00:01The Producers was Mel Brooks' first movie, and he won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
00:06His acceptance speech is worth watching.
00:09First, Frank Sinatra and Don Rickles do three minutes of shtick announcing the nominees,
00:13and in the process, they step all over Brooks' name.
00:17If he hadn't won, you might not even know he was nominated.
00:20When they announced Mel Brooks as the winner, he came to the stage and then said,
00:25I'd like to thank the Academy of Arts, Sciences, and Money.
00:29Then he faked forgetting his notes and said he'd say just what was in his heart.
00:35Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
00:37Wrapped it up by thanking producer Sidney Glazier and executive producer-distributor Joseph E. Levine
00:43before thanking his stars.
00:46I'd like to thank Zero Mostelli, said.
00:48I'd also like to thank Gene Wilder.
00:51I'd also like to thank Gene Wilder.
00:53I'd also like to thank Gene Wilder.
00:56Wilder, who earned an Oscar nod for his performance, went on to star in two more Mel Brooks comedies,
01:01both released in 1974, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, which Wilder co-wrote with Brooks.
01:08Coming up, we continue our night dedicated to con artists with William Powell co-starring in an MGM comedy
01:14with his most frequent leading lady, Myrna Loy.
01:16I Love You Again is next on TCM.
01:21Next on TCM, I Love You Again, then Mr. Lucky, and later, Nobody Lives Forever.
01:30You can't take it with you on TCM today.
