The Purple Rose of Cairo

...or not, whether you can make a life out of it or a living at it. And it wasn't until halfway through "Purple Rose of Cairo," and Woody Allen told me I was good. And I didn't say, oh, well now I'm going to be a star. I went home and I...

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...the cast of the Broadway revival of ''Blithe Spirit ''. Rush has acted in a number of movies and television series, including the Woody Allen films Zelig and The Purple Rose of Cairo. She was a regular cast member of the television series...

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Allen has directed more than 40 films and made more gems than almost any other living filmmaker -- "Annie Hall," "Manhattan," "The Purple Rose of Cairo," "Crimes and Misdemeanors," "Hannah and Her Sisters," "Husbands and Wives" -- but...

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...better than the fund's. Cohen made one appearance as an actor when he appeared onscreen in Woody Allen's film The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), portraying Raoul Hirsch, a fictional Hollywood producer in the 1930s. His final act, putting it...

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...icon Bix Beiderbecke. A similar juxtaposition follows when Hyman plays the romantic theme he wrote for a Woody Allen film, The Purple Rose of Cairo, before performing the bouncy "Caprice Rag" by James P. Johnson. Hyman is the kind of...

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...to call Allen's former longtime companion, actress Farrow starred in several of Allen's movies, including The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters and Crimes and Misdemeanors. Their relationship ended in 1992, when she discovered...

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...moon by Neil Armstrong). Pantheistic Solipsism is the basis for the plot of the Woody Allen film The Purple Rose of Cairo in which a fictional character in a movie comes off the screen and into the "real world". The Arnold Schwarzenegger...

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...Jersey. In a rare public appearance at the National Film Theatre in 2001, Allen listed The Purple Rose of Cairo as one of only a few of his films that ended up being "fairly close to what I wanted to do" when he set out to write it. Allen...

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And! If that's not enough, immediately following the documentary, TCM will air a mini-marathon of his classic films, including Broadway Danny Rose, Hannah and Her Sisters The Purple Rose of Cairo, Take the Money and Run and Interiors. If...

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