My Favorite Year Movie

Movie Summary for My Favorite Year

Summary

You’ll laugh until you cry while watching this 80s movie. A show must go on minus the backstage drama.

My Favorite Year DVD

Plot

Alan Swann (played by Peter O’Toole) is scheduled to perform on a 50s talent show in the movie My Favorite Year.

When Swann shows up drunk, it isn’t what the show’s junior writer, Benjy Stone (played by Mark Linn-Baker), was expecting. Enter King Kaiser (played by Joseph Bologna), one of the other performers on the show who wants to have Swann thrown off the show. But, his longtime idol Benjy is against it and he finds himself babysitting his hero in the movie My Favorite Year.

Cast

Alan Swann - Peter O' Toole
Benjy Stone - Mark Linn-Baker
K. C. Downing - Jessica Harper
King Kaiser - Joseph Bologna
Sy Benson - Bill Macy
Belle Carroca - Lainie Kazan
Alice Miller - Anne De Salvo
Herb Lee - Basil Hoffman
Uncle Morty - Lou Jacobi
Leo Silver - Adolph Green
Alfi Bambacelli - Tony DiBenedetto
Myron Fein - George Wyner
Lil - Selma Diamond
Karl Rojeck - Cameron Mitchell
Connie - Jenny Neumann

Trivia

The character of Benjamin Stone in the film My Favorite Year was based on Mel Brooks.

Peter O’Toole took fencing lessons so he could be in shape for his fighting scenes in the movie My Favorite Year.