Woody Allen

=== 1965–1976: Broadway debut and early films ===
[[File:Woody Allen - Sam.JPG|thumb|left|Allen with the Broadway cast of ''[[Play It Again, Sam (play)|Play It Again, Sam]]'' in 1969]]
Allen's first movie was the [[Charles K. Feldman]] production ''[[What's New Pussycat?]]'' (1965), for which he wrote the screenplay. He was disappointed with the final product, which led him to direct every film he wrote thereafter except ''[[Play It Again, Sam (film)|Play It Again, Sam]]''.<ref name="PBSdocumentary" /> Allen's first directorial effort was ''[[What's Up, Tiger Lily?]]'' (1966, co-written with [[Mickey Rose]]), in which an existing Japanese spy movie—''[[Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi]]'' (''International Secret Police: Key of Keys'', 1965)—was redubbed in English by Allen and friends with fresh new, comic dialogue. In 1967, Allen played Jimmy Bond in the [[James Bond]] spoof ''[[Casino Royale (1967 film)|Casino Royale]]''.

In 1966, Allen wrote the play ''[[Don't Drink the Water (play)|Don't Drink the Water]]''. The play starred [[Lou Jacobi]], [[Kay Medford]], [[Anita Gillette]], and Allen's future movie co-star [[Tony Roberts (actor)|Tony Roberts]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Don't Drink the Water – Broadway Play – Original|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/don't-drink-the-water-3347|publisher=[[Internet Broadway Database]]|access-date=July 18, 2016}}</ref> A [[Don't Drink the Water (1969 film)|film adaptation of the play]], directed by Howard Morris, was released in 1969, starring [[Jackie Gleason]]. Because he was not particularly happy with that version, in 1994 Allen directed and starred in a [[Don't Drink the Water (1994 film)|second version]] for television, with [[Michael J. Fox]] and [[Mayim Bialik]].{{sfn|John|1994|p=92–}}

The next play Allen wrote for Broadway was ''[[Play It Again, Sam (play)|Play It Again, Sam]]'', in which he also starred. The play opened on February 12, 1969, and ran for 453 performances. It featured [[Diane Keaton]] and Roberts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Play It Again, Sam – Broadway Play – Original|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/play-it-again-sam-2849|publisher=[[Internet Broadway Database]]|access-date=July 18, 2016}}</ref> The play was significant to Keaton's budding career, and she has said she was in "awe" of Allen even before auditioning for her role, which was the first time she met him.<ref name="O'Grady">{{cite magazine |last1=O'Grady |first1=Megan |title=Diane Keaton: The Big Picture |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/diane-keaton-the-big-picture |magazine= [[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] |access-date=November 14, 2018 |date=October 19, 2011}}</ref> In a 2013 interview Keaton said that she "fell in love with him right away", adding, "I wanted to be his girlfriend so I did something about it."<ref name=Keaton>{{cite web |title = Actress Diane Keaton Talks About Woody Allen, Her Career and Personal Life |date = 2013-06-02 |website = Netquake |url = http://www.netquake.net/2013/06/actress-diane-keaton-talks-about-woody-allen-her-career-and-personal-life/ |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131017112522/http://www.netquake.net/2013/06/actress-diane-keaton-talks-about-woody-allen-her-career-and-personal-life/ |archive-date = 2013-10-17}}</ref> After co-starring alongside Allen in the subsequent [[Play It Again, Sam (film)|film version of ''Play It Again, Sam'']], she later co-starred in ''Sleeper'', ''Love and Death'', ''Annie Hall'', ''Interiors'' and ''Manhattan''. "He showed me the ropes and I followed his lead. He is the most disciplined person I know. He works very hard," Keaton has said.<ref name=Keaton />

[[File:Woody Allen - Kup.JPG|thumb|170px|Allen in the early 1970s]]
In 1969, Allen directed, starred in, and co-wrote with Mickey Rose ''[[Take the Money and Run (film)|Take the Money and Run]]'', which he considers his true film directorial debut. The film is directed as a "[[mockumentary]] spoof" about a inept bank robber played by Allen. The film received positive reviews; critic [[Vincent Canby]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote, "Allen has made a movie that is, in effect, a feature-length, two-reel comedy—something very special and eccentric and funny."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/08/19/archives/by-and-with-woody-allen-take-the-money-and-run.html|title= By and With Woody Allen: 'Take the Money and Run'|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date= August 19, 1969|access-date= September 14, 2020|last1= Canby|first1= Vincent|authorlink=Vincent Canby}}</ref> Allen received a [[Writers Guild of America Award]] nomination and later signed a deal with [[United Artists]] to produce several films.

