Meryl Streep commenting that she played it on "automatic pilot". She performed the role of Katherine in "The Taming of the Shrew" for Shakespeare in the Park, and also played a supporting role in "Manhattan" (1979) for Woody Allen. Streep later said that Allen did not provide her with a complete script, giving her only the six pages of her own scenes, and did not permit her to improvise a word of her dialogue. In the drama "Kramer vs. Kramer", Streep was cast opposite Dustin Hoffman as an unhappily married woman who abandons her husband and child. Streep thought that the script
Manhattan (film) of "Embraceable You" plays over the credits. According to Allen, the idea for "Manhattan" originated from his love of George Gershwin's music. He was listening to one of the composer's albums of overtures and thought, "this would be a beautiful thing to make ... a movie in black and white ... a romantic movie". Allen has said that "Manhattan" was "like a mixture of what I was trying to do with "Annie Hall" and "Interiors."" He also said that his film deals with the problem of people trying to live a decent existence in an essentially junk-obsessed contemporary culture without