The Ten Year Lunch
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Director Aviva Slesin Duration Country United States | 7.2/10 IMDb Genre Documentary, Biography, History Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Peter Foges , Mary Jo Kaplan Release date March 1987 (1987-03) Writers Mary Jo Kaplan, Peter Foges Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Informational Programming Cast Heywood Hale Broun , Ruth Gordon , Helen Hayes , Margalo Gill , W Averell Harriman Similar movies Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994), Brooklyn Bridge (1981), Before Stonewall (1984), Resident Alien (1990), The Statue of Liberty (1985) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The ten year lunch wins documentary feature 1988 oscars
The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table is a 1987 American documentary film about the Algonquin Round Table, a floating group of writers and actors in the "Roaring Twenties" in New York City, which included great names such as Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Edna Ferber, Marc Connelly, Harold Ross and Harpo Marx. It was produced and directed by Aviva Slesin and narrated by Heywood Hale Broun.
The title refers to the fact that the members of the Round Table met over lunch at the Algonquin Hotel from 1919 until roughly 1929. The film shows how the group drifted apart once the 1920s ended, as Hollywood beckoned for some and as they grew older.
In 1987, the film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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