Offscreen, Brooks was one-half of an iconic Hollywood power couple. He helped shape and define several decades of film in the 20th century, with Brooks writing and directing (and often casting himself in) classics such as Young Frankenstein, The Producers, Spaceballs, and History of the World, Part I. Starting out as a teenage busboy and performer in the Catskills, the Brooklyn native went on to create an unmatched brand of comedy that blended cutting social commentary, satire, broad and bawdy humor, and Borscht Belt shtick. Photo: New York Daily News Archive/NY Daily News via Getty Imagesįew entertainers in history have influenced comedy as much as Mel Brooks has over the course of his 80-year (and running) career. Mel Brooks and his future wife, Anne Bancroft, after learning she had won an Academy Award in 1963.
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