The Ten-Year Lunch
1987The 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.
Acted in
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)
Ray Owens
as Franklin P. Adams (voice)
Alexander Woollcott
as Himself (archive footage)
Dorothy Parker
as Herself (archive footage)
Edna Ferber
as Herself (archive footage)
Franklin P. Adams
as Himself (archive footage)
Harpo Marx
as Himself (archive footage)
Raoul Fleischman
as Himself (archive footage)
Robert Benchley
as Himself (archive footage)
Robert E. Sherwood
as Himself (archive footage)