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1 October 1982 (USA) morePlot:
A dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(4 articles)
Scenes We Love: My Favorite Year (From Cinematical. 10 April 2009, 5:03 PM, PDT)
They Never Won an Academy Award
(From Get The Big Picture. 19 February 2009, 5:55 PM, PST)
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A humane, funny film with a great heart. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Peter O'Toole | ... | Alan Swann | |
| Mark Linn-Baker | ... | Benjy Stone | |
| Jessica Harper | ... | K. C. Downing | |
| Joseph Bologna | ... | King Kaiser | |
| Bill Macy | ... | Sy Benson | |
| Lainie Kazan | ... | Belle Carroca | |
| Anne De Salvo | ... | Alice Miller | |
| Basil Hoffman | ... | Herb Lee | |
| Lou Jacobi | ... | Uncle Morty | |
| Adolph Green | ... | Leo Silver | |
| Tony DiBenedetto | ... | Alfi Bambacelli | |
| George Wyner | ... | Myron Fein | |
| Selma Diamond | ... | Lil | |
| Cameron Mitchell | ... | Karl Rojeck | |
| Jenny Neumann | ... | Connie |
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Peter O'Toole talked the producers into paying for a fencing instructor to get him in shape for the fight sequence. moreGoofs:
Anachronisms: The cameras in the Comedy Cavalcade studio are RCA TK-14s, which were not introduced until the late 1950s. (NBC would have used RCA TK-30, TK-10 or TK-11 cameras for black-and-white shows at this time.) In another scene a Marconi Mark IV camera is being pushed through a hallway; this camera also was not available until the late 1950s. moreQuotes:
Uncle Morty: So, Mr. Swann, we've spent time, we've broken bread together. I feel I know you.Swann: Morty, I feel I know you even better.
Uncle Morty: So you won't mind if I ask you a personal question.
Benjy Stone: Uncle Morty!
Uncle Morty: What's the matter, you think I was born in Minsk a Pinsk?
Swann: Morty, ask your question.
Uncle Morty: That paternity rap a few years ago - did you shtup her?
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Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Joan Rivers/Musical Youth (#8.17)" (1983) moreSoundtrack:
How High the Moon moreFAQ
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| The cast of My Favorite Year | houndtang75 |
| Aidan Quinn? | imcollette |
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I was born in 1958, so I never saw Your Show of Shows, and needless to say, I never knew there was a famous or infamous incident involving one of my boyhood idols, a very drunk Errol Flynn.Dennis Palumbo, in what is ( sadly) apparently his only effort as a script writer, has taken this incident and woven a very human and very funny film from it. Benjamin's direction is excellent, and Peter O'Toole ( playing, it must be said, a variant of himself), is wonderful, as is most of the rest of the cast. Benjamin shows a sure comic touch in his debut. In short, like Quiz Show, one of the best movies about the fifties, and one of the best movies about the early days of television.