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24 unusual facts about Woody Allen


18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival

A selection of nine internationally acclaimed films, including the latest from American director Woody Allen.

Anne Sinclair

Although primarily focused on politics, her show also included celebrities such as Madonna, Sharon Stone, Paul McCartney, Woody Allen, and George Soros.

Ashley Madekwe

Madekwe landed her first motion picture in the 2007 Woody Allen film Cassandra's Dream, opposite Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor.

Candy Loving

Loving appeared in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980), with only the walk-on scene at the end.

Cynthia Gibb

Woody Allen saw her in one of those magazines and cast her in her first film role in his 1980 movie Stardust Memories.

David Paul West

Other stage work includes Axel in Woody Allen's play Don’t Drink The Water, David in Matt Ian Kelly's However Do You Want Me at the Hen and Chickens (City Lights Theatre Company, 2004), and Kevin in You Couldn't Make It Up at the Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh and the New End Theatre, Hampstead.

Ghislain Cloquet

He also worked with several non-French directors, most notably Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, and Arthur Penn (Four Friends).

Josh Weller

Weller describes his music as pop, and sites his influences as Chet Baker, Randy Newman, Paul Simon, Woody Allen, Richard Pryor and De La Soul.

Lizzie Miles

Woody Allen included her version of "A Good Man is Hard to Find" on the soundtrack of his 2013 film Blue Jasmine.

Maury Muehleisen

The resulting commercial success of the music launched Croce and Muehleisen on 18 months of frequent touring, both in the United States and abroad; seven national television appearances, including The Tonight Show, American Bandstand, The Dick Cavett Show, and the Helen Reddy Show; as an opening act for Randy Newman, Woody Allen, and Loggins and Messina; and numerous radio interviews.

Mickey Rose

A lifelong friend of Woody Allen, the two boys met in high school, and later co-wrote material for Allen's stand-up routines, and several of his early motion pictures.

Moran's Oyster Cottage

In modern times, it has hosted many notables and celebrities, including Julia Roberts, Pierce Brosnan, Roger Moore, Woody Allen and the Emperor and Empress of Japan.

Morty Gunty

Gunty appeared on Ed Sullivan February 23, 1964, following The Beatles (3rd appearance) He appeared as himself in the Woody Allen film Broadway Danny Rose.

Philip Glenister

Glenister had a small role (credited as 'Poker Friend') in Woody Allen's You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger in 2010 and plays Charles Forestier in a 2011 feature film of Guy de Maupassant's Bel Ami.

Richard Archer

In 2006 there was a story generated by the media that Archer was having a relationship with Scarlett Johansson while she was filming Woody Allen movie Scoop in London.

Robert N. Chatigny

1) that Chatigny served as co-counsel for director Woody Allen when he unsuccessfully complained against a prosecutor who had publicly stated he had probable cause grounds for Allen's reportedly abusing a minor stepchild; 2) that Judge Chatigny was reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2001 "when the judge tried to rule against one aspect of his state's version of a Megan's Law sex-offender registry";

Roger Ashton-Griffiths

He has appeared in numerous high-profile films, including Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm and Brazil, A Knight's Tale, Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, Roman Polanski's Pirates, Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and Olivier Dahan's Grace of Monaco.

Shtick Shift

To contrast the older approach with the newer approach, Weinstein gives examples of the comedy of previous generations of comedians such as Gertrude Berg, Woody Allen, Sid Caesar, and Mel Brooks.

Smoking in India

Woody Allen refused to release his film Blue Jasmine in India because he objected to anti-tobacco ads that the Indian government requires cinemas to play before and during movies that feature scenes with characters smoking.

Tech noir

Where Altman's subversion of the film noir mythos was so irreverent as to anger many contemporary critics, around the same time Woody Allen was paying affectionate, at points idolatrous homage to the classic mode with Play It Again, Sam (1972).

The Honeydrips

The track "Fall From A Height" from Here Comes The Future samples quotes from Annie Hall, when the little Woody Allen talks about the expansion of the universe, and Rebel Without a Cause.

The Jerk

There was a 1984 TV movie sequel The Jerk, Too, starring Mark Blankfield as Navin (the Steve Martin role in the original), and it co-starred Woody Allen's one-time girlfriend Stacey Nelkin.

Vinayak Chakravorty

He counts Charles Chaplin, Satyajit Ray, Woody Allen, Krzysztof Kieslowski and the Coen Brothers as directors whose works he loves to watch again and again.

Vittorio Hösle

(2) Hösle’s scholarly and historical studies span a broad range of topics, including Greek tragedy, Plato, Giambattista Vico, G. W. F. Hegel, aesthetics, sociobiology, ancient mathematics, the comedy of Woody Allen, the philosophical dialogue, and the philosophies of history and of natural science.


Alisa Lepselter

Since Sweet and Lowdown (1999), she has edited all of Woody Allen's films; she succeeded Susan E. Morse, who edited Allen's films for the previous 20 years.

Allegra Coleman

In a parody of celebrity profiles, the article described Coleman's role an upcoming movie with Woody Allen, her tempestuous relationship with David Schwimmer (including a scandal involving nude photographs supposedly taken by paparazzi) and her friendship with Deepak Chopra.

Brewing Up with Billy Bragg

The cover of the original album has the subtitle "A Puckish Satire On Contemporary Mores," a quote from the Woody Allen film Love and Death, in which Allen's character reviews an army play presented to Russian soldiers to prevent them from becoming infected with venereal diseases while at war.

Cafe Wha?

Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, The Velvet Underground, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, Kool and the Gang, Peter, Paul & Mary, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, and many others all began their careers at the Wha?

