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Mel Brooks Receives Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Mel Brooks
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Mel Brooks
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Writer/producer and actor Mel Brooks received the 2,406 star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame last Friday, according to published reports.

Brooks won an Academy Award for his 1968 film, The Producers and was nominated for his adapted screenplay (with Gene Wilder) for Young Frankenstein. Both films were adapted into Broadway musicals, with The Producers winning 12 Tonys, the most of any production in the award’s history. In addition, Brooks was Oscar nominated for the lyrics to the title song from Blazing Saddles, and he narrated The Critic, which won an Oscar for Cartoon Short Subject in 1963. His numerous films also include History of the World – Part I, Spaceballs, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.