"I was inconsolable for a couple of weeks," Mel Brooks recalls of Gene Wilder's death at 83 in 2016

We interrupt our scheduled Woman Crush Wednesday post to dedicate today to the incomparable Gene Wilder. We here at Frock Flicks were extremely saddened to hear of Wilder’s passing on Monday …

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Gene Wilder dances with an unidentified Oompa Loompa, on the set of the movie 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'.

Gene Wilder and Steven Warner at an event for The Little Prince (1974)

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Read a list of comedy icon Gene Wilder's favorite books, from F. Scott Fitzgerald and Arthur Miller to Ernest Hemingway and Jean Renoir.

“His style was a little bit different; he wasn’t a Borscht belt comedian, but he certainly learned from them,” director Ron Frank told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Gene Wilder, whose many credits include Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Mel BRooks' Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles, has died.

Comedians and spouses Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner attending the premiere of the new Woody Allen film 'Hannah and her Sisters', at the UA Coronet Theater in Los Angeles, January 16th 1986.

Gene Wilder was best known for his portrayal of Willy Wonka and his collaboration with Richard Pryor, he also directed films and turned to writing

“Gene is gone and there will never be anyone like him again.”

Funny man, frizzy-haired Gene Wilder, has died from complications from Alzheimer’s Disease at the age of 83 at this home in Stamford, Ct. Whether showing his comedic edge in Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles, or as Leo Bloom (for which he won an Oscar nomination, 1968) in The Producers or in Young Frankenstein, he […]

Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner