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This material from the life and career of Woody Allen, collected by Andreas Brown
of
the Gotham Book Mart & Gallery in New York, includes screenplays,
playscripts, cast and production information, lobby cards, posters, pressbooks,
presskits, souvenir programs, publicity stills, articles by and about Allen, short
stories, photographs, and Allen memorabilia. |
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The Works series is organized in two subseries: Subseries A. Films and Stage Plays;
and Subseries B. Other Writings. Arranged alphabetically by title, nearly all
films
and plays for which Allen was the director, screenwriter, actor and/or producer
are
represented in some measure. Screenplay drafts, some signed, are present for Annie Hall (1977), Antz
(1971), Bananas (1971), Bullets over Broadway (1994), Crimes and
Misdemeanors (1989), Deconstructing Harry
(1997), Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex* *But
Were Afraid to Ask (1972), "The
Filmmaker" (n.d.), The Front (1976),
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Hollywood Ending (2002), Interiors (1978), Love and Death (1975),
Manhattan (1979), A
Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982), Play It
Again, Sam (1972), Radio Days (1987),
Scenes from a Mall (1991), Sleeper (1973), "Stanley" (n.d.),
Stardust Memories (1980), and Take the Money and Run (1969). Also of interest are the
agreements, contracts, riders, and correspondence related to Allen's first major
film What's New Pussycat?, previously titled "Lot's Wife." The material dates from 1963-1965 and
includes letters to and from Charles H. Abramson and Harry E. Sokolov of Famous
Artists Productions, Charles H. Joffe of Jack Rollins Personal Management, producer
Charles K. Feldman, and Fred Goldberg. Playscripts are included for Don't Drink the Water (1966), The
Floating Light Bulb (1981), Play It Again,
Sam (1969), and "Sex and Death: Two
Plays," ca. 1974. |