Woody Allen

For the musician with a similar name, see Hoodie Allen.

Heywood WoodyAllen (bornAllan StewartKonigs-berg,[1] December 1, 1935) is an American actor, writer,director, comedian and playwright, whose career spansmore than 50 years.He worked as a comedy writer in the 1950s, writing jokesand scripts for television and publishing several booksof short humor pieces. In the early 1960s, Allen beganperforming as a stand-up comedian, emphasizing mono-logues rather than traditional jokes. As a comedian, hedeveloped the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fret-ful nebbish, which he maintains is quite dierent fromhis real-life personality.[2] In 2004, Comedy Central[3]ranked Allen in fourth place on a list of the 100 great-est stand-up comedians, while a UK survey ranked Allenas the third greatest comedian.[4]

By the mid-1960s Allen was writing and directing lms,rst specializing in slapstick comedies before moving intodramatic material inuenced by European art cinemaduring the 1970s, and alternating between comedies anddramas to the present. He is often identied as part of theNew Hollywood wave of lmmakers of the mid-1960s tolate 1970s.[5] Allen often stars in his lms, typically in thepersona he developed as a standup. Some best-knownof his over 40 lms are Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan(1979), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and Midnight inParis (2011). Critic Roger Ebert described Allen as atreasure of the cinema.[6]

Allen has been nominated 24 times and won fourAcademy Awards: three for Best Original Screenplay andone for Best Director (Annie Hall). He has more screen-writing Academy Award nominations than any otherwriter, and has won nine British Academy of Film andTelevision Arts Awards. Allen performs regularly as ajazz clarinetist at small venues in Manhattan.[7] In 2011,PBS televised the lm biography, Woody Allen: A Docu-mentary, on the American Masters TV series.[8]

1 Early lifeAllen was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg[1] in theBronx and raised in Brooklyn, New York, the son ofNettie (born Cherry; November 8, 1906 January 27,2002), a bookkeeper at her familys delicatessen, andMartin Konigsberg (December 25, 1900 January 8,2001),[9] a jewelry engraver and waiter.[10] His family

Allen as a high school senior, 1953

was Ashkenazi Jewish; his grandparents immigrated fromRussia and Austria, and spoke Yiddish, Hebrew, andGerman.[11][12] Both parents were born and raised onthe Lower East Side of Manhattan.[11] Allen has a sis-ter, Letty, who was born in 1943; they were raised inMidwood, Brooklyn.[13]

His childhood was not particularly happy: his parentsdid not get along, and he had a rocky relationship withhis stern, temperamental mother.[14] Allen spoke Ger-man quite a bit in his early years.[15] He would later jokethat when he was young he was often sent to inter-faithsummer camps, where he was savagely beaten by chil-dren of all races and creeds.[16] While attending Hebrewschool for eight years, he went to Public School 99 (nowthe Isaac Asimov School for Science and Literature)[17]and to Midwood High School.[18] At that time, he lived inan apartment at 968 East 14th Street.[19] Unlike his comicpersona, he was more interested in baseball than schooland his strong arms ensured he was rst to be picked for ateam.[20][21] He impressed students with his extraordinarytalent at card and magic tricks.[16]

To raise money he wrote jokes (or gags) for agent DavidO. Alber, who sold them to newspaper columnists. Ac-

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cording to Allen, his rst published joke read: WoodyAllen says he ate at a restaurant that had O.P.S. prices over peoples salaries.[22] He began to call himselfWoody Allen. At the age of 17, he legally changedhis name to Heywood Allen.[23] He was then earningmore than both parents combined.[20] After high school,he attended New York University, studying communi-cation and lm. He later briey attended City Col-lege of New York and soon unked out.[24] Later, helearned via self-study rather than in the classroom.[21]He eventually taught at The New School. He also stud-ied with writing teacher Lajos Egri.[21]p.74 His status be-fore the Selective Service System was 4-F, a medicaldeferment,[25] although he later claimed his actual statuswas 4-P, hostage.[26]

2 Career

2.1 Comedy writerAllen began writing short jokes when he was fteen,[27]and the following year began sending them to variousBroadway writers to see if they'd be interested in buy-ing any. He also began going by the name WoodyAllen.[28]:539 One of those writers was Abe Burrows,coauthor of Guys and Dolls, who wrote, Wow! His stuwas dazzling. Burrows then wrote Allen letters of intro-duction to Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers, and Peter Lind Hayes,who immediately sent Allen a check for just the jokesBurrows included as samples.[28]:541

As a result of the jokes Allen mailed to various writ-ers, he was invited, then age nineteen, to join the NBCWriters Development Program in 1955, followed by ajob on The NBC Comedy Hour in Los Angeles. He waslater hired as a full-time writer for humorist Herb Shriner,initially earning $25 a week.[22] He began writing scriptsfor The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show, specials forSid Caesar post-Caesars Hour (19541957), and othertelevision shows.[21][29]p.111 By the time he was workingfor Caesar, he was earning $1,500 a week; with Caesar,he worked alongside Danny Simon, whom Allen creditsfor helping form his writing style.[22][30] In 1962 alone heestimated that he wrote twenty thousand jokes for variouscomics.[28]:533

Allen also wrote for the Candid Camera television show,and appeared in some episodes.[31][32][33] Along with thatshow, he wrote jokes for the Buddy Hackett sitcom Stan-ley and The Pat Boone Show. And in 1958 he cowrotea few Sid Caesar specials with Larry Gelbart.[28]:542 Af-ter writing for many of televisions leading comedians andcomedy shows, Allen was gaining the reputation for beinga genius, says composer Mary Rodgers. When givenan assignment for a show he would leave and come backthe next day with reams of paper, according to pro-ducer Max Liebman.[28]:542 Similarly, after writing forBob Hope, Hope called him half a genius.[28]:542

