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Leopold "Leo" Bloom is a timid and mild-mannered accountant, [1] prone to panic attacks and who keeps a fragment of his childhood blue blanket in his pocket to calm himself. . Towards the end of the film, when Leo tries to turn himself in and use his accountant books as evidence, Max stops Leo on the way out the door and steals Leo's books, causing Leo to lose his temper and attack Max in a ...
The Producers is a 1967 American satirical black comedy film. It was directed and written 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.
Kenneth Mars (April 4, 1935 – February 12, 2011) [1] was an American actor. He appeared in two Mel Brooks films: as the deranged Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in The Producers (1967) and Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Friedrich Kemp in Young Frankenstein (1974). [2]
The film grossed $19 million at the box office in North America and another $18 million overseas, which brings the worldwide total of $38 million. The film’s failure was partly due to its competition with King Kong (another Universal film), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Fun with Dick and Jane. [4]
He played a wide variety of supporting roles and was a prolific character actor. During the 1960s, he played small roles in madcap comedies, usually portraying caricatures of counterculture personalities, such as the hedonistic but mother-obsessed Sylvester Marcus in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and the hippie actor Lorenzo Saint ...
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).
The play starts with the musical number, "Springtime for Hitler".Accompanied by dancing stormtroopers, who at one point form a Busby Berkeley–style swastika, [2] the play immediately horrifies everyone in the audience except the author, and one lone viewer who breaks into applause—only for the latter to get pummeled by other disgusted theatergoers.
The Producers is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Mel Brooks and a book by Brooks and Thomas Meehan. It is adapted from Brooks's 1967 film of the same name. The story concerns two theatrical producers who scheme to get rich by fraudulently overselling interests in a Broadway musical designed to fail. Complications arise when the show ...