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Release year: 1978

Storyline

Henry Winkler portrays an outrageously self-confident but out-of-work actor, a young man who dreams of stardom and leaves college to pursue fame and fortune.

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Directors

Carl Reiner

Writers

Cast

Henry Winkler — Andy Schmidt
Kim Darby — Mary Crawford
Gene Saks — Sidney Seltzer
William Daniels — Mr. Crawford

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Did you know

• Actor Henry Winkler sports peroxided blond hair in this movie. The name of the blond-haired ballet-costume-wearing wrestling character with a harem of girls that Andy Schmidt (Henry Winkler) creates is "The Lover" or "The Great Lover', and he is "The One And Only" of the film's title. The character and film's story was based on glamour wrestler Gorgeous George (real name George Raymond Wagner) and his career. This picture was made and released about 15 years after Gorgeous George had passed away. Winkler once commented that George had blond curls and sprayed himself in the ring with perfume: "If that doesn't shatter my Fonz image, nothing will!"

• Roddy Piper: Uncredited, as Leatherneck Joe Brady. This was Piper's debut film and TV credit.

• Actor Henry Winkler first became aware of the script for this movie when he ran into actor Dustin Hoffman in a doorway of a New York building. Hoffman talked for about three minutes about some screenplays he owned the rights to and about a year later Winkler received a copy of this film's script.

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