Corey Stroll made a splash on screens this past spring as the legendary American novellist Ernest Hemingway in Woody Allen's latest film, "Midnight in Paris."
Filming actually wrapped last summer, before Corey Stoll debuted as Det. Jaruszalski in NBC's "Law & Order: Los Angeles." However, by the time "Midnight in Paris" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this past May, "L&O: LA" had already been canceled. Stoll was able to take comfort in the fact that, though out of a job, he had a major role in one of the surprise hits of the summer, and had the chance to play a role most stars dream of.
In fact the film was full of dream-making roles as Allen painstakingly tried to recreate the glamor of Paris in the roaring '20s. Sharing the screen with Stoll's Hemingway were such stars as Adrien Brody playing legendary artist Salvador Dali, Tom Hiddleston -- who appeared in another summer hit, "Thor" -- as Hemingway cohort F. Scott Fitzgerald, and "Book of Daniel" star Alison Pill as Fitzgerald's wife Zelda.
TV great Kathy Bates appeared in the envy-worthy role of Gertrude Stein, a landmark feminist writer and Hemingway mentor.
As well, Argentine film star Marcial di Fonzo Bo got to portray Pablo Picasso, and French star Yves Heck played legendary Broadway songwriter Cole Porter.
Incredibly, all these legendary artists rubbed elbows in Paris at the time, which explains why that particular place and time has been so revered (enough for Allen to do a whole movie about that fact). And apparently Paris's golden age still resonates, as "Midnight in Paris" has become the prolific filmmaker's most successful movie to date.

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