The Ten-Year Lunch
Aviva Slesin1987-09-28
The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
6.4
56 min
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
| Name | Character | Team | |
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Heywood Hale Broun | Himself - Host | Unowned |
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Marc Connelly | Himself - Participant | Unowned |
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Margalo Gillmore | Herself - Participant | Unowned |
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Ruth Gordon | Herself - Participant | Unowned |
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Averell Harriman | Himself - Participant | Unowned |
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Helen Hayes | Herself - Participant | Unowned |
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Roberta Maxwell | Dorothy Parker (voice) | Unowned |
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Marshall Efron | Alexander Woollcott (voice) | Unowned |
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Cynthia Adler | Edna Ferber (voice) | Unowned |
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Nat Benchley | Robert Benchley (voice) | Unowned |
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Fred Gwynne | George S. Kaufman (voice) | Unowned |
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Ray Owens | Franklin P. Adams (voice) | Unowned |
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Alexander Woollcott | Himself (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Dorothy Parker | Herself (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Edna Ferber | Herself (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Franklin P. Adams | Himself (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Harpo Marx | Himself (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Raoul Fleischman | Himself (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Robert Benchley | Himself (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Robert E. Sherwood | Himself (archive footage) | Unowned |