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The Ten-Year Lunch

"The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table"

1987-09-28
6.5
en 56m
DocumentaryTV Movie
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.

Director

Aviva Slesin

Executive Producer

Aviva Slesin

Editor

Donna Marino

Associate Producer

Elise Simon Goodman

Director of Photography

Don Lenzer

Associate Producer

Jill Frank

new york city journalist playwright writer woman director 1920s algonquin hotel literary lunch

Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • American Masters Pictures
  • Aviva Films
  • Thirteen

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