The Ten-Year Lunch
“The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table”
6.5(10 votes)
September 28, 1987
56m
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.
Director
Aviva SlesinWriters
Mary Jo Kaplan, Peter Foges
