The World of Woody Allen

Question: The movie Manhattan opens to music by:

Answer: The film opens showing scenes of New York City set to Gershwin’s "Rhapsody in Blue."

Question: What was Woody Allen’s first film?

Answer: What’s New Pussycat? was Allen’s first original screenplay, written in 1965.

Question: Woody Allen won an Academy Award for Best Director for:

Answer: Allen won the Best Director and the Best Screenplay Oscars for Annie Hall in 1978.

Question: The first movie Woody Allen filmed outside the United States was:

Answer: Love and Death (1975), a story set in Russia, was filmed in France and Hungary.

Question: Woody Allen did not appear in this movie:

Answer: The Purple Rose of Cairo is one of a handful of Allen’s movies in which he did not have an acting role.

Question: Woody Allen plays a character named Larry Lipton in:

Answer: In Manhattan Murder Mystery, Allen plays New Yorker Larry Lipton who, with his wife (played by Diane Keaton), tries to solve the supposed murder of their neighbor.

Question: Javier Bardem appeared in this Woody Allen movie:

Answer: In Vicky Cristina Barcelona Bardem played Spanish artist Juan Antonio, the object of affection of two American women, played by Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall.

Question: Which actor has appeared in the most Woody Allen movies?

Answer: Mia Farrow has appeared in 13 of Allen’s films.

Question: This actor was featured as the young Woody Allen in the movie Radio Days (1987).

Answer: Green was 13 years old when he played a young Allen in this autobiographical flick.

Question: Woody Allen plays this instrument:

Answer: Allen stared playing the clarinet as a kid and took his stage name from the famous clarinetist Woody Herman.