The Ten-Year Lunch

The Ten-Year Lunch

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1987-09-28

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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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.

Released

1987-09-28

Runtime

56

Director

Aviva Slesin

Budget

$0

Revenue

$0

Genres

Documentary

TV Movie

Language

English

Production

American Masters Pictures

Aviva Films

Thirteen

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    Heywood Hale Broun

    Heywood Hale Broun
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    Marc Connelly

    Marc Connelly
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    Margalo Gillmore

    Margalo Gillmore
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    Ruth Gordon

    Ruth Gordon
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    Averell Harriman

    Averell Harriman
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    Helen Hayes

    Helen Hayes
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    Roberta Maxwell

    Roberta Maxwell
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    Marshall Efron

    Marshall Efron
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    Cynthia Adler

    Cynthia Adler
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    Nat Benchley

    Nat Benchley
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    Fred Gwynne

    Fred Gwynne
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    Ray Owens

    Ray Owens
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    Alexander Woollcott

    Alexander Woollcott
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    Dorothy Parker

    Dorothy Parker
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    Edna Ferber

    Edna Ferber
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    Franklin P. Adams

    Franklin P. Adams
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    Harpo Marx

    Harpo Marx
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    Raoul Fleischman

    Raoul Fleischman
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    Robert Benchley

    Robert Benchley
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    Robert E. Sherwood

    Robert E. Sherwood