The Ten-Year Lunch
The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
Sinopse
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.
- 6.5
- 1987
- Released
- 0h 56m
Heywood Hale Broun
Himself - Host
Margalo Gillmore
Herself - Participant
Ruth Gordon
Herself - Participant
Averell Harriman
Himself - Participant
Helen Hayes
Herself - Participant
Roberta Maxwell
Dorothy Parker (voice)
Marshall Efron
Alexander Woollcott (voice)
Cynthia Adler
Edna Ferber (voice)
Nat Benchley
Robert Benchley (voice)
Fred Gwynne
George S. Kaufman (voice)
Ray Owens
Franklin P. Adams (voice)
Alexander Woollcott
Himself (archive footage)Franklin P. Adams
Himself (archive footage)
Harpo Marx
Himself (archive footage)Raoul Fleischman
Himself (archive footage)
Robert Benchley
Himself (archive footage)
Status
Released
Original Language
en
Keywords
- #new york city
- #journalist
- #playwright
- #writer
- #woman director
- #1920s
- #algonquin hotel
- #literary lunch
