About the film
new york city journalist playwright writer woman director 1920s algonquin hotel literary lunch
The Ten-Year Lunch
Release Date: September 28, 1987
| Year | : | 1987 |
| Slogan | : | «» |
| Genres | : | Documentary, TV Movie |
| Production Companies | : | American Masters Pictures, Aviva Films, Thirteen |
| Director | : | Aviva Slesin |
| Producers | : | Aviva Slesin, Aviva Slesin, Jill Frank, Minda Novek, Minda Novek, Stephen Samuels, Elise Simon Goodman, Janyce Ferrara |
| Writers | : | Peter Foges, Mary Jo Kaplan |
| RunTime | : | 56 mins. |
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.
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Behind the Scenes: “The Ten-Year Lunch” Wins Documentary Feature: 1988 Oscars
Main Actors
Heywood Hale Broun
Character : Himself - Host
Marc Connelly
Character : Himself - Participant
Margalo Gillmore
Character : Herself - Participant
Ruth Gordon
Character : Herself - Participant
Averell Harriman
Character : Himself - Participant
Helen Hayes
Character : Herself - Participant
Roberta Maxwell
Character : Dorothy Parker (voice)
Marshall Efron
Character : Alexander Woollcott (voice)
Cynthia Adler
Character : Edna Ferber (voice)
Nat Benchley
Character : Robert Benchley (voice)
Fred Gwynne
Character : George S. Kaufman (voice)
Ray Owens
Character : Franklin P. Adams (voice)
Alexander Woollcott
Character : Himself (archive footage)
Dorothy Parker
Character : Herself (archive footage)
Edna Ferber
Character : Herself (archive footage)
Franklin P. Adams
Character : Himself (archive footage)
Harpo Marx
Character : Himself (archive footage)
Raoul Fleischman
Character : Himself (archive footage)
Robert Benchley
Character : Himself (archive footage)
Robert E. Sherwood
Character : Himself (archive footage)
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