/gNboD5cDOOFCK16Nfmb5Hskc3zu.jpg

The Ten-Year Lunch

  • September 1987
  • 56mins

  • Documentary
  • TV Movie
  • Directed by

    Aviva Slesin,

    Aviva Slesin,

    Stephen Samuels,

    Starring

    Heywood Hale Broun,

    Margalo Gillmore,

    Ruth Gordon,

    Averell Harriman

    ...

    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.