The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)
56m
Running Time
September 28, 1987Release Date
The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)
56m
Running Time
September 28, 1987Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Heywood Hale Broun
Self - Host
Marc Connelly
Self
Margalo Gillmore
Self
Ruth Gordon
Self
Aviva Slesin
Director
Roberta Maxwell
Dorothy Parker (voice)
Peter Foges
Writer
Marshall Efron
Alexander Woollcott (voice)
Mary Jo Kaplan
Writer
Cynthia Adler
Edna Ferber (voice)
Donna Marino
Editor
Averell Harriman
Self
Nat Benchley
Robert Benchley (voice)
Helen Hayes
Self
Fred Gwynne
George S. Kaufman (voice)
Ray Owens
Franklin P. Adams (voice)
Alexander Woollcott
Himself (archive footage)
Dorothy Parker
Herself (archive footage)
Edna Ferber
Herself (archive footage)
Franklin P. Adams
Himself (archive footage)
Harpo Marx
Himself (archive footage)
Raoul Fleischman
Himself (archive footage)
Robert Benchley
Himself (archive footage)
Robert E. Sherwood
Himself (archive footage)
Don Lenzer
Director of Photography
Tom Hurwitz
Director of Photography
Robert Maier
Sound Recordist
Vic Losick
Director of Photography
George Griffin
Animation
Judy Karp
Sound Recordist
Morning Slayter
Sound Mixer / Sound Recordist
Jill Frank
Associate Producer
Stuart Math
Director of Photography
Minda Novek
Associate Producer / Researcher
Jerry Pantzer
Director of Photography
Melissa Hacker
Assistant Sound Editor
Stephen Samuels
Executive Producer
Peter Miller
Sound Recordist
Elise Simon Goodman
Associate Producer
Peter Hoving
Director of Photography
Paul N. Raimondi
Director of Photography
Larry Provost
Sound Recordist
Barbara Zahm
Sound Recordist
Fischer White
Animation
Janyce Ferrara
Researcher
Brad Fuller
Sound Editor
Terese Nehrbauer
Assistant Sound Editor
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 28, 1987
StatusReleased
Running Time56m
Filming LocationsNew York City, United States of America
Genres
Wiki.
The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table is a 1987 American documentary film by Aviva Slesin.