During the 1970s, Allen wrote, directed and starred in films later known as his "early, funny" work. In 1971, he made ''[[Bananas (film)|Bananas]]'', in which he plays Fielding Mellish, a bumbling New Yorker who travels to [[Latin America]], where he unwittingly becomes a leader of a nation amid a rebellion. The film co-stars Allen's then girlfriend, [[Louise Lasser]], and [[Carlos Montalbán]]. It also features a brief appearance by [[Sylvester Stallone]] as a train thief and [[Howard Cosell]] as himself. In an interview with [[Roger Ebert]], Allen said of making the movie, "The big, broad laugh comedy is a form that's rarely made these days and sometimes I think it's the hardest kind of movie to make...with a comedy like 'Bananas,' if they're not laughing, you're dead, because laughs are all you have."<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/woody-allen-goes-bananas|title= Woody Allen goes 'Bananas'|website= Rogerebert.com|accessdate= July 16, 2023}}</ref>
[[File:Diane Keaton, Woody Allen, Jerry Lacy Play it Again, Sam Broadway.JPG|left|thumb|[[Diane Keaton]], Allen, and [[Jerry Lacy]] in the film version of ''[[Play It Again, Sam (film)|Play it Again, Sam]]'' in 1972]]

The next year, he made the anthology comedy film ''[[Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (film)|Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)]]'', loosely based on the [[Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (book)|1969 book of the same name]]. It stars Allen, [[Gene Wilder]], [[Lou Jacobi]], [[Anthony Quayle]], [[Tony Randall]], and [[Burt Reynolds]]. The film received mixed reviews, with ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' writing, "the jokes are well-worn, and good, manic ideas are congealing into formulas".<ref>{{cite magazine|url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,878031,00.html|title= Flailings and Failings|magazine= [[Time (magazine)|Time]]|accessdate= July 16, 2023|archive-date= July 21, 2013|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130721085053/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,878031,00.html|url-status= dead}}</ref> The same year, Allen wrote and starred in the film ''[[Play It Again, Sam (film)|Play It Again, Sam]]'', based on his [[Play It Again, Sam (play)|1969 play of the same name]]. It was directed by [[Herbert Ross]] and co-stars Diane Keaton (their first film collaboration). He reunited with Keaton in ''[[Sleeper (1973 film)|Sleeper]]'' (1973), about a man who is [[Cryopreservation|cryogenically frozen]] and later defrosted in a [[science fiction]] [[dystopia]]. Allen has said the film is a tribute to [[Groucho Marx]] and [[Bob Hope]]. ''Sleeper'' was the first of four screenplays co-written by Allen and [[Marshall Brickman]].<ref name="Liebenson">{{cite magazine |last1=Liebenson |first1=Donald |title=The Annie Hall That Might Have Been: Inside Woody Allen's Anhedonia |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/04/annie-hall-40th-anniversary-woody-allen-carol-kane-marshall-brickman |magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|access-date=November 14, 2018 |date=April 20, 2017}}</ref>{{sfn|Stevens|Johnson|2016|pp=37–}}

Allen collaborated again with Keaton in the comedy ''[[Love and Death]]'' (1975), set during the [[Napoleonic era]] and a satire of [[Russian literature]] and film.<ref name="PBSdocumentary" /> [[Vincent Canby]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' called it Allen's "finest work" to date. In 1976, he starred as cashier Howard Prince in ''[[The Front]],'' directed by [[Martin Ritt]]. ''The Front'' was a humorous and poignant account of Hollywood [[blacklist]]ing during the 1950s; Ritt, screenwriter [[Walter Bernstein]], and three cast members—[[Zero Mostel]], [[Herschel Bernardi]], and [[Lloyd Gough]]—had been blacklisted.

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| source = —Woody Allen in July 1976<ref name="Kelley">{{cite magazine |last1=Kelley |first1=Ken |title=A Conversation with the Real Woody Allen (or Someone Just like Him) |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=July 1, 1976 |pages=34–40}}</ref>
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