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• A segment that was filmed but eventually cut out of the film was "What Makes a Man a Homosexual?" The sequence had Woody Allen as a common spider and Louise Lasser playing a black widow. After a mating dance on the black widow's web, the spiders make love and the black widow eats the common spider. Allen cut the sequence as he was unable to find a suitable ending for it.
  
  
• The Portuguese title of this movie was adapted to "O ABC Do Amor", which translates as "The ABC Of Love".
  
  
• The titles of the seven segments are each chapter titles from David Reuben's book. The chapter titles are all questions.
  
  
• Woody Allen originally began work on the screenplay with Marshall Brickman.
  
  
• In the "Are the findings of sex studies accurate?" segment, Woody Allen's character's name is Victor Shakapopulis, which is the same name as his character in _What's New, Pussycat (1965)_.
  
  
• Actor Elliott Gould and producer Jack Brodsky were the first people to option David Reuben's book, but opted to sell it to United Artists once they determined that the text was too hard to film.
  
  
• The seven segments are: - (1) Do Aphrodisiacs Work? in which a court jester is foiled by the Queen's chastity belt - (2) What is Sodomy? in which a doctor falls in love with one of his patients, who just happens to be a sheep - (3) Do Some Women Have Trouble Reaching Orgasm? Allen's homage to Italian film-making in general and Michelangelo Antonioni in particular - (4) Are Transvestites Homosexuals? in which a middle-aged man experiments with women's clothes - (5) What Are Sex Perverts? a send-up of game shows - (6) Are the Findings of Doctors and Clinics Who Do Sexual Research Accurate? in which the countryside is terrorized by a giant runaway breast and - (7) What Happens During Ejaculation? which is set in the brain (and other parts of the body) as a man gets involved in a sexual clinch.
  
  
• This is the first of two Woody Allen films using Irving Aaronson and his Commanders' performance of Cole Porter's "Let's Misbehave" during the closing credits. The other is Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
  
  
• Laurence Olivier was the second choice to play Dr. Doug Ross.
  
  
• Woody Allen interviewed Lon Chaney, Jr. for a role in this film (possibly the mad scientist role that went to John Carradine.)
  
  

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