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My Favorite Year

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.

1982 |1h 32m |  Comedy, Drama

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Cast

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Peter O'Toole

Alan Swann

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Mark Linn-Baker

Benjy Stone

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Jessica Harper

K.C. Downing

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Joseph Bologna

King Kaiser

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Bill Macy

Sy Benson

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Lainie Kazan

Belle Carroca

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Anne DeSalvo

Alice Miller

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Basil Hoffman

Herb Lee

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Lou Jacobi

Uncle Morty

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Tony DiBenedetto

Alfie Bumbacelli

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George Wyner

Myron Fein

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Selma Diamond

Lil

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Cameron Mitchell

Karl Rojeck

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Jenny Neumann

Connie

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Corinne Bohrer

Bonnie

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Amanda Horan Kennedy

Lady Eleanor

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John Welsh

Cubby Brown

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Richard Brestoff

Stage Manager / Featured Player

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Jed Mills

Member #1 / Featured Player

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Ted Grossman

Harris / Featured Player

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Teresa Ganzel

Dumpling / Featured Player

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Philip Bruns

Fed. Marshal Holt / Featured Player

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Archie Hahn

Delivery Boy / Featured Player

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Gloria Stuart

Mrs. Horn

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Stanley Brock

Mr. Berkowitz

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Martin Garner

Mr. Cantor

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John Medici

Scalfoni

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Richard Warwick

Technical Director

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Nick Dimitri

Thug #4

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Lana Clarkson

Girl in Old Gold Cigarette Pack

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Status

Released

Language

English

Budget

$7,900,000.00

Revenue

$20,123,620.00