Sweet and Lowdown

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Sweet and Lowdown Trivia

The guitar that 'Sean Penn' plays in the movie is a Selmer Maccaferri of about 1932 (though it seems likely that it's a reproduction of the rare instrument and not an original) This is the same kind of guitar played and made famous by Django Reinhardt.
Woody Allen pays a clever homage to Federico Fellini's La strada (1954). The characters of Emmet (Penn) and Hattie (Morton) correspond to Zampano (Quinn) and Gelsomina (Masina) including the final scene with Emmet's/Zampano's breakdown and repentance.
DIRTRADE(Woody Allen): [writer]: Blanche is a novelist.
'Rosie ODonnell was offered the role of Hattie. She turned it down due to her disdain for Allen's relationship with Soon-Yi Previn.
Woody Allen had planned an initial version of this movie (originally titled "The Jazz Baby") as his first film for United Artists. When UA insisted upon a comedy, Allen shelved the idea for nearly three decades.
"Sweet and Low-Down", by George Gershwin, is a song on the soundtrack of Woody Allen's Manhattan.
Samantha Morton received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and she has no spoken lines at all.
The scene towards the end of the film in which Emmet Ray is drunk in a New York bar was filmed in "Chumleys," a bar on Bedford Street in Greenwich Village.
In the scene where Emmet Ray sees Django Reinhardt for the first time at the gas station and faints, right behind the trees is the Nyack High School Football team. They were asked to be quiet during the filming of the scene and had a stop their practice a number of times.