Actress Elaine May (1932)

Woody Allen wrote and directed Crisis in Six Scenes (2016) for Amazon Studios, a half-hour television miniseries. For the first time, he wrote and directed six episodes of the half-hour series for television. The series premiered on September 30, 2016, to generally unfavorable reviews. Allen said in May 2016 that there will only be one season to the series. It is available exclusively on Amazon Video. Amid a tumultuous era in America, a suburban family in the 1960’s is upended by an unexpected visitor in Crisis in Six Scenes, the comedy series that debuted on Amazon ...

Small Time Crooks (2000), an American crime-comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen, follows the story of career criminal Ray and his cohorts as they hatch a plan to lease a defunct pizzeria. Their goal? To dig a tunnel from the basement of the restaurant to a nearby bank. In order to cover their tracks, Ray’s wife Frenchy cleverly disguises their activities, selling cookies out of the front of the establishment. However, their robbery scheme proves to be unsuccessful, while their cookie business becomes wildly popular. As they expand their enterprise through franchising, the once down-and-out duo become ...