The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)

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.

Synopsis

Le film retrace l'histoire de l'Algonquin Round Table, un groupe d'écrivains et d'acteurs à qui se réunissaient à l'Hôtel Algonquin à New York dans les années 1920, comprenant des personnalités telles que Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Edna Ferber, Marc Connelly, Harold Ross et Harpo Marx.

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