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The Purple Rose of Cairo (Original title)
Date: 1985 (Copyright)

Country: USA

Directed by: Woody Allen

Production company billing: ©1985. Orion Pictures Corporation. a Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe production MPAA: 27334
Synopsis: Comedy about a woman, Cecilia, who loves films and the escape they offer. While she is watching 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' the hero, Tom Baxter, steps out of the film and asks Cecilia to show him something of real life.

Genres:
Comedy, Fantasy
Releases
Date: 01 March 1985Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour and Black and White - DeLuxe - Sound - MonoRuntime: 82 mins Length: 7358 FeetLanguage: English

Credits (86)
©/Production Company: Orion Pictures Corporation, Executive Producer: Charles H. Joffe, Produced by: Robert Greenhut, Associate Producer: Michael Peyser, Associate Producer: Gail Sicilia, Studio Manager: Steve Rose, Production Manager: Michael Peyser, Production Co-ordinator: Helen Robin, Production Auditor: Joseph Hartwick, Assistant Production Auditor: Peter Lombardi, Location Manager: Jonathan Filley, Location Scout: Mary Kane, Location Scout: John Healy, Location Scout: Dana Robin, Barry Strugatz, Production Staff: Tony Adler, Production Staff: James Davis, Production Staff: James Greenhut, Production Staff: Amy Herman, Production Staff: Joseph Pierson, Michael Wild, Assistant Director (1st): Thomas Reilly, Assistant Director (2nd): James Chory, Assistant to Mr Allen: Jane Read Martin, DGA Trainee: Liz Ryan, Script Supervisor: Kay Chapin, Casting: Juliet Taylor, Casting Assistant: Ellen Lewis, Additional Casting: Todd Michael Thaler, Written by: Woody Allen, Director of Photography: Gordon Willis, Camera Operator: Dick Mingalone, Assistant Cameraman: Douglas C. Hart, Assistant Cameraman (2nd): Bob Paone, Gaffer: Ray Quinlan, Best Boy: James Fitzpatrick, Key Grip: Bob Ward, Grip: Ronald Burke, Still Photographer: Brian Hamill, Process Co-ordinator: Don Hansard, Editor: Susan E. Morse, Assistant Film Editor: Richard Nord, Apprentice Film Editor: Kris Cole, Production Designer: Stuart Wurtzel, Assistant to Mr Wurtzel: Dan Leigh, Art Director: Edward Pisoni, Art Department Co-ordinator: Prudence Farrow, Assistant Art Director: W. Steven Graham, Set Decorator: Carol Joffe, Additional Set Decorator: Justin Scoppa, Chief Set Dresser: Dave Weinman, Set Dresser: Kevin McCarthy, Master Scenic Artist: James Sorice, Standby Scenic Artist: Cosmo Sorice, Property Master: James Mazzola, Property Man: Kenneth Vogt, Construction Grip: James Gartland Jr, Chief Carpenter: Ron Petagna, Costume Designer: Jeffrey Kurland, Associate to Mr Kurland: Tom Mckinley, Costume Assistant: Isis Mussenden, Men's Wardrobe Supervisor: Bill Christians, Women's Wardrobe Supervisor: Patricia Eiben, Make-up Design: Fern Buchner, Hair Design: Romaine Greene, Opticals: R/Greenberg Associates, Opticals: The Optical House, Projectionist: Carl Turnquest Jr, Process Projectionist: Andrew Hansard, Negative Matching: J.G. Films Inc, Original Music by: Dick Hyman, Music Co-ordinator: Joe Malin, Music Recording Supervisor: Walter Levinsky, Music Recording Engineer: Roy B. Yokelson, National Recording Studios, Production Sound Mixer: James Sabat, Sound Recordist: Frank Graziadei, Boom Man: Louis Sabat, Re-recording Mixer: Rick Dior, Trans/Audio, Sound Editor: Dan Lieberstein, Assistant Sound Editor: Stuart Lieberman, Martin Levenstein, Apprentice Sound Editor: Kathleen Earle Killeen, Transportation Captain: Harry Leavey
Cast (66)
Mia Farrow (Cecilia), Jeff Daniels (Tom Baxter/Gil Shepherd), Danny Aiello (Monk), Dianne Wiest (Emma), Milo O'Shea (Father Donnelly), Van Johnson (Larry), Deborah Rush (Rita), Zoe Caldwell (The Countess), Irving Metzman (theatre manager), John Wood (Jason), John Rothman (Mr Hirsh's lawyer), Stephanie Farrow (Cecilia's sister), Michael Tucker (Gil's agent), Alexander H. Cohen (Raoul Hirsh), Annie Joe Edwards (Delilah), Camille Saviola (Olga), Peter McRobbie (the communist), Karen Akers (Kitty Haynes), Juliana Donald (usherette), Edward Herrmann (Henry), David Kieserman (diner boss), Elaine Grollman, Victoria Zussin, Mark Hammond, Wade Barnes, Joseph G. Graham, Don Quigley, Maurice Brenner (diner patron), Paul Herman, Rick Petrucelli, Peter Castellotti (penny pitcher), Milton Seaman, Mimi Weddell (ticket buyer), Tom Degidon (ticket taker), Mary Hedahl (popcorn seller), Eugene Anthony (Arturo), Ebb Miller (bandleader), Margaret Thompson, George Hamlin, Helen Hanft, Leo Postrel, Helen Miller, George Martin, Crystal Field (movie audience), Ken Chapin, Robert Trebor (reporter), Benjamin Rayson, Jean Shevlin, Albert S. Bennett, Martha Sherrill, Gretchen Maclane, Edwin Bordo (moviegoer), Andrew Murphy (policeman 1), Thomas Kubiak (policeman 2), Raymond Serra (Hollywood executive), George J. Manos (press agent), David Tice (waiter), James Lynch (maître d'), Sydney Blake ('Variety' reporter), Peter Von Berg (drugstore customer), David Weber (photo double), Glenne Headly, Willie Tjan, Lela Ivey, Drinda La Lumia (hooker), Loretta Tupper (music store owner)