Peter O’Toole was well known to possess their ruling, Oscar-selected turns. Draw Linn-Baker is an effective fledgling phase star. Richard Benjamin, who had generated a respected-son splash into the “Portnoy’s Complaint” and you can “Westworld,” had several Television leading credits.
The sum of the these types of unlikely parts is the fresh zesty 1982 motion picture funny “My personal favorite Season,” starring O’Toole and you will Linn-Baker, directed because of the Benjamin and you may created by Mel Brooks. They repaid loving tribute towards the completely new golden ages of Tv on mid-20th 100 years therefore the variety implies that was the “Saturday night Live” strikes of its go out.
When Benjamin look at the script from the Norman Steinberg and you can Dennis Palumbo, he immediately turned to their spouse, actor Paula Prentiss.
The film, marking the 40th anniversary, is set into the 1954 and you can topped by O’Toole as faded however, still-glam movie idol Alan Swann, that lookin to the “Comedy Cavalcade” only to pay off their Irs personal debt.