SEE Gene Wilder movies: 12 greatest films ranked worst to best Part satire, part loving homage to the horror classics of yesteryear, "Young Frankenstein" was shot in black-and-white, a practice ...

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

SEE ALSO: Gene Wilder, comedy titan who played 'Willy Wonka' and 'Young Frankenstein,' dead at 83 His smiling face, taken from a screengrab of the 1971 movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.