His daily writing routine could go as long as fteen hours,and he could focus and write anywhere necessary. DickCavett was amazed at Allens capacity to write: He cango to a typewriter after breakfast and sit there until thesun sets and his head is pounding, interrupting work onlyfor coee and a brief walk, and then spend the wholeevening working.[28]:551 When Allen wrote for other co-medians, they would use eight out of ten of his jokes.When he began performing as a stand-up, he was muchmore selective, typically using only one out of ten jokes.He estimated that to prepare for a 30-minute show, hespent six months of intensive writing.[28]:551 He enjoyedwriting, however, despite the work: Nothing makes mehappier than to tear open a ream of paper. And I can'twait to ll it! I love to do it.[28]:551

Allen started writing short stories and cartoon captions formagazines such as The NewYorker; he was inspired by thetradition of New Yorker humorists S. J. Perelman, GeorgeS. Kaufman, Robert Benchley and Max Shulman, whosematerial he modernized.[34][35][36][37][38] Allen has pub-lished four collections of his short pieces and plays.[39][40]These are Getting Even, Without Feathers, Side Eects andMere Anarchy. His early comic ction was heavily inu-enced by the zany, pun-ridden humour of S.J. Perelman.In 2010, Allen released digital spoken word versions ofhis four books, in which he reads 73 short story selec-tions from his work and for which he was nominated fora Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.[41]

2.2 Stand-up comedian

From 1960 to 1969, Allen performed as a stand-up come-dian to supplement his comedy writing. His contempo-raries during those years included Lenny Bruce, ShelleyBerman, the team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May, andMort Sahl, his personal favorite. Comedy historian Ger-ald Nachman notes that Allen, while not the rst to dostand-up, would eventually have greater impact than allthe others in the 1960s, and would redene the mean-ing of stand-up comedy: He helped turn it into biting,brutally honest satirical commentary on the cultural andpsychological tenor of the times.[28]:525

After Allen was taken under the wing of his new man-ager, Jack Rollins, who had recently discovered Nicholsand May, Rollins suggested him to perform his writtenjokes as a stand-up. Allen was resistant at rst, but af-ter seeing Mort Sahl on stage, he felt safer to give it atry: I'd never had the nerve to talk about it before. ThenMort Sahl came along with a whole new style of humor,opening up vistas for people like me.[28]:545 Allen madehis professional stage debut at the Blue Angel nightclubin Manhattan in October 1960, where comedian ShelleyBerman introduced him as a young television writer whowould perform his own material.[28]:545

His early stand-up shows with his dierent style of hu-mor were not always well received or understood by his

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audiences. Very unlike other comedians, Allen spoke tohis audiences in a low-key conversational style, often ap-pearing to be groping for the right words, although hisstyle was well rehearsed. He acted normal, dressed ca-sually, and made no attempt to project a stage person-ality. And he did not improvise: I put very little pre-mium on improvisation, he told Studs Terkel.[28]:532 Hisjokes were simply created from life experiences, with acomedic twist, and typically presented with a dead seri-ous demeanor which made them funnier: I don't thinkmy family liked me. They put a live teddy bear in mycrib.[28]:533

The subjects of his jokes were rarely topical, political oreven socially relevant. Unlike Bruce and Sahl, he didnot discuss current events such as civil rights, womensrights, the Cold War, or Vietnam. And although he wasdescribed as a classic nebbish, he did not tell Jewishjokes. Comedy screenwriter Larry Gelbart comparedAllens style to Elaine May: He just styled himself com-pletely after her, he said.[28]:546 Like Nichols and May,he often made fun of intellectuals.Television talk show host Dick Cavett, who was amongthe minority who quickly appreciated Allens uniquestyle, recalls seeing the audience at the Blue Angel mostlyignore Allens monologue: I recognized immediatelythat there was no young comedian in the country in thesame class with him for sheer brilliance of jokes, and Iresented the fact that the audience was too dumb to re-alize what they were getting.[28]:550 It was his subduedstage presence, while initially unappreciated, that eventu-ally became one of Allens strongest traits, explains Nach-man: The utter absence of showbiz veneer and shtickwas the best shtick any comedian had ever devised. Thisuneasy onstage naturalness became a trademark.[28]:530When he was nally noticed by the media, writers likeNewYork Times Arthur Gelb would describe Allens neb-bish quality as being Chaplinesque and refreshing.Allen developed a neurotic, nervous, and intellectual per-sona for his stand-up routine, a successful move that se-cured regular gigs for him in nightclubs and on televi-sion. Allen brought innovation to the comedy monologuegenre and his stand-up comedy would be consideredinuential.[42] Allen rst appeared on the Tonight Show inNovember 1963. He subsequently released three LP al-bums of live nightclub recordings: the self-titled WoodyAllen (1964), Volume 2 (1965), and The Third WoodyAllen Album (1968) recorded at a fund-raiser for EugeneMcCarthy's presidential run. The material from these al-bums was edited and abridged into the 2-LP compilationalbums Standup Comic and Nightclub Years 19641968(also on CD), including his The Moose routine, co-written with Mickey Rose.[43]

Allen had his own TV show beginning in 1965, called TheWoody Allen Show, where he would intersperse humorwith interviews of famous people, including Rev. BillyGraham and William F. Buckley.[44][45]

2.3 Playwright

Allen with the Broadway cast of Play It Again, Sam (1969).

