood Hale Broun, Margalo Gillmore

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.

Keywords:

new york city woman director writer journalist 1920s playwright algonquin hotel literary lunch