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    The Ten-Year Lunch

    The Ten-Year Lunch

    "The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table"

    1987

    56:26

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    6.5/10 (10)

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    The Ten-Year Lunch

    Genre

    Documentary
    TV Movie

    Plot

    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

    Writers

    Mary Jo Kaplan, Peter Foges,

    Stars

    Heywood Hale Broun, Marc Connelly, Margalo Gillmore, Ruth Gordon, Averell Harriman,