In 1966, Allen wrote the play Don't Drink the Water. Theplay starred Lou Jacobi, Kay Medford, Anita Gillette andAllens future movie co-star Tony Roberts. A lm adapta-tion of the play, directed by Howard Morris, was releasedin 1969, starring Jackie Gleason. Because he was not par-ticularly happy with the 1969 lm version of his play, in1994, Allen directed and starred in a second version fortelevision, with Michael J. Fox and Mayim Bialik.The next play Allen wrote for Broadway was Play ItAgain, Sam, in which he also starred. The play openedon February 12, 1969, and ran for 453 performances. Itfeatured Diane Keaton and Roberts. The play was sig-nicant to Keatons budding career, and she has statedshe was in awe of Allen even before auditioning for herrole, which was the rst time she met him. During an in-terview in 2013, Keaton stated that she fell in love withhim right away, adding, I wanted to be his girlfriend soI did something about it.[46] After co-starring alongsideAllen in the subsequent lm version of Play It Again, Sam,she would later co-star in Sleeper, Love and Death, Interi-ors, Manhattan and Annie Hall. He showed me the ropesand I followed his lead. He is the most disciplined personI know. He works very hard, Keaton has stated.[46] Ind the same thing sexy in a man now as I always have:humor. I love it when they are funny. Its to die for.[47]

For its March 21, 1969, issue, Life featured Allen onits cover.[48] In 1981, his play The Floating Light Bulbpremiered on Broadway and ran for 65 performances.While receiving mixed reviews, it gave an autobiograph-ical insight into Allens childhood, specically his fasci-nation with magic tricks. He has written several one-actplays, including Riverside Drive and Old Saybrook explor-ing well-known Allen themes.On October 20, 2011, Allens one-act play HoneymoonMotel opened as part of a larger piece entitled RelativelySpeaking on Broadway, with two other one-act plays, oneby Ethan Coen and one by Elaine May.[49]

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2.4 Early lmsHis rst movie was the Charles K. Feldman productionWhats New Pussycat? in 1965, for which he wrote thescreenplay.[8] He was disappointed with the nal prod-uct, which inspired him to direct every lm that he wouldlater write.[8] Allens rst directorial eort was WhatsUp, Tiger Lily? (1966, co-written with Mickey Rose),in which an existing Japanese spy movie Kokusai him-itsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi (1965), International SecretPolice: Key of Keys was redubbed in English byAllen and friends with fresh new, comic dialogue. In1967, Allen played Jimmy Bond in the 007 spoof CasinoRoyale.Allen directed, starred in, and co-wrote (with MickeyRose) Take the Money and Run in 1969, which re-ceived positive reviews. He later signed a deal withUnited Artists to produce several lms. Those lms even-tually became Bananas (1971, co-written with Rose),Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*(1972), Sleeper (1973), and Love and Death (1975).[8]Sleeper was the rst of four lms where the screenplaywas co-written by Allen and Marshall Brickman.I don't like meeting heroes. Theres nobody I want tomeet and nobody I want to work withI'd rather workwith Diane Keaton than anyoneshes absolutely great,a naturalWoody Allen, Rolling Stone interview (1976)[27]

In 1972, Allen wrote and starred in the lm version ofPlay It Again, Sam, directed by Herbert Ross and co-starring Diane Keaton. In 1976, he starred in The Front(directed by Martin Ritt), a humorous and poignant ac-count of Hollywood blacklisting during the 1950s.Then came two of Allens most popular lms. Annie Hallwon four Academy Awards in 1977, including Best Pic-ture, Best Actress in a Leading Role for Diane Keaton,Best Original Screenplay and Best Director for WoodyAllen. Annie Hall set the standard for modern romanticcomedy and ignited a fashion trend with the clothes wornby Diane Keaton in the lm. In an interview with journal-ist Katie Couric, Keaton does not deny that Allen wrotethe part for her and about her.[50] She also explains thatAllen wrote the part based on aspects of her personalityat the time:

Of course I recognized myself in the roles[Woody Allen] wrote. I mean, in Annie Hall(1977) particularly. I was this sort of novicewho had lots of feelings but didn't know how toexpress herself, and I see that in Annie. I thinkWoody used a kind of essential quality that hefound in me at that time, and I'm glad he didbecause it worked really well in the movie.[47]

The lm is ranked at No. 35 on the American Film Insti-

tute ' s 100 Best Movies and at No. 4 on the AFI list of100 Best Comedies.Manhattan (1979), is a black-and-white lm often viewedas an homage to New York City. As in many Allen lms,the main protagonists are upper-middle class writers andacademics. The love-hate opinion of cerebral personsfound in Manhattan is characteristic of many of Allensmovies, including Crimes and Misdemeanors and AnnieHall. Manhattan focuses on the complicated relation-ship between middle-aged Isaac Davis (Allen) with 17-year-old Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), and co-stars DianeKeaton.Keaton, who made eight movies with Allen during hercareer, tries to explain why his lms are unique:

He just has a mind like nobody else. Hesbold. Hes got a lot of strength, a lot of couragein terms of his work. And that is what it takesto do something really unique. Along with agenius imagination.[50]

Between Annie Hall and Manhattan, Allen wrote anddirected the dark drama Interiors (1978), in the styleof the late Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, one ofAllens chief inuences. Interiors represented a departurefrom Allens early, funny comedies (a line from 1980sStardust Memories).

