Editing My Favorite Year (section)

==Production==
The film was based on an original script by Norman Steinberg.<ref>Klemesrud, Judy. [https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/14/theater/li-red-hot-and-blue.html?searchResultPosition=1 At the Movies: L.I. 'Red, Hot and Blue'] ''The New York Times'' 14 August 1981: C6.</ref>

''My Favorite Year'' was the first film directed by actor [[Richard Benjamin]], who worked as an [[NBC page]] at [[30 Rockefeller Plaza]] in 1956.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/21-nbc-pages-turned-hollywood-players-tell-all-johnny-carson-sightings-calls-president-tv-c |title=21 NBC Pages Turned Hollywood Players Tell All: Johnny Carson Sightings, Calls From the President, TV Cameos |first=Lacey |last=Rose |date=April 17, 2017 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref>

[[Cameron Mitchell (actor)|Cameron Mitchell]] recalled that he met Mel Brooks when both were having lunch at the [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] commissary. Brooks told him that ''[[Gorilla at Large]]'' (which starred Mitchell and Brooks' wife [[Anne Bancroft]]) was his favorite film and asked him if he wanted to play a [[Jimmy Hoffa]]-type character in a film that he was producing at MGM. Mitchell accepted and was cast in ''My Favorite Year'' as Karl "Boss" Rojeck.<ref>{{cite book| page=223| last=Weaver| first=Tom| chapter=Cameron Mitchell Interview| title=Double Feature Creature Attack: A Monster Merger of Two More Volumes of Classic Interviews| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=esCnTSqGtUYC&q=cameron+mitchell| publisher=McFarland| date=February 19, 2003| isbn=978-0-7864-8215-3}}</ref>