Mel Brooks

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100 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 31 Oct

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Fresh Air · The Making Of ‘Young Frankenstein’ · 31 Oct 2025 podcast

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

And I had fun with them, but I also saluted the glory of the Western and the glory of James Whale's

You know, Frankenstein and Dracula.

You know, what does a little kid in Brooklyn have when it comes to art?

It ain't much, but it's those movies that you got in.

And we didn't have any money.

I was the baby boy.

of four all together with four brothers.

My mother lost her husband.

I lost my father.

I was only two.

And he died of tuberculosis.

And we were really, you know,

Poor.

I mean, dead poor.

And I remember my mother gave me three bottles.

I wanted desperately to see a Ken Maynard Western.

I mean, desperately.

And you get two other pictures with it.

You get three pictures for a dime.

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