2.5 1980sAllens 1980s lms, even the comedies, have somberand philosophical undertones, with their inuences be-ing the works of European directors, specically IngmarBergman and Federico Fellini. Stardust Memories wasbased on 8, which it parodies, and Wild Strawberries. AMidsummer Nights Sex Comedy was adapted from Smilesof a Summer Night. In Hannah and Her Sisters, partof the lms structure and background is borrowed fromFanny and Alexander. Amarcord inspired Radio Days.September resembles Autumn Sonata. Allen uses manyelements from Wild Strawberries. In Crimes and Misde-meanors, Allen references a scene from Wild Strawber-ries.Mias a good actress who can play many dierent roles.She has a very good range, and can play serious tocomic roles. Shes also very photogenic, very beautifulon screen. Shes just a good realistic actress . . . and nomatter how strange and daring it is, she does it well.Woody Allen (1993)[51]

A Midsummer Nights Sex Comedy was the rst of 13movies Allen made starring Mia Farrow, who steppedinto Diane Keatons role when Keaton was shooting Reds.Stardust Memories features Sandy Bates, a successfullmmaker played by Allen, who expresses resentment

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and scorn for his fans. Overcome by the recent death ofa friend from illness, the character states, I don't want tomake funny movies any more and a running gag has var-ious people (including visiting space aliens) telling Batesthat they appreciate his lms, especially the early, funnyones.[52] Allen believes this to be one of his best lms.[53]

Allen combined tragic and comic elements in such lmsasHannah and Her Sisters andCrimes andMisdemeanors,in which he tells two stories that connect at the end. Heproduced a vividly idiosyncratic tragi-comical parody ofdocumentary, Zelig. He also made three lms about showbusiness: BroadwayDanny Rose, in which he plays a NewYork show business agent, The Purple Rose of Cairo, amovie that shows the importance of the cinema during theDepression through the character of the naive Cecilia, andRadio Days, a lm about his childhood in Brooklyn andthe importance of the radio. The lm costarred Farrowin a part Allen wrote specically for her.[51]

The Purple Rose of Cairo was named by Time as one ofthe 100 best lms of all time and Allen described it as oneof his three best lms, along with Stardust Memories andMatch Point.[54] (Allen denes them as best not in termsof quality but because they came closest to his vision.)In 1989, Allen teamed with directors Francis Ford Cop-pola and Martin Scorsese to make New York Stories, ananthology lm about New Yorkers. Allens short, OedipusWrecks, is about a neurotic lawyer and his critical mother.His short pleased critics, but New York Stories bombed atthe box oce.

2.6 1990sHis 1992 lm Shadows and Fog is a black-and-whitehomage to the German expressionists and features themusic of Kurt Weill. Allen then made his critically ac-claimed drama Husbands and Wives (1992), which re-ceived two Oscar nominations: Best Supporting Actressfor Judy Davis and Best Original Screenplay for Allen.His lm Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) combinedsuspense with dark comedy and marked the return ofDiane Keaton, Alan Alda and Anjelica Huston.He returned to lighter movies like Bullets over Broad-way (1994), which earned an Academy Award nomina-tion for Best Director, followed by a musical, EveryoneSays I Love You (1996). The singing and dancing scenesin Everyone Says I Love You are similar to musicalsstarring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The comedyMighty Aphrodite (1995), in which Greek drama playsa large role, won an Academy Award for Mira Sorvino.Allens 1999 jazz-based comedy-drama Sweet and Low-down was nominated for two Academy Awards for SeanPenn (Best Actor) and Samantha Morton (Best Support-ing Actress). In contrast to these lighter movies, Allenveered into darker satire towards the end of the decadewith Deconstructing Harry (1997) and Celebrity (1998).During this decade Allen also starred in the TV movie

The Sunshine Boys (1995), based on the Neil Simon playof the same name.Allen made one sitcom appearance to date (2009) viatelephone on the show Just Shoot Me! in a 1997 episode,My Dinner with Woody which paid tribute to severalof his lms. Allen provided the lead voice in the 1998animated lm Antz, which featured many actors he hadworked with and Allens character was similar to his ear-lier neurotic roles.

2.7 2000sSmall Time Crooks (2000) is similar to the 1942 lmLarceny, Inc. (from a play by S.J. Perelman).[55] Allennever commented on whether this was deliberate or if hislm was in any way inspired by it. Small Time Crooks wasAllens rst lm with the DreamWorks studio and repre-sented a change in direction: Allen began giving moreinterviews and made an attempt to return to his slapstickroots. The lm was a relative nancial success, gross-ing over $17 million domestically but Allens next fourlms foundered at the box oce, including Allens mostcostly lm, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (with a budgetof $26 million). Hollywood Ending, Anything Else, andMelinda and Melinda were given rotten ratings fromlm-review website Rotten Tomatoes and each earnedless than $4 million domestically.[56] Some critics claimedthat Allens lms since 1999s Sweet and Lowdown weresubpar and expressed concern that Allens best years werenow behind him.[57] Others have been less harsh; review-ing the little-liked Melinda and Melinda, Roger Ebertwrote, I cannot escape the suspicion that if Woody hadnever made a previous lm, if each new one was WoodysSundance debut, it would get a better reception. His rep-utation is not a dead shark but an albatross, which withadmirable economy Allen has arranged for the critics tocarry around their own necks.[58] Woody gave his god-son Quincy Rose a small part in Melinda and Melinda.Allen was elected a Fellow of the American Academy ofArts and Sciences in 2001.[59]

