{"id":11474,"date":"2014-12-28T13:30:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T17:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11474"},"modified":"2014-12-26T18:43:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T22:43:38","slug":"15-fun-facts-for-young-frankenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11474","title":{"rendered":"15 Fun Facts for “Young Frankenstein”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nYoung Frankenstein<\/strong><\/em>, despite turning 40 years old this year, remains one of the funniest movies of all time.<\/p>\n

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the release of Young Frankenstein<\/strong><\/em>, Mental_Floss<\/strong><\/a> presents 15 Fun Facts for Young Frankenstein’s 40th Anniversary<\/strong><\/a> by Marc Mancini<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Here are my three favorite facts…<\/p>\n

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2. STAR AND CO-WRITER GENE WILDER CONVINCED BROOKS TO FORGO HIS USUAL CAMEO APPEARANCE<\/h4>\n

Like Alfred Hitchcock, Brooks usually gave himself a part in his own films, from Blazing Saddles<\/em>\u2019 loopy governor to the wine-selling Rabbi of Robin Hood: Men in Tights<\/em>. These characters regularly broke the fourth wall and \u201cwinked\u201d at the audience, something Wilder felt would clash with Young Frankenstein<\/em>\u2019s tone. So, as a condition of his taking on the lead role, Wilder made Brooks agree<\/a> to remain off-camera.<\/p>\n

However, the director did provide some howling<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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6. SEVERAL PROPS HAD PREVIOUSLY APPEARED IN THE MASTERFUL 1931 FRANKENSTEIN<\/em> FILM<\/h4>\n

Taking his feature-length tribute to the next level, Brooks included much of the faux labequipment<\/a> used in that earlier picture.<\/p>\n

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9. GENE HACKMAN SPECIFICALLY ASKED WILDER FOR A PART INYOUNG FRANKENSTEIN<\/em> BECAUSE HE \u201cWANTED TO TRY COMEDY\u201d<\/h4>\n

According to the movie\u2019s Blu-Ray commentary, Hackman\u2014who\u2019d been thrice nominated for an Academy Award (and won one in 1971)\u2014learned about Young Frankenstein<\/em> through his frequent tennis partner Wilder and requested a role. Ultimately, \u2018Harold\u2019\u2014the lonely blind character he briefly portrayed\u2014sparked one of the most memorable sequences in comedic history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Young Frankenstein, despite turning 40 years old this year, remains one of the funniest movies of all time. In honor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11477,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11474\/revisions\/11477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}