1987
6.5 (10 votes)
0h 56m
Official Website
Genres
Documentary
TV Movie
Production Companies
American Masters Pictures
Aviva Films
Thirteen
Aviva Films
Thirteen
The Ten-Year Lunch
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.
Key Crew
Director: Aviva Slesin
Producer: Aviva Slesin
Writer: Peter Foges, Mary Jo Kaplan
Director of Photography: Jerry Pantzer, Stuart Math, Tom Hurwitz, Don Lenzer, Vic Losick, Peter Hoving, Paul N. Raimondi
