The Ten-Year Lunch

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.

• Aviva SlesinDirector
• Mary Jo KaplanWriter
• Peter FogesWriter

• Heywood Hale BrounHimself - Host
• Marc ConnellyHimself - Participant
• Margalo GillmoreHerself - Participant
• Ruth GordonHerself - Participant
• Averell HarrimanHimself - Participant
• Helen HayesHerself - Participant
• Roberta MaxwellDorothy Parker (voice)
• Marshall EfronAlexander Woollcott (voice)
• Cynthia AdlerEdna Ferber (voice)
• Nat BenchleyRobert Benchley (voice)
• Fred GwynneGeorge S. Kaufman (voice)
• Ray OwensFranklin P. Adams (voice)