Annie Hall - crew, film crew

The entire team, the film crew of the film "Annie Hall"
Annie Hall (1977)
Timing: 1:33 (93 min)
Annie Hall - TMDB rating
7.737/10
4199
Annie Hall - Kinopoisk rating
7.774/10
37572
Annie Hall - IMDB rating
7.9/10
290000

Film crew

Director

Producer

Executive Producer

Photo Robert Greenhut #73107
Robert Greenhut
Executive Producer

Writer

Casting

Photo Juliet Taylor #27891
Juliet Taylor
Casting

Editor

Ralph Rosenblum
Editor
Wendy Greene Bricmont
Editor

Art Direction

Mel Bourne
Art Direction

Costume Design

Ruth Morley
Costume Design

Set Decoration

Robert Drumheller
Set Decoration
Justin Scoppa Jr.
Set Decoration
Barbara Krieger
Set Decoration

Makeup Artist

Fern Buchner
Makeup Artist
John Inzerella
Makeup Artist

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Jack Higgins
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Associate Producer

Fred T. Gallo
Associate Producer

Second Assistant Director

Frederic B. Blankfein
Second Assistant Director

Director of Photography

Photo Gordon Willis #11809

Gordon Willis

Gordon Willis
Director of Photography

Camera Operator

Fred Schuler
Camera Operator
Photo Donald E. Thorin #76836
Donald E. Thorin
Camera Operator

Costume Supervisor

George Newman
Costume Supervisor
Marilyn Putnam
Costume Supervisor

Property Master

Pat O'Connor
Property Master
Thomas Saccio
Property Master

Script Supervisor

Kay Chapin
Script Supervisor

Hairstylist

Romaine Greene
Hairstylist
Vivienne Walker
Hairstylist

Still Photographer

Photo Brian Hamill #74207
Brian Hamill
Still Photographer

Sound Mixer

James Sabat
Sound Mixer
James Pilcher
Sound Mixer

First Assistant Director

Fred T. Gallo
First Assistant Director

Animation

Chris K. Ishii
Animation

Thanks

Donald S. Rugoff
Thanks

Production Manager

Photo Robert Greenhut #73107
Robert Greenhut
Production Manager

Assistant Editor

Susan E. Morse
Assistant Editor
Sonya Polonsky
Assistant Editor

Key Grip

Robert Ward
Key Grip
Carl Gibson
Key Grip

Location Manager

Martin Danzig
Location Manager
Daisy Gerber
Location Manager

Grip

Robert Ward
Grip

Carpenter

Joseph Badalucco Jr.
Carpenter

Gaffer

Larry D. Howard
Gaffer
Dusty Wallace
Gaffer

Music

Artie Butler
Music

Production Sound Mixer

Chris Newman

Chris Newman
Production Sound Mixer

First Assistant Camera

Tom Priestley Jr.
First Assistant Camera

Production Assistant

Christopher Cronyn
Production Assistant
Beth Rudin
Production Assistant
Stuart Smiley
Production Assistant

Unit Publicist

Scott MacDonough
Unit Publicist

Construction Grip

Joe Williams Sr.
Construction Grip

Scenic Artist

Cosmo Sorice
Scenic Artist

Extras Casting

Aaron Beckwith
Extras Casting

Wardrobe Supervisor

George Newman
Wardrobe Supervisor
Marilyn Putnam
Wardrobe Supervisor
Nancy McArdle
Wardrobe Supervisor

