March 18, 1968 –
Mel Brook’s screamingly funny first film, a send-up of Broadway, The Producers, opened in New York City on this date.
Gene Wilder said in an interview on TCM that at the first reading of the script, he excused himself to leave for a dentist appointment he could not miss, when in fact he had to go to the unemployment office to collect a check for $55 he desperately needed at the time.
The Haus of Dcaligari 