The Ten-Year Lunch

The Ten-Year Lunch(1987)

09/28/1987 (US)Documentary, TV Movie0h 56m
6.5

"The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table"

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.

Aviva Slesin

Director

Mary Jo Kaplan

Writer

Peter Foges

Writer

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“The Ten-Year Lunch” Wins Documentary Feature: 1988 Oscars

“The Ten-Year Lunch” Wins Documentary Feature: 1988 Oscars

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