

The year the dreams came true.
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.
ComedyDramanew york cityalcoholismlive televisionacting1950s
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Cast
- Peter O'TooleAlan Swann
- Mark Linn-BakerBenjy Stone
- Jessica HarperK.C. Downing
- Joseph BolognaKing Kaiser
- Bill MacySy Benson
- Lainie KazanBelle Carroca
- Anne DeSalvoAlice Miller
- Basil HoffmanHerb Lee
- Lou JacobiUncle Morty
- Adolph GreenLeo Silver
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- Richard BenjaminDirector
- Norman SteinbergScreenplay
- Dennis PalumboScreenplay
- Gerald HirschfeldDirector of Photography
- Ralph BurnsOriginal Music Composer
- Richard ChewEditor
- Joel ChernoffProducer
- Michael GruskoffProducer
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