Letty_Aronson

Letty Aronson

Letty Aronson

American film producer


Ellen Letty Aronson (née Konigsberg;[1] born November 30, 1943) is an American film producer. She is the younger sister of writer and director Woody Allen.[2]

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Personal life

Aronson was born Ellen Letty Konigsberg in 1943 in New York City,[3] to Nettie (née Cherry) and Martin Königsberg,[4] and was raised in Midwood, Brooklyn, New York.[5] Her older brother is writer and director Woody Allen. Aronson comes from a Jewish family; her grandparents were from Lithuania and Austria. She was educated at Brooklyn College and New York University. Aronson was married to Sidney Aronson, an elementary school principal in Brooklyn who died in 2002.[6] They had three children together, Christopher, Erika, and Alexa.[7]

Career

She has produced many of her brother Woody Allen's films including Bullets over Broadway (1994), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Deconstructing Harry (1997), Celebrity (1998), The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001), Anything Else (2003), Melinda and Melinda (2004), Match Point (2005), Scoop (2006), Cassandra's Dream (2007), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Whatever Works (2009), You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011), To Rome with Love (2012), and Blue Jasmine (2013).

Filmography

As a producer

Awards and nominations

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References

  1. Hoffman, Barbara, "Woody and his sister", The New York Post, October 15, 2011
  2. "Woody Allen's Sister Says His Daughter Dylan Farrow 'Capitalized' on the #MeToo Movement". People. January 28, 2018.
  3. Woody Allen; Robert E. Kapsis; Kathie Coblentz (2006). Woody Allen: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 23–. ISBN 978-1-57806-793-0.
  4. "Martin Konigsberg, 100, Woody Allen's Father". The New York Times. January 11, 2001. Retrieved August 9, 2015.
  5. Toy, Vivian S. (December 4, 2009). "Living In Midwood, Brooklyn". The New York Times. Retrieved August 9, 2015.
  6. "Paid Notice: Deaths ARONSON, SIDNEY". The New York Times. May 19, 2002. Retrieved August 9, 2015.
  7. "Paid Notice: Deaths ARONSON, SIDNEY". New York Times. May 19, 2002. Retrieved August 8, 2012.

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