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- My Favorite Year is a comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin, centered around a young TV writer who must keep a flamboyant, unpredictable guest star out of trouble during a live broadcast. Starring Peter O'Toole and Mark Linn-Baker, the film captures the chaotic and humorous behind-the-scenes dynamics of a 1950s variety show.
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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.
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
Synopsis. Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker) is the junior writer on a top-rated variety/comedy live television show, in the mid 1950's. Young Benjy has a crush on a coworker, K.C. Downing (Jessica Harper), but rather than asking her for a date, he routinely tries to get her to sleep with him.
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 he...
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- Richard Benjamin
- PG
- Peter O'toole
My Favorite Year is a comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin, centered around a young TV writer who must keep a flamboyant, unpredictable guest star out of trouble during a live broadcast. Starring Peter O'Toole and Mark Linn-Baker, the film captures the chaotic and humorous behind-the-scenes dynamics of a 1950s variety show.
Overview. 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.
Mark Linn-Baker is Benjy Stone, the junior writer on the TV comedy/variety series, The King Kaiser Show and an incurable fan of Swann. Stone is commissioned to baby-sit Swann (O'Toole) after the latter has a disastrous encounter with the show's star, King Kaiser, as a result of a drinking binge.
