My Favorite Year (1982)
The year the dreams came true.
92 min
Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.
- Release date
- October 1, 1982
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $7,900,000
- Box office
- $20,123,620
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Trailer
Cast
- Peter O'Toole as Alan Swann
- Mark Linn-Baker as Benjy Stone
- Jessica Harper as K.C. Downing
- Joseph Bologna as King Kaiser
- Bill Macy as Sy Benson
- Lainie Kazan as Belle Steinberg Carroca
- Anne DeSalvo as Alice Miller
- Basil Hoffman as Herb Lee
- Lou Jacobi as Uncle Morty Kronsky
- Adolph Green as Leo Silver
- Tony DiBenedetto as Alfie Bumbacelli
- George Wyner as Myron Fein
- Selma Diamond as Lil
- Cameron Mitchell as Karl Rojeck
- Jenny Neumann as Connie
- Corinne Bohrer as Bonnie
- George Marshall Ruge as Lord Drummond / Featured Player
- Amanda Horan Kennedy as Lady Eleanor
- John Welsh as Cubby Brown
- Richard Brestoff as Stage Manager / Featured Player
- Jed Mills as Member #1 / Featured Player
- Ted Grossman as Harris / Featured Player
- Teresa Ganzel as Dumpling / Featured Player
- Philip Bruns as Fed. Marshal Holt / Featured Player
- Archie Hahn as Delivery Boy / Featured Player
- Fox Harris as Curt / Featured Player
Crew
- Richard Benjamin · Director
- Norman Steinberg · Writer
- Dennis Palumbo · Writer
- Michael Gruskoff · Producer
- Ralph Burns · Composer
- Gerald Hirschfeld · Cinematographer
- Richard Chew · Editor
- Charles Rosen · Production designer