Match Point (2005) was one of Allens most successfullms of the decade, garnering positive reviews.[60] Set inLondon, it starred Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Scarlett Jo-hansson. It is markedly darker than Allens rst four lmswith DreamWorks SKG. In Match Point, Allen shifts fo-cus from the intellectual upper class of New York to themoneyed upper class of London. It earned more than $23million domestically (more than any of his lms in nearly20 years) and over $62 million in international box of-ce sales.[61] Match Point earned Allen his rst AcademyAward nomination since 1998, for Best Writing Orig-inal Screenplay with directing and writing nominationsat the Golden Globes, his rst Globe nominations since1987. In an interview with Premiere Magazine, Allenstated this was the best lm he has ever made.[62]

Allen returned to London to lm Scoop, which also

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Allen candid from 2006

starred Johansson, Hugh Jackman, Ian McShane, KevinMcNally and Allen himself. The lm was released onJuly 28, 2006, and received mixed reviews. He lmedCassandras Dream in London. Cassandras Dream wasreleased in November 2007, and stars Colin Farrell, EwanMcGregor and Tom Wilkinson.After nishing his third London lm, Allen headed toSpain. He reached an agreement to lm Vicky CristinaBarcelona in Avils, Barcelona and Oviedo, where shoot-ing started on July 9, 2007. The movie stars ScarlettJohansson, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Hall and PenlopeCruz.[63][64] Speaking of his experience there, Allen said:I'm delighted at being able to work with Mediapro andmake a lm in Spain, a country which has become so spe-cial to me. Vicky Cristina Barcelona was well received,winning Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy atthe Golden Globe awards. Penlope Cruz received theAcademy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her rolein the lm.Allen has said that he survives on the European market.Audiences there tend to be more receptive to his lms,particularly in Spain, France and Italy countries wherehe has a large audience (joked about in Hollywood End-ing). In the United States things have changed a lot, andits hard to make good small lms now, Allen said in a2004 interview. The avaricious studios couldn't care lessabout good lms if they get a good lm they're twiceas happy but money-making lms are their goal. Theyonly want these $100 million pictures that make $500million.[65]

In April 2008, he began lming a story focused moretowards older audiences starring Larry David, PatriciaClarkson[66] and Evan Rachel Wood.[67] Released in2009, Whatever Works,[68] described as a dark comedy,follows the story of a botched suicide attempt turnedmessy love triangle. Whatever Works was written byAllen in the 1970s and the character played by LarryDavid was written for Zero Mostel, who died the yearAnnie Hall came out.

2.8 2010sYou Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, lmed in London,stars Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins,Anupam Kher, Freida Pinto and Naomi Watts. Filmingstarted in July 2009. It was released theatrically in theUS on September 23, 2010, following a Cannes debut inMay 2010, and a screening at the Toronto InternationalFilm Festival on September 12, 2010. Allen announcedthat his next lm would be titled Midnight in Paris,[69]starring Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard,Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Michael Sheen, Gad El-maleh and Carla Bruni, the First Lady of France at thetime of production. The lm follows a young engagedcouple in Paris who see their lives transformed. It de-buted at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival on May 12, 2011.Allen said he wanted to show the city emotionally, dur-ing the press conference. I just wanted it to be the wayI saw Paris Paris through my eyes, he added.[70] Ithas overtaken Hannah and Her Sisters as Allens mostsuccessful lm at the box oce in the United States.[71]Critically acclaimed, the lm was considered by some amark for his return to form.[72] Midnight in Paris won theAcademy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His nextlm, To Rome with Love, was a Rome-set comedy re-leased in 2012. The lm was structured in four vignettesfeaturing dialogue in both Italian and English. It markedAllens return to acting since his last role in Scoop.[73]

Blue Jasmine debuted in July 2013.[74] The lm is setin San Francisco and New York, and stars Alec Bald-win, Cate Blanchett, Louis C.K., Andrew Dice Clay,Sally Hawkins, and Peter Sarsgaard.[75] Opened to crit-ical acclaim, the lm earned Allen another AcademyAward nomination for Best Original Screenplay,[76] andBlanchett went to receive the Academy Award for BestActress.[77] In 2013, in Nice, France, Allen shot the ro-mantic comedy Magic in the Moonlight, set in the 1920son the French Riviera[78] and starring Colin Firth andEmma Stone.[79] Allen co-stars with John Turturro inFading Gigolo, written and directed by Turturro, whichpremiered in September 2013.[80]

From July through August 2014, Allen lmed the mysterydrama Irrational Man in Newport, Rhode Island, withJoaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey and JamieBlackley.[81] Allen said that this lm, as well as the nextthree he has planned, have nancing and the full supportof Sony Pictures Classics.[82]

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2.9 Future projects

Life-size statue of Woody Allen in Oviedo, Spain

For many years, Allen wanted to make a lm about the

origins of jazz in New Orleans. The lm, tentatively titledAmerican Blues, would follow the vastly dierent careersof Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet. Allen stated thatthe lm would cost between $80 and $100 million and istherefore unlikely to be made.[83]

On January 13, 2015, it was announced Allen will writeand direct a half-hour television series for Amazon Stu-dios, marking the rst time he has developed a televisionshow. It will be available exclusively on Amazon PrimeInstant Video, and Amazon Studios has already ordereda full season. Allen said of the series, I don't know howI got into this. I have no ideas and I'm not sure where tobegin. My guess is that Roy Price will regret this, a ref-erence to Price, the head of Amazon Studios.[84][85][86] Atthe 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Allen said, in reference tohis upcoming Amazon show, It was a catastrophic mis-take. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm oundering. Iexpect this to be a cosmic embarrassment.[87]

