page_title: Annie Hall
section_title: Cast
hierarchical_section_title: Annie Hall / Cast
caption_attribution_description: Truman Capote, 1959.
context_page_description: Annie Hall is a 1977 American romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay he co-wrote with Marshall Brickman. Produced by Allen's manager, Charles H. Joffe, the film stars the director as Alvy Singer, who tries to figure out the reasons for the failure of his relationship with the film's eponymous female lead, played by Diane Keaton in a role written specifically for her.
  Principal photography for the film began on May 19, 1976, on the South Fork of Long Island, and continued periodically for the next ten months. Allen has described the result, which marked his first collaboration with cinematographer Gordon Willis, as "a major turning point", in that unlike the farces and comedies that were his work to that point, it introduced a new level of seriousness. Academics have noted the contrast in the settings of New York City and Los Angeles, the stereotype of gender differences in sexuality, the presentation of Jewish identity, and the elements of psychoanalysis and modernism.
  Annie Hall was screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival in March 1977, before its official release on April 20, 1977.
context_section_description: Woody Allen as Alvy Singer
  Diane Keaton as Annie Hall
  Tony Roberts as Rob
  Carol Kane as Allison Portchnik
  Paul Simon as Tony Lacey
  Janet Margolin as Robin
  Shelley Duvall as Pam
  Christopher Walken as Duane Hall
  Colleen Dewhurst as Mrs. Hall
  Donald Symington as Mr. Hall
  Joan Newman as Mrs. Singer
  Marshall McLuhan as Himself
  Mordecai Lawner as Alvy's father
  Truman Capote has a cameo. Alvy is making quips about people walking by. He says "There's the winner of the Truman Capote look-alike contest" as Truman Capote walks through the frame.
  Several actors who later gained a higher profile had small parts in the movie: John Glover as Annie's actor boyfriend, Jerry; Jeff Goldblum as a man who "forgot [his] mantra" at Tony Lacey's Christmas party; Beverly D'Angelo as an actress in Rob's TV show; and Sigourney Weaver, in her film debut, in the closing sequence as Alvy's date at the movie theater.
caption: Truman Capote, pictured here in 1959, had a cameo role in the film.
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