Editing Woody Allen (section)

=== 1965–1976: Broadway debut and early films ===
[[File:Woody Allen - Sam.JPG|thumb|left|Allen with the Broadway cast of ''[[Play It Again, Sam (play)|Play It Again, Sam]]'' in 1969]]
Allen's first movie was the [[Charles K. Feldman]] production ''[[What's New Pussycat?]]'' (1965)<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_VF0ZZvmUk|title= Woody Allen Interview Annie Hall 1978 Brian Linehan's City Lights|website= Youtube|date= June 20, 2016|accessdate= June 9, 2024}}</ref> Allen was disappointed with the final product, which led him to direct every film he wrote thereafter except ''[[Play It Again, Sam (film)|Play It Again, Sam]]''.<ref name="PBSdocumentary" /> Allen's first directorial effort was ''[[What's Up, Tiger Lily?]]'' (1966, co-written with [[Mickey Rose]]).<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/95458/whats-up-tiger-lily#credits|title= What's Up Tiger Lily? (1966)|website= [[Turner Classic Movies]]|accessdate= July 20, 2024}}</ref> That same year, Allen wrote the play ''[[Don't Drink the Water (play)|Don't Drink the Water]]'', starring [[Lou Jacobi]], [[Kay Medford]], [[Anita Gillette]], and Allen's future movie co-star [[Tony Roberts (actor)|Tony Roberts]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Don't Drink the Water – Broadway Play – Original|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/don't-drink-the-water-3347|publisher=[[Internet Broadway Database]]|access-date=July 18, 2016}}</ref> In 1994 Allen directed and starred in a [[Don't Drink the Water (1994 film)|second version]] for television, with [[Michael J. Fox]] and [[Mayim Bialik]].{{sfn|Leonard|1994|p=92–}}

The next play Allen wrote for Broadway was ''[[Play It Again, Sam (play)|Play It Again, Sam]]'', which opened on February 12, 1969, starring Allen, [[Diane Keaton]] and Roberts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Play It Again, Sam – Broadway Play – Original|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/play-it-again-sam-2849|publisher=[[Internet Broadway Database]]|access-date=July 18, 2016}}</ref> The play received a positive review from [[Clive Barnes]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'', who wrote, "Not only are Mr. Allen's jokes—with their follow-ups, asides, and twists—audaciously brilliant (only [[Neil Simon]] and [[Elaine May]] can equal him in this season's theater) but he has a great sense of character".<ref>{{cite news|url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/02/13/77439685.html?pageNumber=52|title= Theater: Woody Allen in Fantasyland|work= The New York Times|accessdate= June 9, 2024}}</ref> The play was significant to Keaton's budding career, and she has said she was in "awe" of Allen even before auditioning for her role, which was the first time she met him.<ref name="O'Grady">{{cite magazine |last1=O'Grady |first1=Megan |title=Diane Keaton: The Big Picture |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/diane-keaton-the-big-picture |magazine= [[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] |access-date=November 14, 2018 |date=October 19, 2011}}</ref> In 2013, Keaton said that she "fell in love with him right away", adding, "I wanted to be his girlfriend so I did something about it."<ref name=Keaton>{{cite web |title = Actress Diane Keaton Talks About Woody Allen, Her Career and Personal Life |date = 2013-06-02 |website = Netquake |url = http://www.netquake.net/2013/06/actress-diane-keaton-talks-about-woody-allen-her-career-and-personal-life/ |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131017112522/http://www.netquake.net/2013/06/actress-diane-keaton-talks-about-woody-allen-her-career-and-personal-life/ |archive-date = 2013-10-17}}</ref> For her performance she was nominated for a [[Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1969/category/any/show/any/|title= 1969 Tony Award nominees|website= American Theatre Wing|accessdate= June 9, 2024}}</ref> After co-starring alongside Allen in the subsequent [[Play It Again, Sam (film)|film version of ''Play It Again, Sam'']], she acted in seven more of his films. including ''Sleeper'', ''Love and Death'', ''Annie Hall'', ''Interiors'', and ''Manhattan''.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/99743%7C38291/Diane-Keaton#overview|title= Diane Keaton|website= [[Turner Classic Movies]]|accessdate= July 20, 2024}}</ref> Keaton said of their collaboration: "He showed me the ropes and I followed his lead. He is the most disciplined person I know. He works very hard".<ref name=Keaton />

