Stardust Memories - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[duane]

Later in the movie, the Analyst uses a term invented by Woody Allen to describe Sandy: "Ozymandias Melancholia". Woody employed that term again in his movie "To Rome with Love" (2012).

[ivan]

The movie is based on weekend film festivals that were hosted by movie critic Judith Crist, who can be seen in a cameo in Sandy Bates' magician fantasy.

[linda]

Debut of Sharon Stone.

[jesus]

The scene where Shelly has made her way into Sandy's bed without his knowledge is an homage to John Huston's Wise Blood (1979), made just one year earlier. Actress Amy Wright does exactly the same thing to that movie's main character, Hazel Motes.

[bessie]

The film cast includes one Oscar winner: Woody Allen: and three Oscar nominees: Sharon Stone, Charlotte Rampling and Marie-Christine Barrault.

[dustin]

This was the last film that Woody Allen directed in which Mia Farrow did not appear until Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993).

[miriam]

The paperback Sandy Bates (Woody Allen) autographs for the boy while having lunch with the new studio heads is the Monarch Notes version of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer".

[violet]

Woody Allen's character argues with a women that he couldn't be attracted to her "kid cousin" as it was creepy. Woody Allen himself would go on to marry the adult adopted daughter of his ex-girlfriend Mia Farrow.

[steve]

The movie features a magic show sequence. Woody Allen got his start in show-business performing magic tricks at sixteen years of age.

[ray]

Tony Roberts' character makes reference to his dating a Playboy Playmate. In his final shot in the movie, Roberts is shown talking to Candy Loving, who was indeed Playboy's 25th-Anniversary Playmate.

[kenzi]

The enlarged-photo-themed wallpaper in Sandy's apartment changed to offer reflections on or counterpoints to the scenes in which they appear. In the scene where Sandy & Dorrie are arguing about his flirting with her 13-year-old cousin it shows a newspaper headline that reads "Incest betw... fathers and..."

[christina]

In 1978, Laraine Newman was quoted in Rolling Stone as having been told by Woody Allen that she was the only member of the original Saturday Night Live (1975) cast who seemed like a genuine actor. She was given the uncredited role of the only female movie executive.

[amber]

Woody Allen's final film for United Artists. The UA executives who had worked with Allen for a decade quit UA to form Orion Pictures, where Allen joined them for another decade.

[maureen]

When Woody Allen edited his films, he would play old music records in the cutting room to help him establish the rhythm of a scene being edited. This was the first movie in which Allen used the old music on his movie's soundtrack.

[ken]

The name of the hotel was The Hotel Stardust. The building was in reality the building of the The Ocean Grove's Great Auditorium, NJ.

[wallace]

The character of Dorrie was modeled on Allen's own ex-wife Louise Lasser, who took an uncredited cameo in the film.

[kenzi]

After Annie Hall (1977), this was the second time that Joan Neuman played the mother of Woody Allen's character.

[mathew]

The name of the movie that director Sandy Bates (Woody Allen) was seen making in the film was "Suppression".

[sara]

This film largely stemmed from a riposte by Woody Allen to a hostile article written about him by novelist Joan Didion, and to the Academy's seeming indifference to his "serious" film Interiors (1978). This explains the film's relatively sour mood towards the critical community and indeed the movie-going public.