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The Ten-Year Lunch

The Ten-Year Lunch

The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table

1987 · 56 min · ★ 6.5 · Documentary, TV 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.

Directed by Aviva Slesin · Written by Mary Jo Kaplan

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