The Ten-Year Lunch

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.

Director: Aviva Slesin

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)