Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
Genre: Comedy Actors: Adolf Hitler, Adolphe Menjou, Al Capone, Alice Beardsley, Anton Marco, Arthur Anderson, Babe Ruth, Bernice Dowis, Bernie Herold, Billy Rose, Bobby Jones, Bubba Dean Rambo, Calvin Coolidge, Carole Lombard, Charles A. Lindbergh, Charles Denny, Charlie Chaplin, Claire Windsor, Deborah Rush, Dimitri Vassilopoulos, Dolores del Río, Dorothy Mackaill, Dwight Weist, Ed Herlihy, Ed Lane, Edward McPhillips, Eli Resnick, Elizabeth Kaitan, Elizabeth Rothschild, Ellen Garrison, Erma Campbell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fanny Brice, Francis Beggins, Franz Pfeffer von Salomon, Franz von Epp, Gale Hansen, Garrett M. Brown, George Hamlin, Gerald Klein, Gregor Strasser, Harold 'Red' Grange, Hermann Göring, Howard Erskine, Irving Howe, Jack Cannon, James Cagney, Jean Trowbridge, Jeanine Jackson, Jimmy Walker, Joe DiMaggio, John Buckwalter, John Doumanian, John Rothman, Jon Hayden, Joseph Goebbels, Josephine Baker, Julius Schaub, Julius Streicher, Ken Chapin, Kim Johnston Ulrich, Kuno Sponholz, Lou Gehrig, Louise Deitch, Mae Questel, Marianne Tatum, Marie Dressler, Marion Davies, Marshall Cole Sr., Marvin Chatinover, Mary Louise Wilson, Mia Farrow, Michael Blevins, Michael Jeter, Michael Kell, Patrick Horgan, Paul Nevens, Paula Trueman, Peter McRobbie, Ralph Bell, Richard Litt, Richard Whiting, Robert Berger, Robert Iglesia, Robert Ley, Rudolf Heß, Ruth Leon Weiman, Saul Bellow, Sepp Dietrich, Sharon Ferrol-Young, Sherman Loud, Sol Lomita, Stanley Simmonds, Stanley Swerdlow, Stephanie Farrow, Susan Sontag, Theodore R. Smits, Tom Mix, Tug Wilson, Vincent Jerman-Jerosa, Wilhelm Brückner, Will Hussung, William Haines, William Randolph Hearst, Willy Holt, Woody Allen Directors: Woody Allen Production: Orion Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures