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* {{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.
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* 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.
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** Creator/MelBrooks wanted Creator/GeneWilder to star, but he was busy making ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother''.
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** Creator/MelBrooks wanted Creator/GeneWilder to star, but he was busy making ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother''.''Film/TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother''.
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* DeletedScenes: Brooks' 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.
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* 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:Brooks' 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.
** 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.
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* ProductionPosse: Double-layered. Feldman and [=DeLuise=] are part of Brooks' posse, and they're playing members of Brooks' character's posse. In addition, [=DeLuise's=] frequent co-star, Burt Reynolds also appears.
* RealLifeRelative: 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.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: 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!"
* RealLifeRelative: 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.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: 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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* ProductionPosse: Double-layered. Feldman Creator/MartyFeldman and [=DeLuise=] Creator/DomDeLuise are part of Brooks' Creator/MelBrooks' posse, and they're playing members of Brooks' character's posse. In addition, [=DeLuise's=] frequent co-star, Burt Reynolds also appears.
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*RealLifeRelative: The pregnant woman they pick up at the beginning of the movie and drop off at the hospital is ThoseTwoActors: 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'sfrequent co-star, Creator/BurtReynolds also Creator/MelBrooks' wife, Creator/AnneBancroft.
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** Creator/MelBrooks wanted Creator/GeneWilder to star, but he was busy making ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother''.
** 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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** Creator/MelBrooks wanted Creator/GeneWilder to star, but he was busy making ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother''.
** 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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* IronyAsSheIsCast: Creator/MarcelMarceau playing a role AsHimself, the world's most famous mime...and the only audibly speaking character in the film.
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* AllStarCast: And reportedly gotten on the cheep because nobody had to learn any lines!
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* AllStarCast: And reportedly gotten on the cheep cheap because nobody had to learn any lines!
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* ActorAllusion: All over the place. ''All'' of the stars are represented by their hobbies.
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* ActorAllusion: ActorSharedBackground: All over the place. ''All'' of the stars are represented by their hobbies.
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* CastingGag: The only spoken word of dialogue in the entire movie comes from a ''mime''.
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* ProductionPosse: Double-layered. Feldman and [=DeLuise=] are part of Brooks' posse, and they're playing members of Brooks' character's posse.
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* ProductionPosse: Double-layered. Feldman and [=DeLuise=] are part of Brooks' posse, and they're playing members of Brooks' character's posse. In addition, [=DeLuise's=] frequent co-star, Burt Reynolds also appears.
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** Paul Newman is in a racing wheelchair (at the time, he was car racing as a hobby).
** Marty Feldman's character, Marty Eggs, is a personal allusion to Feldman's vegetarianism, which made him very fond of eggs.
** Marty Feldman's character, Marty Eggs, is a personal allusion to Feldman's vegetarianism, which made him very fond of eggs.
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** Paul Newman Creator/PaulNewman is in a racing wheelchair (at the time, he was car racing as a hobby).
**Marty Feldman's Creator/MartyFeldman's character, Marty Eggs, is a personal allusion to Feldman's vegetarianism, which made him very fond of eggs.
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** There's also Mel Brooks' wife, Anne Bancroft.
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** There's also Mel Brooks' Creator/MelBrooks' wife, Anne Bancroft.Creator/AnneBancroft.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: 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!"
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: 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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* TheDanza: All three main characters count: Creator/MelBrooks as Mel Funn, Marty Feldman as Marty Eggs, and Creator/DomDeLuise as Dom Bell.
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* TheDanza: All three main characters count: Creator/MelBrooks as Mel Funn, Marty Feldman Creator/MartyFeldman as Marty Eggs, and Creator/DomDeLuise as Dom Bell.
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* AllStarCast: And reportedly gotten on the cheep because nobody had to learn any lines!
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* ProductionPosse: Double-layered. Feldman and [=DeLuise=] are part of Brooks' posse, and they're playing members of Brooks' character's posse.
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* ActorAllusion: All over the place. ''All'' of the stars are represented by their hobbies. For instance, Paul Newman is in a racing wheelchair (at the time, he was car racing as a hobby).
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* ActorAllusion: All over the place. ''All'' of the stars are represented by their hobbies. For instance, hobbies.
** Paul Newman is in a racing wheelchair (at the time, he was car racing as ahobby).hobby).
** Marty Feldman's character, Marty Eggs, is a personal allusion to Feldman's vegetarianism, which made him very fond of eggs.
** Paul Newman is in a racing wheelchair (at the time, he was car racing as a
** Marty Feldman's character, Marty Eggs, is a personal allusion to Feldman's vegetarianism, which made him very fond of eggs.
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** Probably the best ActorAllusion is when the only spoken word of dialogue in the entire movie comes from a ''mime''.
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* DeletedScenes: Brooks' 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.
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* ActorAllusion: All over the place. ''All'' of the stars are represented by their hobbies. For instance, Paul Newman is in a racing wheelchair (at the time, he was car racing as a hobby).
** Probably the best ActorAllusion is when the only spoken word of dialogue in the entire movie comes from a ''mime''.
* TheDanza: All three main characters count: Creator/MelBrooks as Mel Funn, Marty Feldman as Marty Eggs, and Creator/DomDeLuise as Dom Bell.
** Probably the best ActorAllusion is when the only spoken word of dialogue in the entire movie comes from a ''mime''.
* TheDanza: All three main characters count: Creator/MelBrooks as Mel Funn, Marty Feldman as Marty Eggs, and Creator/DomDeLuise as Dom Bell.
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** There's also Mel Brooks' wife, Anne Bancroft.
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* RealLifeRelative: The pregnant woman they pick up at the beginning of the movie and drop off at the hospital is Dom Deluise'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.
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* RealLifeRelative: The pregnant woman they pick up at the beginning of the movie and drop off at the hospital is Dom Deluise's 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.previously.
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