How Jerome Silberman Became Gene Wilder by Patrick Pacheco

Years before Gene Wilder became a beloved comic actor through such films as "The Producers," "Blazing Saddles," "Young Frankenstein" and "Stir Crazy," he was an eager student and devotee of the stage. Known largely as a clown who could indelibly combine a high-pitched agita with a sweet melancholy in his movies, Wilder always considered himself an actor first, rather than a comedian " one who had nurtured his art at …

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