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-The original Broadway production of "Play It Again, Sam" opened at the Broadhurst Theater on 12th February 1969 and ran for 453 performances until 14th march 1970. Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts and Jerry Lacy reprized their roles in the movie.
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-According to an article by Rob Nixon at the 'Turner Classic Movies' website, this was the film that "made [Woody] Allen a star with mass-audience appeal for the first time".
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-A rare instance of an America-set movie starring Woody Allen which was neither set nor shot in New York. It setting and location was San Francisco.
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-Originally to be shot in Manhattan and Long Island but moved to San Francisco when New York film workers went on strike in the summer of 1971.
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-The set dressing and direction of a movie buff's apartment required locating many rare film posters and movie memorabilia. The value of the items ranged from as little as ten dollars to as expensive as $500. Some of the rarer pieces could only be rented by the production.
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-According to the book 'The Films of the Seventies', "after his appearance in the stage and screen versions of Play It Again, Sam (1972)  'Jerry Lacy' played the Bogart character on a number of television commercials".
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-First of six screen teamings and eight collaborations of Woody Allen and Diane Keaton.
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-The film was made and released about three years after its source stage play of the same name written by Woody Allen had been first performed in 1969.
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-This is the only Woody Allen - Diane Keaton star teamed movie or film collaboration in which Allen did not also direct.
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-The Australian home-video sleeve notes stated that "Allen plays Allan". As such, the film starred Woody Allen playing a character Allan Felix whose first name wasthe same as his last name.
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-The film's tagline "Here's laughing at you kid" was a spoof of the famous Humphrey Bogart line "Here's looking at you kid" from Casablanca (1942).
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-One of a number of 1970s spoofs of film noir and hard-boiled detective films of the 1940s from the likes of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, some of which starred Humphrey Bogart, who was the main target of the parodies. The films included Un cadavre au dessert (1976) and Le chéri de ces dames (1978),both from Neil Simon, Peeper (1976), Le privé (1973), Woody Allen's Tombe les filles et tais-toi! (1972), and Détective comme Bogart (1980).
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-Director Joseph Hardy directed the Broadway stage production of "Play It Again, Sam" but Hardy did not direct this feature film version.
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-The name of the movie magazine that Allan Felix (Woody Allen) wrote for was "Film Weekly".
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-Hollywood legend Humphrey Bogart never actually said the phrase "Play it again, Sam" in the film Casablanca (1942) nor in any of his other movies.

 

 

-The film was made and released about fifteen years after Humphrey Bogart passed away.
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-In an interview with 'Cinema' magazine in March 1972, Woody Allen said: "I would never want to direct a play into a movie. I would only be interested in working on original projects for the screen. I was already at work on [Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur le sexe (sans jamais oser le demander) (1972)], and I didn't want to spend a year doing a project that I had done on Broadway". Woody Allen hoped that the film, directed by director Herbert Ross, would garner "anice, solid, funny commercial picture, and hopefully entice a broader audience for me than I get with my own films".
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-One of a number of Woody Allen films where actor Tony Roberts plays Allen's best friend.
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-Near the beginning of the film, when the Woody Allen character is lying in his bed amongst several books, one of them (with the yellow cover) is the actual WoodyAllen book "Without Feathers".
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-The setting of the film's source play was according to its introduction: "The present. The apartment of Allan Felix on West 10th Street, New York".
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-The name of the movie that Sharon (Jennifer Salt) starred in was "Gang Bang".
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-First released just over a year after the similarly titled Play It Again, Charlie Brown (1971).
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-The Broadway stage production of "Play It Again, Sam" was produced in association with Woody Allen's regular movie producers, Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe, the latter of whom acted as an executive producer on this film.
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-Both Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart actually appeared in this movie, as Ilsa Lund and Richard "Rick" Blaine from Casablanca (1942) respectively, by way of using original film footage from that movie, thereby the two making "archival film appearances".
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-Diane Keaton and Woody Allen had been in a personal relationship around the time they both performed in this film's source "Play it again, Sam" stage play on Broadway.
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-With the assistance of director Herbert Ross, Woody Allen adapted his "Play It Again, Sam" play for this film version in only about ten days.
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-Reportedly, Woody Allen received 10% (points) of the film's box-office gross netting him more than US $1 million.
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-Woody Allen did not direct this movie even though he had already directed three films: Woody Allen Number One (1966), Prends l'oseille et tire-toi! (1969), and Bananas (1971).
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-One of seven film collaborations of actor Tony Roberts and Woody Allen, six of them being cinema movie features.
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-One of eight cinema movie collaborations of Woody Allen and actress Diane Keaton, Allen co-starring in six of them and directing seven of them.
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-The name of the film and it's lead actor that Allan Felix (Woody Allen) was obsessed with was Casablanca (1942) and Humphrey Bogart.
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-In September 1972, Paramount was widely distributing this on a double bill with another comedy, Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972).
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-This color movie opens in black-and-white with the final scenes from of Casablanca (1942) featuring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart.
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-The name of Allan Felix (Woody Allen)'s favorite artist was 'Vincent Van Gogh'
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-Actor Tony Roberts ironically bore a slight resemblance to Humphrey Bogart.
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-Herbert Ross:  behind Allan and Linda as the cable car heads up the hill.