June 17, 1976 –
Mel Brooks’ very silly send up of Silent Films, Silent Movie, starring Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Bernadette Peters and Sid Caesar opened in the US on this date.
The movie features the first onscreen pairing of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, who dance a tango together. The couple were married from 1964 until Bancroft’s death in 2005. Aside from an uncredited cameo as a congregation member in Blazing Saddles, Bancroft had not previously appeared in any of her husband’s films. They later starred together in To Be or Not to Be, and Bancroft starred in The Elephant Man and 84 Charing Cross Road, which were produced by Brooks.
The Haus of Dcaligari 