Transportation Captain

William Curry
Transportation Captain
James E. Foote
Transportation Captain

Sound Editor

Dan Sable
Sound Editor
William S. Scharf
Sound Editor

Color Timer

Steve Johnson
Color Timer

Production Office Coordinator

Lois Kramer Hartwick
Production Office Coordinator

What's left behind the scenes

  • Co-writer Marshall Brickman wrote gags for Woody Allen in the 1960s when he performed in a comedy show.
  • Allen and Brickman, who considered about a hundred possible titles for the future film, initially settled on "Angedonia" (this word in a psychoanalysis dictionary means the inability to experience pleasure). The executives at United Artists were against this option, as they couldn’t imagine how to explain the meaning of the word to audiences. Ultimately, Allen compromised and named the film after the main character just three weeks before the premiere.
  • Many elements of the script are based on reality. For example, Diane Keaton's real last name is Hall, and her nickname is Annie.
  • In 1992, the film was added to the National Film Registry.
  • In the film, Diane Keaton performs the songs “Seems Like Old Times” (1945, music by Carmen Lombardo, lyrics by John Jacob Loeb) and “It Had To Be You” (1924, music by Isham Jones, lyrics by Gus Kahn).
  • In addition to being starred in by Woody Allen and his girlfriend Diane Keaton, some of the hero’s minor love interests are also played by Woody Allen’s lovers.
  • The main characters watch Marcel Ophüls’s four-hour documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” (1969), dedicated to the French Resistance, in a cinema.
  • In one scene of the film, Woody Allen says to Diane Keaton, "Did you get here via the Panama Canal? I'm surrounded by characters from 'The Godfather'." Keaton played the wife of the main character in 'The Godfather' trilogy. Rick Petrucelli, who played Ralph, also appeared as an extra in 'The Godfather' (1972), but was not credited.
  • The sneezing from cocaine by Woody Allen's character (Alvy) was accidental. During a preview, the entire audience laughed so loudly at this scene that Allen decided to keep it. He also had to add an extra beat after it, because people were laughing so much they missed the next few jokes.
  • Initially, Woody Allen envisioned this film as a mystery murder story with a romantic subplot. After reviewing the script, Allen decided to abandon the murder plot. He later used it in 'Manhattan Murder Mystery' (1993).
  • During the lobster cooking scene, Annie runs after the camera to photograph Alvy with the crustacean. Later, when Alvy runs to Annie's house to kill a spider, the photos Annie took can be seen in the background on the wall.
  • The first on-screen appearance of actress Sigourney Weaver (in the date scene with Alvy towards the end of the film).
  • The jokes Woody Allen tells to audiences at the University of Wisconsin and on Dick Cavett's show are taken from his performances as a stand-up comedian.
  • Annie's outfits were Diane Keaton's own clothes.
  • In the scene where Alvy interviews people on the street, a large crowd of people watching the filming can be seen in the background.
  • The phrase "It was the most amusing thing that ever happened to me without my knowing it" is a reference to a 1942 quote by G. L. Mencken.
  • Before Marshall McLuhan was cast in this film, the role was offered to Federico Fellini and Luis Buñuel.
  • Elvi never says the phrase "I love you" to Annie. He only once said that "love" is not a strong enough word to describe his feelings.
  • In the scene recalling the class, one of the teachers writes on the board: "Tuesday, December 1st." December 1st is Woody Allen's birthday, and it was his seventh birthday on a Tuesday (December 1, 1942).
  • On "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1993–2009), Harvey Feinstein revealed that he and Danny Aiello had cameo roles in this film, but they were cut during editing.
  • Woody Allen originally shot a scene where a road sign strongly urged Elvi to go to Annie in California. Editor Ralph Rosenblum recounted that while watching Allen’s footage, he became so enraged by the scene's cuteness that he grabbed the film and threw it into the East River. A similar device with a road sign was later used in the film "L.A. Story" (1991) by screenwriter Steve Martin.
  • The man who appears in the film as the winner of the Truman Capote look-alike contest is actually Truman Capote himself (he is not credited in the film).
  • In June 2008, the film ranked second on the American Film Institute's list of the ten greatest films in the romantic comedy genre.
  • The line “Masturbation is sex with someone you love!” ranked 78th on Premiere magazine's list of “100 Greatest Movie Lines” in 2007.
  • In 2006, Premiere magazine included this film in its list of “50 Greatest Comedies of All Time.”
  • The house near the roller coaster where Alvy grew up is actually the Kensington Hotel in Coney Island (Brooklyn). Allen discovered it while scouting locations during filming. The hotel and roller coaster were demolished in 2000.
