Man of the Century is a 1999 comedy

Comedy

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 film

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 directed by Adam Abraham and written by Abraham and Gibson Frazier. The film stars Frazier, Cara Buono

Cara Buono

Cara Buono is an American actress, screenwriter and director, probably best known for her role as Dr. Faye Miller in the fourth season of the AMC drama series Mad Men.-Early life:...

, Susan Egan

Susan Egan

Susan Egan is an American actress and singer known for her work on the Broadway stage.-Early life and career:Egan was born in Seal Beach, California. She attended Orange County High School of the Arts and UCLA. In the meantime she started her career touring with the performance group The Young...

, Dwight Ewell

Dwight Ewell

-Career:Ewell was born in Williamston, North Carolina to teenage parents. His father fought in Vietnam and served six years in the United States military while Dwight's mother took care of Dwight and his younger sister. Unhappy in her marriage, at 21 years old, Dwight's mom took the children up...

 and Anthony Rapp

Anthony Rapp

Anthony Deane Rapp is an American stage and film actor and singer best known for originating the role of Mark Cohen in the Broadway production of Rent in 1996 and later for reprising the role in the film version and the Broadway Tour of Rent in 2009...

. It is a farce

Farce

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 about the attitudes, values, and slang displayed in the popular culture

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 of the 1920s (and, to some extent, the early 1930s). Man of the Century was filmed in black and white. Its working title was "Johnny Twennies".

Characters

The main characters include:

• Johnny Twennies – (Gibson Frazier) A lovable, good-looking, fast-talking newspaper reporter whose manner is similar to that of a 1920s pulp
  Pulp magazine
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   character.
• Virginia Clemens - (Cara Buono
  Cara Buono
  Cara Buono is an American actress, screenwriter and director, probably best known for her role as Dr. Faye Miller in the fourth season of the AMC drama series Mad Men.-Early life:...
  
  ) A sweet girl who has an innocent school-girl crush on Johnny.
• Samantha Winter - (Susan Egan
  Susan Egan
  Susan Egan is an American actress and singer known for her work on the Broadway stage.-Early life and career:Egan was born in Seal Beach, California. She attended Orange County High School of the Arts and UCLA. In the meantime she started her career touring with the performance group The Young...
  
  ) Johnny's modern girlfriend.