The late Gene Wilder not only played comedy, but wrote it. "Young Frankenstein," for my money Mel Brook's best film, was Wilder's idea, and the script was a joint effort by the two comic geniuses. Cloris Leachman's creepy cameo as Frau Blucher, the housekeeper and apparent mistress of the late monster-maker, qualifies as one of the funniest moments on the American screen. Horses rear in terror at the mention of her name. She gazes at her dead lover's grandson with a perverse lust that would grow fungus on a billiard ball. And she was in the film for a reason.
"Frau Blucher" was the married name of the renegade Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt, the erstwhile mistress of the philosopher and sometime Nazi Party member Martin Heidegger.
Who' IMO, would've been Nazi herself if they were taking Jews |