![]() "I don't think so, because I went too far, with the use of the N-word, with cowboys sitting around a camp farting. Mankiewicz asked, "You think 'Blazing Saddles' would succeed today? Could it get made today?" We just seem to be going …' She said, you know, 'Bull, it's not kismet.'" You know, by the fourth or fifth time, I'd say, 'It's kismet. ![]() "Every night, wherever she went, I would show up. Then, completely smitten, Brooks began to pursue her, rather relentlessly. "So, 'What are you doing?' She said, 'I have to see somebody at the William Morris Agency.' I said, 'I gotta see him, too!' I went with her. And I scream out, 'Anne Bancroft, I love you!' She said, 'Who are you?' I said, 'I'm Mel Brooks!' She said, 'I got your record!' You know, I did a record with Carl Reiner, '2000 Year Old Man.' And it was just like, I said, 'Kismet? Luck? What?' Anyway, I'm in love. "And she's wearing a white gown and she has jet black, shiny hair and the most beautiful eyes, and the most beautiful figure. Brooks, four years removed from his long run as a comedy writer for Sid Caesar's TV shows, walked over with a friend to watch. They'd met, he recalled, on February 5, 1961, at a taping of a Perry Como TV special. I think it was Darryl Zanuck gave her a list of people and she said, 'I like Bancroft.'"Īnd Brooks really liked Bancroft, long before the day they met. ![]() She was Anna Maria Louisa Italiano Italiano's her real name. Brooks said, "She was Anne Marno for a while. ![]()
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