The Ten-Year Lunch
The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
1987-09-28 | 56 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Heywood Hale BrounHimself - Host
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Marc ConnellyHimself - Participant
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Margalo GillmoreHerself - Participant
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Ruth GordonHerself - Participant
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Averell HarrimanHimself - Participant
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Helen HayesHerself - Participant
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Roberta MaxwellDorothy Parker (voice)
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Marshall EfronAlexander Woollcott (voice)
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Cynthia AdlerEdna Ferber (voice)
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Nat BenchleyRobert Benchley (voice)
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Fred GwynneGeorge S. Kaufman (voice)
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Alexander WoollcottHimself (archive footage)
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Dorothy ParkerHerself (archive footage)
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Edna FerberHerself (archive footage)
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Harpo MarxHimself (archive footage)
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Robert BenchleyHimself (archive footage)
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Robert E. SherwoodHimself (archive footage)
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