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• Many of Hannah's scenes were filmed in Mia Farrow's actual apartment. Allen said that Farrow once had the eerie experience of turning on the TV to a chance broadcast of the movie thus viewing her own apartment on TV while she was sitting in it.
  
  
• According to USA Today, upon the film's original release, a movement was afoot to try to make Allen's script the first screenplay to be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
  
  
• Woody Allen was originally going to have a more downbeat ending, but the studios asked him to make it more upbeat.
  
  
• After actors Max von Sydow and Barbara Hershey finished filming their characters' break-up scene, the film crew gave them a standing ovation.
  
  
• The poem Eliot gives Lee which contains the line "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands", is the poem "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond", by e.e. cummings.
  
  
• The e.e.cumings poem isn't actually on page 112 of the book that Elliot buys for Lee.
  
  
• Lloyd Nolan never lived to see the release of the picture. He died about four months before it premiered.
  
  
• The trailer contains a scene not included in the final film: April (Carrie Fisher) and David (Sam Waterston) appear in an art gallery discussing a painting.
  
  
• The book of poems by e.e. cummings is entitled ?Complete Poems 1913 ? 1962?, and the poem ?Somewhere? is on page 366.
  
  
• Woody Allen has said that he was inspired to write this film after a chance re-reading of Tolstoy's novel "Anna Karenina"
  
  
• With a box office gross of over $40 million, this film represented Woody Allen's most financially successful film until Match Point (2005) in 2005.
  
  
• Four of Mia Farrow's real-life children appear in this film. Two appear as Hannah's son and daughter in the movie, while the other two (including Soon-Yi Previn, who Woody Allen would eventually marry in 1997) appear as young guests in the Thanksgiving scenes.
  
  
• Lewis Black's first movie.
  
  
• Joanna Gleason's film debut.
  
  
• Maureen O'Sullivan (Norma) plays the mother of her real life daughter Mia Farrow (Hannah).
  
  
• The Stanislavsky Catering Company is based on an actual two-person catering company that Janet Margolin, who appeared with Woody Allen in Take the Money and Run (1969) and Annie Hall (1977), ran with fellow actress Jennifer Salt early in their careers between acting jobs.
  
  
• Kay Lenz was offered the lead role, but turned it down. Instead, Lenz starred in the horror B-movie House (1986).
  
  
• Brooke Shields was considered for the role of April, but she wasn't interested to play the part because she was attending at Princeton.
  
  

• SPOILER: In the film's present-day, the doctor tells Mickey that they'll never know what caused the loss of hearing in his ear. Later in the film, during a flashback to his first date with Holly, Mickey is exaggeratedly complaining about the loud music at a rock concert causing him to lose hearing in one ear.
  
  

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