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Film · 1987
The Ten-Year Lunch
56mDirected by Aviva Slesin
- Documentary
- TV Movie
The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
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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Cast
Heywood Hale BrounHimself - Host
Marc ConnellyHimself - Participant
Margalo GillmoreHerself - Participant
Ruth GordonHerself - Participant
Averell HarrimanHimself - Participant
Helen HayesHerself - Participant
Roberta MaxwellDorothy Parker (voice)
Marshall EfronAlexander Woollcott (voice)
Cynthia AdlerEdna Ferber (voice)
Nat BenchleyRobert Benchley (voice)
Fred GwynneGeorge S. Kaufman (voice)- Ray OwensFranklin P. Adams (voice)
Details
- Director
- Aviva Slesin
- Writer
- Peter Foges, Mary Jo Kaplan
- Cinematography
- Jerry Pantzer, Stuart Math, Tom Hurwitz
- Editor
- Donna Marino
- Producer
- Aviva Slesin
- Release
- September 28, 1987
- Runtime
- 56m
- Language
- English
- Studio
- American Masters Pictures, Aviva Films, THIRTEEN
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