* ActorInspiredElement: The joke about Creator/BurtReynolds having his initials on his house came from the fact that he really did have his initials emblazed on everything in his house, even the doorknobs.
* ActorSharedBackground: All over the place. ''All'' of the stars are represented by their hobbies.
** Creator/PaulNewman is in a racing wheelchair (at the time, he was car racing as a hobby).
** Creator/MartyFeldman's character, Marty Eggs, is a personal allusion to Feldman's vegetarianism, which made him very fond of eggs.
* AllStarCast: And reportedly gotten on the cheap because nobody had to learn any lines!
* TheDanza: All three main characters count: Creator/MelBrooks as Mel Funn, Creator/MartyFeldman as Marty Eggs, and Creator/DomDeLuise as Dom Bell.
* {{Corpsing}}: Creator/LizaMinnelli legitimately cracked up when Mel, Dom and Marty fell over in their suits of armour and it was left in the film.
* CreatorCouple:
** The pregnant woman they pick up at the beginning of the movie and drop off at the hospital is Creator/DomDeLuise's real wife Carol Arthur. It isn't a double-family member, though - she was not actually pregnant at the time. Their youngest son, David, had been born a few years previously.
** There's also Creator/MelBrooks' wife, Creator/AnneBancroft.
* DeletedScenes: Creator/MelBrooks' biography states there was a scene in a restaurant where two giant lobsters pick out a human from a swimming tank to eat. Despite Mel and the crew loving it, the scene wasn't received well in the previews.
* IronyAsSheIsCast: Creator/MarcelMarceau playing a role AsHimself, the world's most famous mime...and the only audibly speaking character in the film.
* ProductionPosse: Double-layered. Creator/MartyFeldman and Creator/DomDeLuise are part of Creator/MelBrooks' posse, and they're playing members of Brooks' character's posse.
* ThoseTwoActors: Creator/DomDeLuise's frequent co-star, Creator/BurtReynolds also appears.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/MelBrooks wanted Creator/GeneWilder to star, but he was busy making ''Film/TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother''.
** The original screenplay also featured an actual movie filming scene on the set of the movie, which is also called ''Silent Movie''. That scene shows the set designer at work, girls on the set wearing hats shaped like a Christmas tree and the characters standing near a pool with no water at first. The line Mel Funn said in the scene via title card was "Lights! Camera! Action! No Sound!"
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