by Marion Meade (Author)
Marion Meade tells the whole story of Woody Allen's life, from his working class beginnings in the Bronx, through his early career as a gag writer for New York newspaper columnists, his struggles as a stand-up comedian, to his break-through into films with What's New Pussycat (which he wrote and starred in alongside Peter O'Toole). As a writer/director he has made many films most notably Annie Hall (starring Diane Keaton with whom he lived for many years), Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters (with Mia Farrow, with whom he had a 13 year relationship) and Broadway Danny Rose. Marion Meade's is an unauthorised life, but many of those close to Allen both professionally and personally have talked as her previous books on Keaton and Dorothy Parker were widely praised.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: New
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 04 Jan 2001
ISBN 10: 0753811170
ISBN 13: 9780753811177
Book Overview: The full story of the controversial actor-writer-director celebrity who makes headlines whatever he does 'Marion Meade has researched her topic thoroughly, and to the unbiased observer (which I am not - I love his films), this seems a meticulous and even-handed description of events...as gripping as a detective novel' Observer 'Well-written stuff...There are sprightly, well-observed sections about Woody's nagging mother, his early success as a stand-up comedian, his first wife, Harlene Rosen' Glasgow Sunday Herald 'Marion Meade has tapped into some essential truths that have been previously missing...Marion Meade's exhaustive and extremely vivid biography' Midweek
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