Gene Wilder
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I don't know what he meant, but okay.
Can we talk about your parents a little bit?
Your mother, as you mentioned, was a rockette.
You say she had wonderful legs.
She did what, hosiery ads, too, to show off her legs?
Yeah, she called herself Legs Lind.
And then she also was like a wardrobe person for several TV shows?
Yeah, I think a lot of dancers go into wardrobe afterwards.
I don't know why that happens, but it's true.
And she became a costumer in L.A., and my father died when I was 11, and he was in vaudeville, and they met in a Broadway show, my parents.
And then he came out to Hollywood to be in movies, and that didn't pan out, and he became very ill afterwards.
So my mother had to support three kids by her wits.
So she went and got a job in the studios as a costumer.
In fact, she was a costumer on Young Frankenstein before I even got the job.
And she told, don't tell anyone I'm your mother.
I said, what is this about?