And Mel Brooks plays a psychiatrist who's become the new director of the Institute for the Very, Very Nervous. This is a parody of a lot of different Alfred Hitchcock films. GROSS: I want to play a scene from another Mel Brooks movie that you were in "High Anxiety." I love this film. And here it is - stay close to the candles the staircase can be treacherous - which means we've already lost a couple of people (laughter). And then Mel came up to me, climbed up the steps and whispered in my ear. And I turn - I say, stay close to the candles the staircase can be treacherous. Remember, in the castle, I'm going to show them around, and I had a candelabra with the candles not lit. I was going up the steps with Gene and the other two (laughter). GROSS: So what did you learn about comedy working with Mel Brooks? GROSS: So it's like, they're threatening the horses with a glue factory. I'm not sure that's true, but it sure is funny. LEACHMAN: Mel told me a few years ago that (laughter) Blucher meant glue. GROSS: The running gag in "Young Frankenstein" is whenever anybody says Frau Blucher, the horses whinny. I was so careful to try to do it right (laughter). LEACHMAN: When I first came out the door and I say, I am Frau Blucher, I think it's said with such measurement. And I think one of them was Mel Brooks' mother. So all the time when they were shooting, I kept saying, hello, excuse me, do you know a German accent, to everybody. Now, I'd go on the set, and I don't have any idea how to be Frau Blucher or have any German accent. GROSS: Well, how did you figure out how to play Frau Blucher? Frankenstein) And it was you who left my grandfather's book out for me to find. Frankenstein) That was your cigar smoldering in the ashtray. Frankenstein) To get us into the laboratory. Frankenstein) You played that music in the middle of the night. Frankenstein) Then it was you all the time. Your grandfather used to play it to the creature he was making. It reaches the soul when words are useless. LEACHMAN: (As Frau Blucher) I'm not afraid. Rotten.įELDMAN: (As Igor) Ix-nay on the otten-ray (ph). LEACHMAN: (As Frau Blucher) It's not rotten. PETER BOYLE: (As Frankenstein's monster, vocalizing). LEACHMAN: (As Frau Blucher) No, he won't - not this one. Frankenstein) Are you insane? He'll kill you. LEACHMAN: (As Frau Blucher) I'm going to set him free. GROSS: (Laughter) - With his two assistants, where he finds you releasing the monster from his restraints. And in this scene, Gene Wilder, the young Doctor Frankenstein, goes to the lab. And your character, Frau Blucher, is one of the servants there, and she was in love with the mad scientist. GROSS: Then he learns he's inherited the Frankenstein estate, so he goes to the mansion in Transylvania. GROSS: And he's the grandson of the famous mad scientist who created the monster. GROSS: And just - I want to play a scene from this. The first was "Young Frankenstein," in which you played Frau Blucher. You've made two or three movies with Mel Brooks. GROSS: I want to talk about some of your movies. I had the chance to interview her in 2009. She appeared on many primetime TV shows, was nominated for 22 Emmys and won eight. GROSS: Cloris Leachman won an Oscar for her performance in the 1971 film "The Last Picture Show." On television, she co-starred on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" as Mary's neighbor and landlady, Phyllis, which led to her own spinoff series, "Phyllis," in 1975. Frankenstein) Igor, would you bring the bags as soon as you're finished, please? LEACHMAN: (As Frau Blucher) Your rooms have been prepared, Herr Doctor. Frankenstein) I wonder what's got into them. Frederick Frankenstein) How do you do? I am Dr. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN")ĬLORIS LEACHMAN: (As Frau Blucher) I am Frau Blucher. She co-starred in two Mel Brooks films, "High Anxiety" and "Young Frankenstein." Here she is in Young Frankenstein as Frau Blucher, with Gene Wilder as Dr. We're going to remember actress Cloris Leachman.
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