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.
Peter O'Toole
Mark Linn-Baker
Jessica Harper
Joseph Bologna
Bill Macy
Lainie Kazan
Anne DeSalvo
Basil Hoffman
Lou Jacobi
Adolph Green
Tony DiBenedetto
George Wyner
Selma Diamond
Cameron Mitchell
Jenny Neumann
Corinne Bohrer
George Marshall Ruge
Amanda Horan Kennedy
John Welsh
Richard Brestoff
Jed Mills
Ted Grossman
Teresa Ganzel
Philip Bruns
Archie Hahn
Karen Haber
Priscilla Kovary
Eleanor C. Heutschy
Peter Eastman
Fox Harris
Rieneke
Howard George
Bob Windsor
Gloria Stuart
Clyde McLeod
Harry Bill Roberts
Ramon Sison
Annette Robyns
Pearl Shear
Stanley Brock
Martin Garner
John Medici
Robert G. Denison
John Christy Ewing
Vincent Sardi Jr.
Cady McClain
Norman Steinberg
Richard Warwick
Rex Benson
Denver Mattson
George Fisher
Bob Terhune
Nick Dimitri
Phil Adams
Richard E. Butler
Vince Brocato
Lana Clarkson
David Armstrong