1987· 56 min
The Ten-Year Lunch
The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
Documentary
6.5 / 10TMDB Score
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.
Director: Aviva Slesin
Cast: Heywood Hale Broun, Marc Connelly, Margalo Gillmore, Ruth Gordon, Averell Harriman
Tags
Algonquin Round Tabledorothy parkerquotablevicious circlewitty