[[File:Woody Allen - Kup.JPG|thumb|right|170px|Allen in the early 1970s]]
In 1969, Allen directed, starred in, and co-wrote with Mickey Rose the [[mockumentary]] crime comedy ''[[Take the Money and Run (film)|Take the Money and Run]]'', in which he plays the low-level thief Virgil Starkwell.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/22804/take-the-money-and-run#credits|title= Take the Money and Run (1969)|website=[[Turner Classic Movies]]|accessdate= July 20, 2024}}</ref> The film received positive reviews; critic [[Vincent Canby]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote, "Allen has made a movie that is, in effect, a feature-length, two-reel comedy—something very special and eccentric and funny."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/08/19/archives/by-and-with-woody-allen-take-the-money-and-run.html|title= By and With Woody Allen: 'Take the Money and Run'|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date= August 19, 1969|access-date= September 14, 2020|last1= Canby|first1= Vincent|authorlink=Vincent Canby}}</ref> In 1971, Allen wrote and directed the slapstick comedy film ''[[Bananas (film)|Bananas]]'', in which he plays Fielding Mellish, a bumbling New Yorker who becomes involved in a revolution in a country in [[Latin America]]. The film also starred [[Louise Lasser]] as his romantic interest.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bananas|title= Bananas|website= [[Rotten Tomatoes]]|accessdate= July 20, 2024}}</ref> In an interview with [[Roger Ebert]], Allen said, "The big, broad laugh comedy is a form that's rarely made these days and sometimes I think it's the hardest kind of movie to make{{nbsp}}... with a comedy like ''Bananas'', if they're not laughing, you're dead, because laughs are all you have."<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/woody-allen-goes-bananas|title= Woody Allen goes 'Bananas'|website= Rogerebert.com|date= December 14, 2012|accessdate= July 16, 2023}}</ref>

The next year, Allen made the film ''[[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)]]'', starring Allen, [[Gene Wilder]], [[Lou Jacobi]], [[Anthony Quayle]], [[Tony Randall]], and [[Burt Reynolds]], which received mixed reviews. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' wrote, "the jokes are well-worn, and good, manic ideas are congealing into formulas".<ref>{{cite magazine|url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,878031,00.html|title= Flailings and Failings|magazine= [[Time (magazine)|Time]]|accessdate= July 16, 2023|archive-date= July 21, 2013|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130721085053/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,878031,00.html|url-status= dead}}</ref> Allen reunited with Keaton in ''[[Sleeper (1973 film)|Sleeper]]'' (1973), the first of four screenplays co-written by Allen and [[Marshall Brickman]].<ref name="Liebenson">{{cite magazine |last1=Liebenson |first1=Donald |title=The Annie Hall That Might Have Been: Inside Woody Allen's Anhedonia |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/04/annie-hall-40th-anniversary-woody-allen-carol-kane-marshall-brickman |magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|access-date=November 14, 2018 |date=April 20, 2017}}</ref>{{sfn|Stevens|Johnson|2016|pp=37–}}

Allen collaborated again with Keaton in the comedy ''[[Love and Death]]'' (1975), set during the [[Napoleonic era]] and a satire of [[Russian literature]] and film.<ref name="PBSdocumentary" /> At the time of its release, Vincent Canby of ''The New York Times'' called the film Allen's "grandest work".<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/11/archives/film-love-and-death-is-grand-woody-allen.html|title= Film: 'Love and Death' Is Grand Woody Allen|work= The New York Times|date= June 11, 1975|accessdate= July 20, 2024|last1= Canby|first1= Vincent}}</ref> In 1976, Allen starred as cashier Howard Prince in the [[Hollywood blacklist]] comedy-drama ''[[The Front]],'' directed by [[Martin Ritt]] and co-starring [[Zero Mostel]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/front|title= The Front|website= [[Rotten Tomatoes]]|accessdate= July 20, 2024}}</ref>