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The Ten-Year Lunch

The Ten-Year Lunch

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 28, 1987

Runtime

0h 56m

Genres

Documentary, TV Movie

User Score

64%

Original Title

The Ten-Year Lunch

Production Companies

American Masters Pictures, Aviva Films, Thirteen

Director

Aviva Slesin

Description

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.