The Ten-Year Lunch

The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table

The Ten-Year Lunch

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TV Movie|

6/10

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.

Heywood Hale Broun

Marc Connelly

Margalo Gillmore

Ruth Gordon

Averell Harriman

Helen Hayes

Roberta Maxwell

Marshall Efron

Cynthia Adler

Nat Benchley

Fred Gwynne

Ray Owens

Alexander Woollcott

Dorothy Parker

Edna Ferber

Franklin P. Adams

Harpo Marx

Raoul Fleischman

Robert Benchley

Robert E. Sherwood