Silent Movie | film by Brooks [1976] | Britannica (original) (raw)

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discussed in biography

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  In Mel Brooks: Films of the 1970s
  Less successful was Silent Movie (1976), in which Brooks himself starred as a washed-up director who persuades the head of a motion-picture studio (played by Caesar) to make a silent picture. Without dialogue and loaded with sight gags, Silent Movie was less a spoof than an affectionate homage…
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role of Bancroft

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  In Anne Bancroft
  Mel Brooks—Silent Movie (1976), To Be or Not to Be (1983), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995). For one of Bancroft’s occasional returns to the stage— Golda (1977)—she received a third Tony nomination, and television roles in PBS’s Mrs. Cage (1992) and CBS’s Oldest Living…
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