with Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder ending the year with not one, but two films in the top five. Ten months after the release of "Blazing Saddles," the duo had another hit with "Young Frankenstein ...

Gene Wilder is known for making movies that offended some people, but this one really rubbed him up the wrong way.

Whether referencing the scientist or the monster, Frankenstein is a pop culture staple. Usually a figure of horror, Mel Brooks managed to turn him into a figure of comedy. Young Frankenstein ...

Wilder died in 2016 at 83 ... transforming 'The Producers' and 'Young Frankenstein' into successful Broadway musicals and, of course, helming notable comedies, Hollywood has suffered a lot ...

As a respected researcher and physician, Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, the grandson of the more famous Dr. Victor Frankenstein, who did experiments on bringing back the dead, tries to disassociate ...

That led to an interview with Mel Brooks, who said he would hire her for the role of Gene Wilder's German lab assistant in 1974's ''Young Frankenstein'' — if she could speak with a German accent.

Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre is to stage a new production of Mel Brooks’ musical comedy Young Frankenstein as part of its ...

And when “The Producers” came out, it became a classic in no small part because of that “curly-haired guy” — otherwise known as Gene Wilder. That story is one of many retold about the ...