and "Annie Hall" was no different. Much of the spontaneous clowning in the lobster-cooking scene (which was the first scene in the shoot) was truly spontaneous. So was the gag where Alvy sneezes ...

The film is considered Allen’s signature picture, and follows the relationship between dipsy out-of-towner Annie Hall (Keaton) and neurotic intellectual, Alvy Singer (Allen), in New York.

In "Annie Hall," Roberts played a Los Angeles-based producer whose success stings for Allen's Alvy Singer character. In "Hannah and Her Sisters," he was the sperm donor for Allen and screen wife ...