Woody Allen Signed 1969 Playbill " Play It Again Sam " Actor, Writer Director AA
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:37429035 | Industry: Movies |
| Autograph Authentication: Hudson Valley Autographs | Original/Reproduction: Original |
| Signed by: Woody Allen |
1969 Broadway Playbill for the production of "Play It Again Sam, " personally autographed by actor, comedian, film director, and writer, Academy Award winner Woody Allen. A COA from Hudson Valley Autographs accompanies this item.
Woody Allen is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than sixdecades and multiple Academy Award-winning movies. He began hiscareer as a comedy writer on Sid Caesar'scomedy variety program, &n...bsp;Your Show of Shows, working alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart and Neil Simon. Healso began writing material for television, published several books featuringshort stories, and writing humor pieces for The New Yorker.In the early 1960s, he performed as a stand-up comedian in GreenwichVillage alongside Lenny Bruce, Elaine May, Mike Nichols, and Joan Rivers.There he developed a monologue style (rather than traditional jokes), and thepersona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he maintains is quite different from his real-life personality. Hereleased three comedy albums during the mid to late 1960s, even earning a Grammy Award nomination for his 1964comedy album entitled simply, Woody Allen. In 2004 Comedy Central rankedAllen fourth on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians, while a UKsurvey ranked Allen the third-greatest comedian. By the mid-1960s, Allen was writing and directing films, firstspecializing in slapstick comedies such as Take the Money and Run (1969), Bananas (1971), Sleeper (1973), and Love and Death (1975), before moving into dramatic material influenced by European art cinema during the late 1970swith Interiors (1978), Manhattan (1979)and Stardust Memories (1980), andalternating between comedies and dramas to the present. He often stars in hisfilms, typically in the persona he developed as a standup. His film Annie Hall (1977), a romantic comedy featuring Allen and his frequent collaborator Diane Keaton, won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actress for Keaton. Allen isoften identified as part of the New Hollywood waveof filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late 1970s such as Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, and Sidney Lumet.[8] Criticshave called his work from the 1980s his most developed period. His filmsinclude Zelig (1983), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Radio Days (1987), Another Woman (1988), and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989).Many of his 21st-century films, including Match Point (2005), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), and Midnight in Paris (2011), are set inEurope. Blue Jasmine (2013) and Cafe Society (2016) are setin New York and San Francisco.He has received the most nominations for the Academy Award for Best OriginalScreenplay, with 16. He has won four Academy Awards, one for Best Director, and three for Best Original Screenplay.He also garnered nine British Academy Film Awards. In 1997, Allen was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship bythe British Academy of Film andTelevision Arts. In 2014 he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award forLifetime Achievement and a Tony Award nominationfor Best Book of a Musical for Bullets over Broadway. The Writers Guild of America named hisscreenplay for Annie Hall first on its list of the "101Funniest Screenplays."
Woody Allen is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than sixdecades and multiple Academy Award-winning movies. He began hiscareer as a comedy writer on Sid Caesar'scomedy variety program, &n...bsp;Your Show of Shows, working alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart and Neil Simon. Healso began writing material for television, published several books featuringshort stories, and writing humor pieces for The New Yorker.In the early 1960s, he performed as a stand-up comedian in GreenwichVillage alongside Lenny Bruce, Elaine May, Mike Nichols, and Joan Rivers.There he developed a monologue style (rather than traditional jokes), and thepersona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he maintains is quite different from his real-life personality. Hereleased three comedy albums during the mid to late 1960s, even earning a Grammy Award nomination for his 1964comedy album entitled simply, Woody Allen. In 2004 Comedy Central rankedAllen fourth on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians, while a UKsurvey ranked Allen the third-greatest comedian. By the mid-1960s, Allen was writing and directing films, firstspecializing in slapstick comedies such as Take the Money and Run (1969), Bananas (1971), Sleeper (1973), and Love and Death (1975), before moving into dramatic material influenced by European art cinema during the late 1970swith Interiors (1978), Manhattan (1979)and Stardust Memories (1980), andalternating between comedies and dramas to the present. He often stars in hisfilms, typically in the persona he developed as a standup. His film Annie Hall (1977), a romantic comedy featuring Allen and his frequent collaborator Diane Keaton, won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actress for Keaton. Allen isoften identified as part of the New Hollywood waveof filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late 1970s such as Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, and Sidney Lumet.[8] Criticshave called his work from the 1980s his most developed period. His filmsinclude Zelig (1983), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Radio Days (1987), Another Woman (1988), and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989).Many of his 21st-century films, including Match Point (2005), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), and Midnight in Paris (2011), are set inEurope. Blue Jasmine (2013) and Cafe Society (2016) are setin New York and San Francisco.He has received the most nominations for the Academy Award for Best OriginalScreenplay, with 16. He has won four Academy Awards, one for Best Director, and three for Best Original Screenplay.He also garnered nine British Academy Film Awards. In 1997, Allen was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship bythe British Academy of Film andTelevision Arts. In 2014 he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award forLifetime Achievement and a Tony Award nominationfor Best Book of a Musical for Bullets over Broadway. The Writers Guild of America named hisscreenplay for Annie Hall first on its list of the "101Funniest Screenplays."
