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Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical postmodernist [4] [5] Western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg and Alan Uger, based on a story treatment by Bergman. [6] The film stars Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder.
Born in Carthage, Missouri and raised in Twin Falls, Idaho and Pomona, California, [4] [2] [7] [8] Hilton is the daughter of Erma Jeane Upp and Eugene M. Rapp, a newscaster on WMBH in Joplin, Missouri; [9] they divorced roughly 4 months after her birth, with Upp awarded sole custody and $7 a week in child support. [10]
Brooks receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010. Mel Brooks is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker of the stage, television, and screen. He started his work as a comedy writer, actor, and then director of 11 feature films including The Producers (1967), Young Frankenstein (1974), and Blazing Saddles (1974).
FLASHBACKS: The director’s groundbreaking satire of bigotry had a wild journey to the screen, with drugs in the writers’ room and attempts to prohibit almost all of its controversial scenes.
Claude Ennis "Jack" Starrett Jr. [1] (November 2, 1936 – March 27, 1989) was an American actor and film director. [2]Starrett is perhaps best known for his role as Gabby Johnson, a parody of George "Gabby" Hayes, in the 1974 film Blazing Saddles and is also known for his role as the brutal policeman Art Galt in the 1982 action film First Blood.
When filming was about to begin in London, Wilder received an urgent call from Brooks, who was filming Blazing Saddles, offering Wilder the role of the "Waco Kid" after Dan Dailey dropped out at the last minute, while Gig Young became too ill to continue. Wilder shot his scenes for Blazing Saddles and immediately afterwards filmed The Little ...
Written by Brooks and a team of writers that included the late, great Richard Pryor, Blazing Saddles remains the 96-year-old director's biggest box-office hit, and picked up three Oscar ...
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