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The Ten-Year Lunch
The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
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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.
Directed by Aviva Slesin
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Behind the ScenesOfficial“The Ten-Year Lunch” Wins Documentary Feature: 1988 Oscars
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Heywood Hale Broun
Himself - Host

Marc Connelly
Himself - Participant

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)

Dorothy Parker
Herself (archive footage)
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