The Ten-Year Lunch
1987
The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
- Aviva Slesin
- 56m
- September 28, 1987 · United States of America
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 28, 1987
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Thirteen,American Masters Pictures,Aviva Films
- Cast
- Cynthia Adler,Averell Harriman,Dorothy Parker,Heywood Hale Broun,Fred Gwynne,Margalo Gillmore,Ray Owens,Edna Ferber,Marc Connelly,Robert E. Sherwoodand 10 more
- Director
- Aviva Slesin
- Writer
- Peter Foges,Mary Jo Kaplan
- Producer
- Stephen Samuels,Aviva Slesin
- Cinematography
- Vic Losick,Don Lenzer,Tom Hurwitz,Jerry Pantzer,Peter Hoving,Paul N. Raimondi,Stuart Math
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- View on IMDb