3 Theater

While best known for his lms, Allen has enjoyed a suc-cessful career in theater, starting as early as 1960, whenhe wrote sketches for the revue From A to Z. His rstgreat success was Don't Drink the Water, which openedin 1968, and ran for 598 performances for almost twoyears on Broadway. His success continued with Play ItAgain, Sam, which opened in 1969, starring Allen andDiane Keaton. The show played for 453 performancesand was nominated for three Tony Awards, although noneof the nominations were for Allens writing or acting.[88]

In the 1970s, Allen wrote a number of one-act plays, mostnotably God and Death, which were published in his 1975collection Without Feathers.In 1981, Allens play The Floating Light Bulb opened onBroadway. The play was a critical success and a commer-cial op. Despite two Tony Award nominations, a Tonywin for the acting of Brian Backer (who won the 1981Theater World Award and a Drama Desk Award for hiswork), the play only ran for 62 performances.[89]

After a long hiatus from the stage, Allen returned to thetheater in 1995, with the one-act Central Park West, aninstallment in an evening of theater known as Death De-fying Acts that was also made up of new work by DavidMamet and Elaine May.[90]

For the next few years, Allen had no direct involvementwith the stage, yet notable productions of his work werestaged. A production of God was staged at The Bank ofBrazil Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro,[91] and theatri-cal adaptations of Allens lms Bullets Over Broadway[92]and September[93] were produced in Italy and France, re-spectively, without Allens involvement. In 1997, rumorsof Allen returning to the theater to write a starring rolefor his wife Soon-Yi Previn turned out to be false.[94]

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In 2003, Allen nally returned to the stage with WritersBlock, an evening of two one-acts Old Saybrook andRiverside Drive that played O-Broadway. The produc-tion marked the stage-directing debut for Allen.[95] Theproduction sold out the entire run.[96]

Also in 2003, reports of Allen writing the book for amusical based on Bullets Over Broadway surfaced, andit opened in New York in 2014.[97] The musical closedon August 24, 2014, after 156 performances and 33previews.[98] In 2004, Allens rst full-length play since1981, A Second Hand Memory,[99] was directed by Allenand enjoyed an extended run O-Broadway.[96]

In June 2007, it was announced that Allen would maketwo more creative debuts in the theater, directing a workthat he did not write and directing an opera a re-interpretation of Puccinis Gianni Schicchi for the LosAngeles Opera[100] which debuted at the Dorothy Chan-dler Pavilion on September 6, 2008.[101] Commenting onhis direction of the opera, Allen said, I have no ideawhat I'm doing. His production of the opera openedthe Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, in June2009.[102]

In October 2011, Woody Allens one-act play called Hon-eymoon Motel premiered as one in a series of one actplays on Broadway titled Relatively Speaking.[103] Alsocontributing to the plays are Elaine May and Ethan Coenwith John Turturro directing.[104]

It was announced in February 2012 that Allen wouldadapt Bullets over Broadway into a Broadway musical. Itopened on April 10, 2014 and closed on August 24th,2014.[105]

4 Music

Woody Allen with Jerry Zigmont and SimonWettenhall perform-ing at Vienne Jazz Festival, Vienne, France, September 20, 2003

Allen is a passionate fan of jazz, featured prominently inthe soundtracks to his lms. He began playing the clar-inet as a child and took his stage name from clarinetistWoody Herman.[106] He has performed publicly at leastsince the late 1960s, notably with the Preservation HallJazz Band on the soundtrack of Sleeper.[107] One of his

earliest televised performances was on The Dick CavettShow on October 20, 1971.[108]

Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band have beenplaying each Monday evening at Manhattans CarlyleHotel for many years[109] (as of 2011,[110] specializingin classic New Orleans jazz from the early twentiethcentury).[111] He plays songs by Sidney Bechet, GeorgeLewis, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone and Louis Arm-strong.[112] The documentary lm Wild Man Blues (di-rected by Barbara Kopple) documents a 1996 Europeantour by Allen and his band, as well as his relationshipwith Previn. The band has released two CDs: The BunkProject (1993) and the soundtrack of Wild Man Blues(1997). In a 2011 review of a concert by Allens jazzband, critic Kirk Silsbee of the L.A. Times suggested thatAllen should be regarded as a competent musical hobbyistwith a sincere appreciation for early jazz: Allens clar-inet won't make anyone forget Sidney Bechet, Barney Bi-gard or Evan Christopher. His piping tone and strings ofstaccato notes can't approximate melodic or lyrical phras-ing. Still his earnestness and the obvious regard he has fortraditional jazz counts for something.[113]

Allen and his band played the Montreal International JazzFestival on two consecutive nights in June 2008.[114]

5 Signicant works about Allen

A panel from Stuart Hamples Inside Woody Allen comic strip

Apart from Wild Man Blues, directed by Barbara Kopple,there are other documentaries featuring Woody Allen,including the 2002 cable-television documentary Woody

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Allen: a Life in Film, directed by Time lm critic RichardSchickel, which interlaces interviews of Allen with clipsof his lms, and Meetin' WA, a short interview of Allenby French director Jean-Luc Godard. In 2011 the PBSseries American Masters co-produced a comprehensivedocumentary about him, Woody Allen: a Documentarydirected by Robert B. Weide.[8]

Eric Lax authored the book Woody Allen: A Biogra-phy.[115] From 1976 to 1984, Stuart Hample wrote anddrew Inside Woody Allen, a comic strip based on Allenslm persona.

