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Bananas is a 1971 American comedy film directed by Woody Allen and starring Allen, Louise Lasser, and Carlos Montalban.Written by Allen and Mickey Rose, the film is about a bumbling New Yorker who, after being dumped by his activist girlfriend, travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest revolution. [1]
The Woody Allen Show: No Yes Standup TV Special (UK) [20] 1966 Gene Kelly in New York, New York: No Yes TV special 1967 Woody Allen Looks at 1967: No Yes TV special 1969 The Woody Allen Special: No Yes TV special [21] 1979 Bob Hope: My Favorite Comedian: Yes Yes Special [22] 2016 Crisis in Six Scenes: Yes Yes Also creator, Amazon [23]
She was married to Woody Allen from 1966 until 1970 and acted in several of his early films including Take the Money and Run (1969) and Bananas (1971). [1] She hosted Saturday Night Live in 1976 and took guest roles in The Bob Newhart Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, Laverne and Shirley and St. Elsewhere.
Subsequently, the city of Oviedo, Spain, erected a life-size statue of Allen. [7] In a 2005 UK poll The Comedian's Comedian, Allen was voted the third greatest comedy act ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. [8] In June 2007, Allen received a PhD Honoris Causa from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain.
Allen as a senior at Midwood High School in Brooklyn in 1953. Allen was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg [25] at Mount Eden Hospital in Bronx, New York City, on November 30, 1935, [a] [26] [27] to Nettie (née Cherry; 1906–2002), a bookkeeper at her family's delicatessen, and Martin Konigsberg (1900–2001), [28] a jewelry engraver and waiter. [29]
Allen went on to have a relationship with model Gregory Connell for over a decade. The star, who inspired the musical "The Boy from Oz," died in 1992 at age 48. He had AIDS.
Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs is a list of the top 100 funny movies in American cinema. A wide variety of comedies, totalling 500 films, were nominated for the distinction; genres included slapstick, action comedy, screwball comedy, romantic comedy, satire, black comedy, musical comedy, comedy of manners, and comedy of errors.
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