What's Up, Tiger Lily? What's Up, Tiger Lily? What's Up, Tiger Lily? is a 1966 American comedy film directed by Woody Allen in his feature-length directorial debut. Allen took a Japanese spy film, "", and overdubbed it with completely original dialogue that had nothing to do with the plot of the original film. By putting in new scenes and rearranging the order of existing scenes, he completely changed the tone of the film from a James Bond clone into a comedy about the search for the world's best egg salad recipe. During post-production, Allen's original one-hour television version was expanded without his permission to
Louise Lasser Lasser was also interviewed about the series in the bonus features of the "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" Complete Series DVD box-set from Shout Factory which was released December 2013. In it, she reveals that the idea for Mary Hartman's infamous nervous breakdown at the end of the first season came after she wrote a 12-page letter suggesting the idea to Norman Lear. On July 24, 1976, Lasser hosted "Saturday Night Live" at the end of the first season. Her performance is best known for her opening monologue in which she re-creates a Mary Hartman-esque nervous breakdown and locks herself in