6 Personal life

6.1 Marriages and romantic relationships

Allen has had three wives: Harlene Rosen (19541959),Louise Lasser (19661970) and Soon-Yi Previn (1997present). Though he had a 12-year romantic relationshipwith actress Mia Farrow, the two never married. Allenalso had romantic relationships with Stacey Nelkin andDiane Keaton.

6.1.1 Harlene Rosen

At age 19, Allen married 16-year-old Harlene Rosen.[116]The marriage lasted from 1954 to 1959. Time stated thatthe years were nettling and unsettling.[116]

Rosen, whom Allen referred to in his standup act as theDread Mrs. Allen, sued him for defamation due to com-ments at a TV appearance shortly after their divorce.Allen tells a dierent story on his mid-1960s standup al-bum Standup Comic. In his act, Allen said that Rosensued him because of a joke he made in an interview.Rosen had been sexually assaulted outside her apartmentand according to Allen, the newspapers reported that shehad been violated. In the interview, Allen said, Know-ing my ex-wife, it probably wasn't a moving violation.In an interview on The Dick Cavett Show, Allen broughtup the incident again where he repeated his commentsand stated that the sum for which he was sued was "$1million.[117]

6.1.2 Louise Lasser

Allen married Louise Lasser in 1966. They divorced in1970, and Allen did not marry again until 1997. Lasserappeared in three Allen lms shortly after the divorce Take the Money and Run, Bananas, and Everything YouAlways Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid toAsk) and later briey appeared in Stardust Memories.

6.1.3 Diane Keaton

In 1970, Allen cast Diane Keaton in his Broadway show,Play It Again, Sam. During the run she and Allen becameromantically involved and although they broke up aftera year, she continued to star in a number of his lms,including Sleeper as a futuristic poet and Love and Deathas a composite character based on the novels of Tolstoyand Dostoevsky. Annie Hall was very important in Allenand Keatons careers. It is said that the role was writtenfor her, as Diane Keatons given name is Diane Hall. Shethen starred in Interiors as a poet, followed by Manhattan.In 1987, she had a cameo as a nightclub singer in RadioDays and was chosen to replace Mia Farrow in the co-starring role for Manhattan Murder Mystery after Allenand Farrow began having troubles with their personal andworking relationship while making this lm. Keaton hasnot worked with Allen since Manhattan Murder Mystery.Since the end of their romantic relationship, Keaton andAllen remain close friends.[118]

6.1.4 Stacey Nelkin and Mariel Hemingway

The lm Manhattan is said by the Los Angeles Times[119]to be widely known to have been based on his roman-tic relationship with actress Stacey Nelkin. Her bit partin Annie Hall ended up on the cutting room oor, andtheir relationship, though never publicly acknowledged byAllen, reportedly began when she was 17, and a studentat New Yorks Stuyvesant High School.[120][121][122]

In her memoir Out Came The Sun: Overcoming TheLegacy of Mental Illness, Addiction and Suicide in MyFamily (2015), Mariel Hemingway alleged that Allen hada crush on her at the time Manhattan (1979) was in pro-duction and shortly afterwards wanted their platonic re-lationship to turn into something more. Hemingway wasthen 17 or 18 and Allen in his mid-40s.[123][124] Allensuggested they holiday in Paris together, but without say-ing they would share a bedroom. Hemingways par-ents are said to have gently encouraged the liaison, butHemingway herself writes that she nally resisted Allensapproaches.[123][124]

6.1.5 Mia Farrow

Around 1980, Allen began a relationship with actress MiaFarrow, who had leading roles in all of his lms as a di-rector from 1982 to 1992. Farrow and Allen never mar-ried and kept separate homes.[125] In 1991, The New YorkTimes opined on Allens family life with Farrow: Fewmarried couples seem more married. They are constantlyin touch with each other, and not many fathers spend asmuch time with their children as Allen does.[125]

Allen and Farrow separated in 1992, after Farrow dis-covered nude photographs that Allen had taken of Soon-Yi, Farrows adopted daughter who was around 20 years

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old at the time.[126][127] In her autobiography, What FallsAway (New York: Doubleday, 1997), Farrow says thatAllen admitted to a relationship with Soon-Yi.[128]

In a 2005 Vanity Fair interview,[129] Allen estimated that,despite the scandals damage to his reputation, Farrowsdiscovery of Allens attraction to Soon-Yi Previn by nd-ing nude photographs of her was just one of the fortu-itous events, one of the great pieces of luck in my life. .. It was a turning point for the better. Of his relation-ship with Farrow, he said, I'm sure there are things thatI might have done dierently. . . Probably in retrospectI should have bowed out of that relationship much earlierthan I did. In 2011, Allen said,

What was the scandal? I fell in love withthis girl, married her. We have been marriedfor almost 15 years now. There was no scandal,but people refer to it all the time as a scandaland I kind of like that in a way because when Igo I would like to say I had one real juicy scan-dal in my life.[130]

6.1.6 Soon-Yi Previn

Soon-Yi Previn and Allen at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival

After ending his relationship with Mia Farrow in 1992,Allen continued his relationship with Soon-Yi Previn.Though Allen never married Mia Farrow[125][131] and wasnot Previns legal stepfather, the relationship betweenAllen and Previn has often been referred to as a stepfatherinvolved romantically with his stepdaughter[132] becauseshe was adopted and legally Farrows daughter and Allenssons sister.In 1991, when the relationship began, Allen was 56 andPrevin around 21. Asked whether their age dierence wasconducive to a healthy, equal relationship, Allen saidequality is not necessarily a requirement in a relationshipand The heart wants what it wants. Theres no logic tothose things. You meet someone and you fall in love, andthats that.[133] The couple married in 1997.[134]

