Hannah and Her Sisters

Top 10 Fun Facts

1. Hannah's apartment was actually Mia Farrow's apartment in real life. Farrow reportedly once turned on the television to find an airing of Hannah and Her Sisters, meaning she was seeing her apartment on TV while also IN her apartment.
2. Mia Farrow enjoyed another "real" connection during filming: her mother, Maureen O'Sullivan, co-starred as Hannah's (and her sisters') boozy mom Norma.
3. Several of Farrow's children appear in the Thanksgiving scenes, including Woody Allen's future wife Soon-Yi Previn.
4. Lighten up, or else: Woody Allen gave the film a more upbeat ending than he had originally intended, at the request of the studio.
5. With a $40 million box office haul, Hannah and Her Sisters would remain Woody Allen's biggest commercial success until 2005's Match Point (Which is not to be confused with the Kirsten Dunst flick Wimbledon).
6. Know your poetry: Elliot tells Lee to read the poem on page 112 of the e.e. cummings book he gives her, but the poem is actually on page 366.
7. You may recognize comedian Lewis Black as Paul - this was his first film role.
8. It was also the film debut of Tony Award-winning stage actress Joanna Gleason, who would go on to play Woody Allen's wife in Crimes and Misdemeanors (not to mention Rachel's boss on Friends).
9. The movie scored seven Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture. Allen took home the film's only Oscar, for the screenplay.
10. In addition to the Oscar love, there was a movement to get Allen's script a Pulitzer nomination. But just like the movement to bring back Pudding Pops, it fell short.

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