Editing Woody Allen (section)

=== Early marriages and relationships ===
In 1956, Allen married Harlene Rosen. He was 20 and she was 17. The marriage lasted until 1959.<ref name="timemag-3">{{cite magazine|title=Woody Allen: Rabbit Running|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,877848-3,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501134517/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,877848-3,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 1, 2008 |magazine=Time |page=3 |date=July 3, 1972 |access-date=August 4, 2009}}</ref> Rosen, whom Allen called "the Dread Mrs. Allen" in his standup act, sued him for [[defamation]] as a result of comments he made during a television appearance shortly after their divorce. In his mid-1960s album ''Standup Comic'', Allen said that Rosen had sued him because of a joke he made in an interview. Rosen had been [[Rape|sexually assaulted]] outside her apartment. According to Allen, the newspapers reported that she had been "violated". In the interview, Allen said, "Knowing my ex-wife, it probably wasn't a [[moving violation]]." In an interview on ''[[The Dick Cavett Show]]'', Allen repeated his comments and said that she "sued me for a million dollars".<ref name="CavettTube">{{cite web|title=Dick & Woody discuss particle physics|website = [[YouTube]]| date=October 17, 2006 |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xq5Nh2UqCc#t=309 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/9xq5Nh2UqCc| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|access-date=November 18, 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 1966, Allen married [[Louise Lasser]]. They divorced in 1970. Lasser provided voice dubbing in Allen's ''[[What's Up, Tiger Lily?]]'' and appeared in three of his other films: ''[[Take the Money and Run (film)|Take the Money and Run]]'', ''[[Bananas (film)|Bananas]]'', and ''[[Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (film)|Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)]]''. She also appeared briefly in ''[[Stardust Memories]]''.

According to the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[Manhattan (1979 film)|Manhattan]]'' was based on Allen's romantic relationship with actress [[Stacey Nelkin]].<ref name="Nelkin">{{cite web|title=Stacey Nelkin|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-hween-teen-nelkin-photo.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521124823/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-hween-teen-nelkin-photo.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 21, 2014|access-date=September 3, 2018|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> Her bit part in ''[[Annie Hall]]'' ended up on the [[cutting room floor]], and their relationship reportedly began when she was 17 and a student at [[Stuyvesant High School]] in New York.{{sfn|Fox|1996|pp=[https://archive.org/details/woodymoviesfromm0000foxj/page/111 111–112]}}{{sfn|Bailey|2001|p=61}}{{sfn|Baxter|1998|pp=226, 248, 249, 250, 253, 273–74, 385, 416}} In December 2018 ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' interviewed Babi Christina Engelhardt, who said she had an eight-year affair with Allen that began in 1976 when she was 17 years old (they met when she was 16), and that she believes the character of Tracy in ''Manhattan'' is a composite of any number of Allen's presumed other real-life young paramours from that period, not necessarily Nelkin or Engelhardt. When asked, Allen declined to comment.<ref>{{cite news|last=Baum|first=Gary|date=December 17, 2018|title=Woody Allen's Secret Teen Lover Speaks: Sex, Power and a Conflicted Muse Who Inspired 'Manhattan'|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/woody-allens-secret-teen-lover-manhattan-muse-speaks-1169782|access-date=December 17, 2018}}</ref>