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In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Janet Maslin called My Favorite Year "a funny and good-natured comedy" and wrote that director Richard Benjamin "works in a steady, affable style that is occasionally inspired, always snappy and never less than amusing."
- The movie “My Favorite Year” was released in 1982.
- It is a comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin.
- The screenplay was written by Norman Steinberg.
- The film stars Peter O’Toole, Jessica Harper, and Mark Linn-Baker.
The Meaning Behind The Song: My Favorite Year by Michael Feinstein. Introduction. I first heard the beautiful melody of “My Favorite Year” by Michael Feinstein on a quiet Sunday afternoon. The soft piano and heartfelt lyrics immediately drew me in, evoking a sense of nostalgia and longing.
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Apr 17, 2021 · It has always been my belief that The Martha Raye Show was the real inspiration for My Favorite Year and O’Toole was borrowing a little Barrymore here and there but mostly was the spirit of Errol Flynn. In the The Martha Ray Show there is a Pirate skit and Errol is sweating profusely as it ends.
Oct 1, 1982 · At the start of ''My Favorite Year,'' which opens today at Loews Tower East and other theaters, Peter O'Toole is playing the Errol Flynn-like Alan Swann with a ravaged, sloshed manner that looks ...
- Richard Benjamin
Oct 8, 1982 · With Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna. An aging, dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show in 1954, and a young comedy writer is tasked with the thankless job of keeping him ready and sober for the broadcast.
Although Brooks maintains that no real interaction took place with Flynn, the essential premise of the story was inspiration enough for writer Dennis Palumbo (who collaborated on the screenplay with Norman Steinberg). To their great credit, the writers delivered a script with much comedy and not a little sentimentality for a bygone generation.
