Zelig - Original Trailer

Leonard Zelig, the "human chameleon", is profiled in this mock-documentary. Director Woody Allen appears as Zelig in scenes that purport to be vintage newsreel clips of the 1920s and 1930s, but are actually clever recreations, "aged" and scratched-up Citizen Kane-style by special-effects maestros Joel Hynick, Stuart Robinson and R. Greenberg Associates. An appropriately pompous narrator details the life and times of Leonard Zelig, whose overwhelming desire for conformity is manifested in his ability to take on the facial and vocal characteristics of whomever he happens to be around at the moment. He shows up at batting practice with Babe Ruth, among William Randolph Hearst's guests as San Simeon, side by side with Pope Pius at the Vatican, and peering anxiously over the shoulder of Adolf Hitler at the Nuremberg Rally. Becoming a celebrity in his own right, Zelig inspires a song, a dance craze, and a Warner Bros. biopic. Mia Farrow plays Dr. Eudora Fletcher , a psychiatrist who tries to "reach" Zelig and ultimately falls in love with him (all of Farrow's scenes are in black-and-white and allegedly culled from archive footage; Ellen Garrison, whose resemblance to Farrow is uncanny, plays the older Dr. Fletcher in the interview sequences). In the manner of Reds, the influence of the fictional Leonard Zelig on popular culture is discussed by such real-life notables as Susan Sontag, Irving Howe, Saul Bellow and Dr. Bruno Bettenheim. Woody Allen - Leonard Zelig Mia Farrow - Dr. Eudora Fletcher Garrett M. Brown - Actor Zelig Stephanie Farrow - Sister Meryl Will Holt - Rally Chancellor Sol Lomita - Martin Geist John Rothman - Paul Deghuee Deborah Rush - Lita Fox Marianne Tatum - Actress Fletcher Mary Louise Wilson - Sister Ruth Susan Sontag - Herself Irving Howe - Himself Saul Bellow - Himself Bricktop - Herself Dr. Bruno Bettelheim - Himself Alice Beardsley - Telephone Operator Ralph Bell - Other Doctor Robert Berger - Zelig's Lawyer Prof. John Morion Blum - Himself Erma Campbell - Zelig's Wife Ken Chapin - On-Camera Interviewer Marvin Chatinover - Glandular Diagnosis Doctor Wendy Craig - Herself Jordan Derwin John Doumanian - Greek Waiter Howard Erskine - Hypodermic Doctor Sharon Ferrol - Miss Baker Ellen Garrison - Older Doctor Fletcher Gordon Gould - Radio [Voice] George Hamlin - Experimental Drugs Doctor Gale Hansen - Freshman No. 1 Ed Herlihy - Pathe News [Voice] Patrick Horgan - Narrator Will Hussung - Other Doctor Jeanine Jackson - Helen Gray Vincent Jerosa - Hearst Guest Michael Jeter - Freshman #2 Kim Johnston-Ulrich Gerald Klein - Hearst Guest Jurgen Kuehn - German UFA Newsreel [Voice] Richard Litt - Charles Koslow Peter McRobbie - Workers Rally Speaker Stanley Simmonds - Lita's Lawyer Kuno Sponholz - Oswald Pohl Jean Trowbridge - Dr. Fletcher's Mother Paula Trueman - Woman at Telephone Dimitri Vassilopoulos - Martinez Dwight Weist - Hearst Metrotone [Voice] Richard Whiting - Other Doctor Louise Wilson - Sister Ruth