Gene Wilder
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein
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Marty Feldman as Igor, a hunchbacked servant of Victor Frankenstein who works with Frederick. Cloris Leachman as Frau Blücher, the housekeeper of the Frankenstein estate. Teri Garr as Inga, a young woman who becomes Frederick's assistant. Kenneth Mars as Inspector Kemp, a one-eyed police inspector with a prosthetic arm.
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Garr gained prominence for her roles in Francis Ford Coppola's thriller The Conversation (1974), Mel Brooks' comedy Young Frankenstein (1974), and Steven Spielberg's science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
At first, Garr was cast in Young Frankenstein as Wilder’s onscreen bride-to-be Elizabeth; that was until Madeline Kahn, then due to play Frankenstein’s glamorous German assistant, Inga, asked to play Elizabeth instead. Though Garr says she was initially cast as Elizabeth “out of five hundred girls”, Kahn won the role off her simply by asking.
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper.
Dec 15, 1974 · Young Frankenstein: Directed by Mel Brooks. With Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn. An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
