The Ten-Year Lunch
Aviva Slesin1987-09-28
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 |