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.
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Peter O'Toole as Alan Swann
Mark Linn-Baker as Benjy Stone
Jessica Harper as K.C. Downing
Joseph Bologna as King Kaiser
Bill Macy as Sy Benson
Lainie Kazan as Belle Carroca
Anne DeSalvo as Alice Miller
Basil Hoffman as Herb Lee
Lou Jacobi as Uncle Morty
Adolph Green as Leo Silver
Tony DiBenedetto as Alfie Bumbacelli
George Wyner as Myron Fein
Selma Diamond as Lil
Cameron Mitchell as Karl Rojeck
Jenny Neumann as Connie
Corinne Bohrer as Bonnie
George Marshall Ruge as Lord Drummond / Featured Player
Amanda Horan Kennedy as Lady Eleanor
John Welsh as Cubby Brown
Richard Brestoff as Stage Manager / Featured Player
Jed Mills as Member #1 / Featured Player
Ted Grossman as Harris / Featured Player
Teresa Ganzel as Dumpling / Featured Player
Philip Bruns as Fed. Marshal Holt / Featured Player
Archie Hahn as Delivery Boy / Featured Player
Karen Haber as Vivian / Featured Player
Priscilla Kovary as Priscilla
Eleanor C. Heutschy as Gossip Columnist
Peter Eastman as Maitre D'
Fox Harris as Curt / Featured Player
Rieneke as Andrea
Howard George as Artie / Featured Player
Bob Windsor as Alvin Horn / Featured Player
Gloria Stuart as Mrs. Horn
Clyde McLeod as Club Dancer
Harry Bill Roberts as Orchestra Leader
Ramon Sison as Rookie Carroca / Featured Player
Annette Robyns as Sadie
Pearl Shear as Mrs. Kessler
Stanley Brock as Mr. Berkowitz
Martin Garner as Mr. Cantor
John Medici as Scalfoni
Robert G. Denison as Stockbroker #1 / Featured Player
John Christy Ewing as Stockbroker #2 / Featured Player
Vincent Sardi Jr. as Policeman
Cady McClain as Tess
Norman Steinberg as Sandy
Richard Warwick as Technical Director
Rex Benson as Makeup Man
Denver Mattson as Thug #1
George Fisher as Thug #2
Bob Terhune as Thug #3
Nick Dimitri as Thug #4
Phil Adams as Stagehand #1
Richard E. Butler as Stagehand #2
Vince Brocato as Walla Walla (voice)
Lana Clarkson as Girl in Old Gold Cigarette Pack
David Armstrong as Club Patron
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