Woody Allen

30 November, 1935

| 1.65 m

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Biography

Woody Allen

Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.Allen broke into show business at 15 years when he started writing jokes for a local paper, receiving $200 a week. He later moved on to write jokes for talk shows but felt that his jokes were being wasted. His agents, Charles Joffe and Jack Rollins, convinced him to start doing stand-up and telling his own jokes. Reluctantly he agreed and, although he initially performed with such fear of the audience that he would cover his ears when they applauded his jokes, he eventually became very successful at stand-up. After performing on stage for a few years, he was approached to write a script for Warren Beatty to star in: Co słychać, koteczku? (1965) and would also have a moderate role as a character in the film. During production, Woody gave himself more and better lines and left Beatty with less compelling dialogue. Beatty inevitably quit the project and was replaced by Peter Sellers, who demanded all the best lines and more screen-time.It was from this experience that Woody realized that he could not work on a film without complete control over its production. Woody's theoretical directorial debut was in Jak się masz, koteczku? (1966); a Japanese spy flick that he dubbed over with his own comedic dialogue about spies searching for the secret recipe for egg salad. His real directorial debut came the next year in the mockumentary Bierz forsę i w nogi (1969). He has written, directed and, more often than not, starred in about a film a year...

Movies

Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.

A rather neurotic ant tries to break from his totalitarian society while trying to win the affection of the princess he loves.

The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

The lives of some visitors and residents of Rome and the romances, adventures and predicaments they get into.

An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.

Suffering from writer's block and eagerly awaiting his writing award, Harry Block remembers events from his past and scenes from his best-selling books as characters, real and fictional, come back to haunt him.

Middle-aged New York married couple Larry and Carol Lipton suspect foul play when their neighbor Paul House's wife Lillian suddenly drops dead.

"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.

When he discovers his adopted son is a genius, a New York sportswriter seeks out the boy's birth mother: a ditzy porn star and prostitute.

An insurance investigator and an efficiency expert who hate each other are both hypnotized by a crooked hypnotist with a jade scorpion into stealing jewels.

Seven stories are trying to answer the question: what is sex? Or maybe they are not trying.

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.

A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a troubled marriage while her stepsister gets engaged.

Bananas

Bananas (1971)

6.91h 22m

Metascore: 67

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.

Jerry Falk learns a lesson the hard way when he falls in love with the beautiful but flighty Amanda.

The life and times of Virgil Starkwell, inept bank robber.

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.

A director is forced to work with his ex-wife, who left him for the boss of the studio bankrolling his new film. But the night before the first day of shooting, he develops a case of psychosomatic blindness.