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The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)

6.5 | Sep 28, 1987 (US) | Documentary, TV Movie | 00:56

The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table

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.

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Heywood Hale Broun
Himself - Host
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Marc Connelly
Himself - Participant
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Margalo Gillmore
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Ruth Gordon
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Averell Harriman
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Helen Hayes
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Roberta Maxwell
Dorothy Parker (voice)
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Marshall Efron
Alexander Woollcott (voice)
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Cynthia Adler
Edna Ferber (voice)
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Nat Benchley
Robert Benchley (voice)