THE MONSTER (BOYLE) AND
Dr. Frankenstein’s fiancée,
Elizabeth (Madeline Kahn), enjoy
a postcoital smoke (opposite).
“I gave everybody in the crew
a white handkerchief,” Brooks
recently recalled. “I said, ‘Whenyou feel like laughing, put this in
your mouth.’ Every once in a while,
I’d turn around and see a sea of
white handkerchiefs, and I said,
‘I got a hit.’ ” Above: In perhaps
the film’s most memorable scene,
Dr. Frankenstein and his creationperform Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’
on the Ritz.” “His acting, his
loungewear, his perfect
mustache, and his beautiful
shiny hair all evoked the style
of a 1930s matinee idol,” Brooks
said of Wilder.83MA
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