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My Favorite Year is a 1982 American comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Richard Benjamin and written by Norman Steinberg and Dennis Palumbo from a story written by Palumbo. The film tells the story of a young comedy writer [2] and stars Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, and Joseph Bologna.
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.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Richard Benjamin
- 1982-10-08
My Favorite Year (1982) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Fledgling comic Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker) can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann (Peter O'Toole), gets booked to appear on the variety show ...
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- Richard Benjamin
- PG
- Peter O'toole
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Alan Swann ( Peter O'Toole ), aging movie idol, former star of swashbucklers, a womanizer and an alcoholic, is to be this week's guest star. When he arrives drunk, the show's headliner, King Kaiser ( Joseph Bologna ), wants to cancel Swann's appearance.
My Favorite Year (1982) -- (Movie Clip) Clarence Duffy An interlude in Central Park, TV writer Benji (Mark Linn-Baker) shares secrets with errant movie star Alan Swann (Peter O'Toole) whom he's minding, in Richard Benjamin's My Favorite Year, 1982.