The effect was crude, however, compared to the bigger-budgeted Woody Allen film Zelig, which was already being filmed.

The 1983 Woody Allen film Zelig was an elaborate mix of real newsreel footage from the 1930s and fake footage mixed together with fake interviews with real actors playing themselves as well as actors playing roles to tell the story of the Allen character and presented as a documentary.

Interviewed in one of the witness shots, Bruno Bettelheim makes the following comment: The question of whether Zelig was a psychotic or merely extremely neurotic was a question that was endlessly discussed among his doctors.

In Empire magazine's poll of the 500 greatest movies ever made, Zelig was ranked number 408.

Allen was so impressed with Herlihy's voice that he used him in several of his films in the 1980s, including Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days and Zelig ; his other film credits included Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy and Tim Burton's Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

In 1961 she was seen as a middle-aged bride in Jerry Lewis ' It's Only Money, one of Fanny Brice's mother's card-playing friends at the start of the film Funny Girl in 1968, and as the " Jewish Mama from Hell " in Woody Allen's New York Stories in 1989 in Woody's segment titled " Oedipus Wrecks "; she had earlier sung the song " Chameleon Days " on the soundtrack for Allen's film Zelig in 1983.

The play Appointment in Limbo written by McCabe was premiered by Zelig Theatre in Galway's Town Hall Theatre in 2008.

The fourth Kotzker Rebbe was Rabbi Yitzchak Zelig Morgenstern ( the Sokolover Rebbe, 1866 – 1940 ).

Sigmund Mogulesko ( December 16, 1858 – February 4, 1914 ) — Yiddish: זעליק מא ָ גולעסקא ָ Zelik Mogulesko, first name also sometimes given as Zigmund, Siegmund, Zelig, or Selig, last name sometimes spelled Mogulescu — was a singer, actor, and composer in the Yiddish theater, originally from Kalarash, Bessarabia ( now Călăraşi in Moldova ).

As Hakham of Vilna he was infamous for his confrontations with such Jewish community figures as Zelig Kalmanovich.

The scene, however, was constructed on the memories of Zelig Burkhut, survivor of Plaszow ( and other work camps ).

" Big " Jack Zelig ( May 13, 1888 – October 5, 1912 ) was a Jewish American New York City gangster and one of the last leaders of the Monk Eastman Gang.

Born as Zelig Harry Lefkowitz, by the time he was six years old Zelig was a well-known pickpocket and thief while growing up on New York's Lower East Side

During this period, Zelig was also known as " The Big Yid.

Zelig was later released due to his political connections and he was informed by a member that Sirocco and Tricker were planning on murdering him upon his release.

The assassin, a gunman named Julie Morrell, was lured by Zelig to The Stuyvesant Casino ( 140 Second Avenue, now the Ukrainian National Home ) where he was killed, possibly while intoxicated, by the gang leader on December 2, 1911.

Footage of Jimmy Walker is used in the 1983 Woody Allen film Zelig, with Walker being one the guests during Zelig's visit to Randolph Hearst's mansion, San Simeon.

Zelig is a 1983 American film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Allen and Mia Farrow.

* In Woody Allen's 1983 film Zelig, archival footage is shown of Mix attending a party at Hearst Castle near San Simeon, California.

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* Zelig, a 1983 Woody Allen film

* Jack Zelig ( 1888 – 1912 ), an American gangster

His film roles include Zelig, Waterworld, Air Bud, The Green Mile and The Polar Express among many others.

Set in the 1920s and 1930s, the film focuses on Leonard Zelig, a nondescript man who has the ability to transform his appearance to that of the people who surround him.

Contrasting the film's vintage black-and-white film footage, these persons appear in color segments as themselves, commenting in the present day on the Zelig phenomenon as if it really happened.

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" Historian Sally Bedell Smith compared him to Zelig, the character in Woody Allen's film who is always present in the back row at major events.

Like several of Allen's other films ( e. g., Zelig ), Sweet and Lowdown is occasionally interrupted by interviews with critics and biographers like Allen, Nat Hentoff, and Douglas McGrath, who comment on the film's plot as if the characters were real-life people.

He is first observed at a party by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who notes that Zelig related to the affluent guests in a thick, refined accent and shared their republican sympathies, but while in the kitchen with the servants adopted a ruder tone and seemed to be more of a democrat.

In addition, Dick Hyman composed a number of tunes allegedly inspired by the Zelig phenomenon, including " Leonard the Lizard ", " Reptile Eyes ", " You May Be Six People, But I Love You ", " Doin ' the Chameleon ", " The Changing Man Concerto ", and " Chameleon Days ", the latter performed by Mae Questel, the voice of Betty Boop.

It ran on Italia 1 from 2004 to 2005 with a couple interpreted by famous comedian Fabio De Luigi ( already famous for its collaboration with Gialappa's Band ) and Michelle Hunziker ( veteran of Zelig Circus ).

* Divina Mina by Dora Giannetti ( Zelig 1998 )

Mainly operating around 125th Street, the gang generally committed muggings and robberies although they were occasionally hired out for murder by Zelig.

The Jewish Kingdom of Khazar: The Rise and Fall of the Legendary Country of Converts by Rabbi Zelig Shachnowitz, Frankfurt-On-The-Main, 1928.

* December 2-Julie Morrell, an assassin hired by Sirocco and Tricker to murder Zelig, is lured to a Second Avenue nightclub and killed.

* October 5-Eastman Gang leader Jack Zelig is killed by " Red " Phil Davidson on a Second Avenue street car trolley.

After being arrested in 1911 for robbing a brothel, Sirocco and Tricker attempted to gain leadership of the gang by refusing to bail out Zelig.

As Zelig left the Criminal Courts on afternoon on June 3, 1912, he was shot through the neck by a Five Points gunman named Charley Torti, who was a known associate of Louis Pioggi, aka Louie the Lump, who had gunned down Zelig's mentor, Kid Twist Zwerbach, four years earlier.

The day before he could do so, on October 5, 1912, Zelig was shot behind the ear and killed by " Boston Red " Phil Davidson ( of 111 E. 7th Street ) while riding on a 2nd Avenue trolley car while passing East 13th Street.

Allen plays Zelig, a curiously nondescript enigma who is discovered for his remarkable ability to transform himself to resemble anyone he's near.

Allen plays Leonard Zelig, a nondescript enigma who, out of his desire to fit in and be liked, takes on the characteristics of strong personalities around him.