  • Kay Lenz was offered the lead role in this film, but her then-boyfriend, David Cassidy, turned it down.
  • Shelly Hack's first screen appearance.
  • All scenes with Shelly Duvall were filmed in two days.
  • Elvy jokes about the political magazines Dissent and Commentary, combining their names into one – Dysentery. The former is a well-known liberal magazine, and the latter is a conservative one.
  • The phrase “La-di-da,” frequently used by Annie Hall, is the title of a 1958 song by Billy and Lillie.
  • Although the film is primarily based on the real-life relationship between Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, the fact that Annie Hall is from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, likely stems from Allen's past relationship with singer Judy Henske, who was born in Chippewa Falls, while Keaton was born in Los Angeles.
  • Filming began with a scene featuring a lobster.
  • The Golden Crest Hotel, visible across the street from the restaurant where Alvy and Annie meet for lunch, is now a luxury Standard Hotel on Sunset Strip.
  • The animated scenes with Alvy and Annie were drawn by Stu Hample, who at the time was drawing the “Inside Woody Allen” comic strips, which were based on the period when Woody was a stand-up comedian.
  • Brooke Shields filmed a scene playing a high school girl that young Alvy falls in love with. However, this scene did not make it into the final cut of the film.
  • The role of Annie Hall was written specifically for Keaton.
  • In AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies (1998), Ben Stiller shared that he particularly enjoyed the scene where Alvy has to meet Annie's family. He said it reminded him of himself, as he was always afraid of meeting his girlfriend's parents. Later, Stiller starred in a film based on a very similar situation ("Meet the Parents," 2000).
  • The first rough cut of the film was 2 hours and 20 minutes long. Among the scenes that were subsequently cut were scenes showing Alvy and his former classmates in the present day, footage of Alvy as a teenager, a scene in a fast-food restaurant (featuring Danny Aiello), a large number of additional scenes with Carol Kane, Janet Margolin, Colleen Dewhurst, and Shelley Duvall, and a scene in which the New York Knicks compete against a team of five great philosophers at Madison Square Garden. A driving scene with Christopher Walken was also cut, but it was decided to restore it a week before the film was completed. Material for the ending was shot in three different versions, but most of it was discarded. The most recent scene additions were made during editing.
  • In one of the deleted scenes, Annie and Alvy visit hell. This scene was rewritten twenty years later for the film "Deconstructing Harry" (1997).
  • The scene where Alvy and Annie are with their psychiatrists was filmed simultaneously on one set with an adjoining wall.
  • According to Tony Roberts, in the scene where Rob picks up Alvy from jail, Woody Allen was unaware that Roberts was going to throw a green visor onto his coat, prompting him to improvise: “Are we going through plutonium?” They shot a second take in which Allen changed his line to “Are we going through a bee field?”, but the first take ultimately made it into the film.
  • In the scene where Elvi and Annie are dividing their belongings, Annie gives Elvi a pin with the inscription “Impeach Ronald Reagan.” Reagan was not yet president at that time.
  • When Annie drives Elvi home after tennis, she quickly parks behind a red car. In the next shot, as they get out of the car, it is clearly visible that they parked behind a blue car.
  • When Elvi, Annie, and Rob are driving to Brooklyn, a police car can be seen in the background slowing down traffic on the road to not interfere with filming.
  • The flag of the University of Wisconsin visible in the audience reveals that this scene was actually filmed at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan.
  • Christopher Walken’s surname is misspelled in the end credits (Christopher Wlaken).
  • During the lobster scene in the beach house, it's noticeable that the refrigerator is so close to the oven that the latter cannot be opened.
  • The lobsters that Annie and Elvi struggle with in the kitchen are dead. It's unclear why Elvi acted as if they were trying to escape from him. Furthermore, when Elvi puts the lobster in the pot, which Annie says she has already brought to a boil, the sound clearly indicates that the pot is empty.
  • The road Annie drives on after the tennis game is not actually a two-way street. The markings were applied specifically for filming.
  • When Rob is driving his Mercedes, several cars can be seen behind him constantly trying to get into the frame.
  • The man who appears in the film as the winner of a Truman Capote look-alike contest is actually Truman Capote.
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