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Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) More at IMDbPro »

• Cameo: [Daryl Hannah]
  
  
• One-third of the film had Woody Allen's character shooting a documentary on old vaudevillians, with Mia Farrow as the head of the institute to which they belonged. Allen didn't like the scenes in the final cut. During postproduction he cut an entire third of the film, then rewrote and re-shot that section from scratch. As a result, Sean Young's scenes were cut out, and Daryl Hannah's role was reduced to a brief cameo.
  
  
• The role of Prof. Louis Levy, subject of Cliff Stern's documentary in this film, is played by non-actor and therapist friend of Woody Allen's , world-renowned Martin S. Bergmann, clinical professor of psychology in New York University's post-doctoral program.
  
  
• Originally, Alan Alda was only supposed to appear in the opening party scene with Daryl Hannah. Woody Allen expanded Alda's part after he asked Alda to improvise and Allen liked the improvisation. Allen wrote Alda's part as they went along.
  
  
• Woody Allen felt that he had been too "nice" to the characters in the end of Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), so he wrote this film as a response to those feelings.
  
  
• Lester is based on Larry Gelbart, whom both Woody Allen and Alan Alda worked with and reportedly disliked because of his despotic way. Lester's various comments such as "Comedy is tragedy plus time" and "If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny" were actual Gelbart quotes.
  
  
• Martin Landau was originally cast as Jack Rosenthal.
  
  
• 10 minutes and 10 seconds into the film, the lady that says: "Hello Lester...Thank you so much for inviting me...its a beautiful party" is Wanda Toscanini Horowitz.
  
  

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