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Spoiler alert! If you haven't seen it, don't think twice, bookmark our story for later. What's fact and what's fiction in "A Complete Unknown," the story of Bob Dylan's first four years of stardom? Join our Watch Party! But director James Mangold was not making a documentary, and as such felt free to play with events and dates in the early s to keep his movie moving along.

An online search about the facts in "A Complete Unknown" will turn up countless lists of date tweaks, character conflations and outright speculation that Mangold employed in his storytelling. We checked in with the director as well as one of the movie's stars, Edward Norton who plays Pete Seeger , to clarify a few particularly salient scenes.

Various accounts of Dylan's early days in New York suggest that he first met Pete Seeger when the veteran folkie caught the newcomer's act in Greenwich Village. A mesmerized Seeger quickly kept track of the ingenue. Norton feels confident that the two men were both present, perhaps on numerous occasions, at Guthrie's bedside, since Seeger was a close friend of the "This Land Is Your Land" composer and Dylan visited often.

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The movie "compressed some things, but Pete was Woody's longest road buddy, so if Pete and Bob didn't meet there first, they certainly were there together," says Norton. As for whether Dylan actually sang his composition "Song to Woody" to Guthrie, Norton says "it was his first composition, so I don't think there's any doubt he would have played it for him.

Bob Dylan's first serious New York love was Suze Rotolo, a politically active young woman who greatly influenced the musician. Rotolo famously is the woman walking arm in arm with Dylan down a frozen Greenwich Village street on the cover of his second album, 's "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. She was fair skinned and golden haired, full-blood Italian.