6.2 Children

Mia Farrow and Allen jointly adopted two children, Dy-lan Farrow (who changed her name to Eliza and later toMalone)[135] and Moshe Farrow (known as Moses); theyalso had one biological child, Satchel Farrow (known asRonan Seamus Farrow). Allen did not adopt any of Far-rows other children, including Soon-Yi Farrow Previn(adopted daughter of Farrow and Andr Previn, nowknown as Soon-Yi Previn).Following their separation, Farrow won custody of theirchildren. Allen was denied visitation rights with Maloneand could see Ronan only under supervision. Moses, whowas then 15, chose not to see Allen[136] but by age 36 hehad been estranged from his mother and reestablished hisrelationship with Allen and his sister. Farrow also wentto court to have Allens two adoptions with her nullied.In that case, the court decided for Allen and he continuesto be their legal father.[137]

In a 2013 interview with Vanity Fair, Farrow stated thatRonan could possibly be the biological child of her rsthusband Frank Sinatra, with whom she claims to havenever really split up.[138] On Fathers Day 2012, RonanFarrow tweeted Happy Fathers day or as they call it inmy family, happy brother-in-laws day.[139]

Soon-Yi Previn and Allen have two adopteddaughters,[140] Bechet Dumaine (born c. 1999,China)[141] and Manzie Tio (born 2000, Texas).[142]

6.3 Child sexual abuse allegations

In 1992, Mia Farrow was given full custody of the chil-dren after the sexual abuse case was examined in courtand it was determined that the abuse could not be ruledout. The judge declared, in his 33-page decision, thatWoody Allens behavior toward Dylan was grossly in-appropriate and that measures must be taken to protecther.[143]

After Allen and Farrow separated from their long-termrelationship in 1993, a long public legal battle for the cus-tody of their three children began. Prior to the proceed-ings, Dylan Farrows doctor reported concerns that Allenhad sexually molested his adopted daughter, who wasthen seven years old. The police-appointed medical teamconcluded that Dylan was not molested, citing contra-dictory statements by Dylan.[144] The judge eventuallyfound that the sex abuse charges were inconclusive.[145]

After the custody case, the New York Department of So-cial Services closed a 14-month investigation in the caseand concluded that, No credible evidence was foundthat the child named in this report has been abused ormaltreated...This report has, therefore, been consideredunfounded.[146]

In February 2014, Dylan Farrow repeated the allegationsin an open letter published by Nicholas Kristof, a friend

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of Mia Farrow, in his blog on The New York Times ' s web-site, describing how Allen allegedly sexually abused herin the attic in their Connecticut summer home while shewas playing with her brothers train set.[147][148][149][150]Allen repeated his denial of the allegations, calling themuntrue and disgraceful,[151][152] followed by an o-cial response published in The New York Times.[153] Dy-lans older brother, Moses Farrow, defended Allen, tellingPeople magazine, Of course Woody did not molest mysister, saying that their mother had manipulated her chil-dren into hating him as a vengeful way to pay him backfor falling in love with Soon-Yi. Dylan has denied thatshe was coached by her mother, and has stood by herallegations.[154][155][156]

6.4 PsychoanalysisAllen spent over 37 years undergoing psychoanalysis,and some of his lms, such as Annie Hall, jokingly in-clude references to psychoanalysis. Moment Magazinesays, It drove his self-absorbed work. Allen biogra-pher John Baxter, wrote, Allen obviously found anal-ysis stimulating, even exciting.[157] Allen says his psy-choanalysis ended around the time he began his relation-ship with Previn, although he is still claustrophobic andagoraphobic.[129]

Allen has described himself as being a militant Freudianatheist".[158]

7 Theater worksIn addition to directing, writing, and acting in lms, Allenhas written and performed in a number of Broadway the-ater productions.

8 FilmographyMain article: Woody Allen lmography

Films starring Woody Allen (as an actor):

Whats New Pussycat? (1965) Whats Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) Casino Royale (1967) Take the Money and Run (1969) Bananas (1971) Play It Again, Sam (1972) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*(*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972)

Sleeper (1973) Love and Death (1975) The Front (1976) Annie Hall (1977) Manhattan (1979) Stardust Memories (1980) A Midsummer Nights Sex Comedy (1982) Zelig (1983) Broadway Danny Rose (1984) The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Meetin' WA (1986) Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Radio Days (1987) September (1987) King Lear (1987) New York Stories (1989) Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) Alice (1990) Scenes from a Mall (1991) Shadows and Fog (1991) Husbands and Wives (1992) Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) Don't Drink the Water (1994) Mighty Aphrodite (1995) Everyone Says I Love You (1996) Deconstructing Harry (1997) Wild Man Blues (1997) The Impostors (1998) (uncredited) Antz (1998) (voice) Sweet and Lowdown (1999) Company Man (2000) Small Time Crooks (2000) Picking Up the Pieces (2000) The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)

(documentary)

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Hollywood Ending (2002) Anything Else (2003) Match Point (2005) Scoop (2006) Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) Whatever Works (2009) Midnight in Paris (2011) Paris Manhattan (2012) To Rome with Love (2012) Fading Gigolo (2013) Blue Jasmine (2013) Magic in the Moonlight (2014) Irrational Man (2015)

9 See also List of awards and nominations received by Woody

Allen

Woody Allen bibliography

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