Cole Palen

Palen was associated with several movies, most notably in 1983, when he worked as a stunt double for Woody Allen in the film Zelig.

Cross-cultural

However, there is no clear reason why, for example, Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America or even Woody Allen's Annie Hall (in which the protagonist experiences culture shock after traveling to Los Angeles from New York City) could not be considered cross-cultural works.

Enrico Banducci

Banducci operated the hungry i nightclub in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, where he launched the careers of Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Bill Cosby, Jonathan Winters, and Barbra Streisand, and featured Woody Allen and Dick Cavett before they were well-known, as well as countless folk singers.

Esplanade Zagreb Hotel

Many world famous personalities have stayed there, including: Josephine Baker, Charles Lindberg, Orson Welles, Vivien Leigh, Alfred Hitchcock, Leonid Brezhnev, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Andrew Dickson, Louis Armstrong, Francis Ford Coppola, Queen Elizabeth II, Ella Fitzgerald, Richard Nixon, Pele, Catherine Deneuve, Tina Turner, Samantha Fox, Nelson Piquet, Woody Allen, Garry Kasparov, and Pierce Brosnan.

Frederique van der Wal

In 2003, Van der Wal appeared in a stage production of The Vagina Monologues (Washington D.C.), and has performed in feature films by acclaimed directors Barry Sonnenfeld ("The Wild, Wild West"), Woody Allen ("Celebrity"), James Toback ("Two Girls & A Guy") and Wim Wenders.

Howard Alden

He taught actor Sean Penn to convincingly mime playing guitar for his role as the legendary (but fictional) jazz guitarist "Emmett Ray" in the Woody Allen film Sweet and Lowdown.

Alden recorded the guitar performances for Sean Penn's character "Emmet Ray" in the 1999 Woody Allen film Sweet and Lowdown, and also taught Penn how to mime the performances for the film.

Jerry Winsett

Jerry Winsett (born July 19, 1950) is an actor, writer and singer who has appeared in numerous television shows including Coach, Mr. Belvedere, It’s Garry Shandling's Show and Newhart as well as such films as The Chosen, One Crazy Summer, Ragtime, and Woody Allen’s Radio Days.

Jodie Markell

As an actress, she has worked with theater directors such as John Patrick Shanley, John Malkovich, and Gary Sinise; film directors such as Woody Allen, Jim Jarmusch, and Barry Levinson; starred at Lincoln Center, The Public and Steppenwolf Theatre Company; and won an Obie.

John L. Wasserman

He counted Woody Allen, Joan Baez, poet Michael McClure, Clint Eastwood, Lily Tomlin, Bill Graham and numerous other celebrities among his friends.

Lee Yoon-ki

Other influences are Robert Altman’s earlier works, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and other American independent films from the 70s and 80s, including the Coen brothersBlood Simple.

Leo Steiner

Under the management of Parker and Steiner, the deli became known nationwide, attracting celebrities such as Woody Allen, Jackie Mason and Henny Youngman, and opened branch locations in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Secaucus, New Jersey and Tysons Corner, Virginia.

Louise DuArt: The Mouth That Roared

Louise DuArt: The Mouth That Roared is a 1989 Showtime special featuring Louise DuArt's spot-on impersonations of Woody Allen, Dr. Ruth, Carol Burnett, Barbra Streisand, Cher, Tammy Faye Bakker, George Burns, Gracie Allen and many more.

Her guests include Barbara Walters (who has a clip of an interview with Tammy Faye Bakker), George Burns (who shows a clip of he and Gracie in a performance), Woody Allen (who has a clip of himself in therapy with Dr. Ruth) and Joan Rivers.

Martin Bregman

Building relationships with investors such as New York real estate magnate Lew Rudin, Bregman moved successfully into personal management, eventually representing such stars as Al Pacino, Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda and Bette Midler.

Martin Poll

His credits included two films loosely based on Russian and Japanese novels: Love and Death (as executive producer), which was based on a Russian novel and directed by Woody Allen in 1975, and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea in 1976, which was based on a Yukio Mishima novel.

Noble Sissle

His rendition of the song "Viper Mad" was included in the Woody Allen film Sweet and Lowdown.

One Hundred Years of Evil

Erik Eger, Magnus Oliv and Joacim Starander were inspired by films including Zelig by director Woody Allen and F for Fake by filmmaker Orson Welles.

Richard Brick

As a producer, Brick is best known for his three pictures with Woody Allen: Deconstructing Harry, Celebrity and Sweet and Lowdown.

Smiles of a Summer Night

The film's plot—which involves switching partners on a summer night—has been adapted many times, most notably as the theatrical musical, A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler and Harold Prince, which opened on Broadway in 1973, and as Woody Allen's film A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982).

The Unforgiving Sounds of Maow

The album's best-known song, "Ms. Lefevre", is a silly romp celebrating the character "Renee Lefebvre" from Woody Allen's movie What's New, Pussycat? The album also includes covers of songs by Wanda Jackson ("Mean Mean Mean") and Nancy Sinatra ("How Does That Grab You?").

Valley Music Theater

Among the performers who appeared at the Valley Music Theater were Sammy Davis Jr., Johnny Carson, Don Rickles, Woody Allen, Ray Charles, Art Linkletter, Robert Goulet, Mitzi Gaynor, Ike & Tina Turner, Peter, Paul & Mary, B.B. King, Lou Rawls, Three Dog Night, Jim Croce, and the Spiral Staircase.

Windsor Arms Hotel

The hotel has been known to be frequented by many celebrities such as Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Woody Allen, Richard Burton, and, more recently, Richard Gere, Britney Spears and Tina Turner.