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The Producers is a 1967 American satirical black comedy film. It was written and directed by Mel Brooks, and stars Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, and Kenneth Mars.The film is about a mild-mannered accountant and a con artist theater producer who scheme to get rich by fraudulently overselling interests in a stage musical designed to fail.
Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and songwriter.With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. [1]
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).
Mel Brooks July 26, 1991 Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer $4,102,526: Comedy drama: 18% [11] 1992: The Vagrant: Chris Walas May 15, 1992 $5,900: Comedy horror: N/A 1993: Robin Hood: Men in Tights: Mel Brooks July 28, 1993 20th Century Fox $35,739,755: Musical adventure comedy 43% [12] 1995: Dracula: Dead and Loving It: December 22, 1995 Columbia ...
Mel Brooks has left his mark in cinema with his long-lasting, six decade plus career -- and now he's literally left his mark in Hollywood, Reuters video reports. The 88-year-old funnyman and ...
It also echoes Brooks's 1967 film The Producers, with the lines "Don't be stupid, be a smarty. Come and join the Nazi Party," [2] taken from the song "Springtime for Hitler". In the accompanying music video, Brooks is dressed like Adolf Hitler and raps about the key events in Hitler's life in Nazi Germany.
In 2023, Hulu released History of the World: Part II as a sketch comedy miniseries. Created by Nick Kroll , Wanda Sykes , and Ike Barinholtz , the series was a follow-up to Brooks' 1981 film and ...
Spaceballs is a 1987 American space opera parody film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks.It primarily parodies the original Star Wars trilogy, but also of other popular franchises such as Star Trek, Alien, The Wizard of Oz, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, and Transformers.