Trivia / Broadway Danny Rose

• Cast the Runner-Up: Danny Aiello was offered the role of Lou Canova. He makes an uncredited cameo.
• Defictionalization: The Carnegie Deli did indeed add a Danny Rose to their menu, though it's a lot more substantial that the dish described in the film. It was the only sandwich based on a fictional person.
• Enforced Method Acting: Mia Farrow wears sunglasses the entire film because it was impossible for her to appear like a streetwise gun moll without them. The one time she has to be vulnerable, Farrow removes them.
• Fake Nationality: Mia Farrow as an Italian.
• Follow the Leader: Forget Paris, the Billy Crystal/Debra Winger Romantic Comedy that came out over a decade later, borrowed the structure of the film, specifically of a group of friends telling stories about a couple.
• What Could Have Been: Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone were considered for the role of Lou Canova. Apparently, Woody Allen initially offered the part to Stallone.
• Write Who You Know: Woody Allen's manager and producer, Jack Rollins, was the inspiration for the Danny Rose character. Rollins appears in the movie as himself.

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