Movie Releases - 15 December 1974

Young Frankenstein (1974)

Stars: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman

Director: Mel Brooks

Writers: Gene Wilder (screen story and screenplay), Mel Brooks (screen story and screenplay)

Genre: Comedy

Gruskoff/Venture Films, Crossbow Productions, Jouer Limited

Time: 106 min

Rating: PG

Plot

A young neurosurgeon (Gene Wilder) inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback called Igor, a pretty lab assistant named Inga and the old housekeeper, frau Blucher -iiiiihhh!-. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather is only crap, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind...

In the News – 10 January 1974

   Doctors have tested tissue from Bing Crosby’s afflicted lung and found no indication of cancer.

   The 69-year-old singer entered in Burlingame, Calif., Peninsula Hospital New Year’s Eve for what was then diagnosed as pleurisy.

   Crosby’s family doctor Dr. Stanley Hantling, says a team of chest and lung specialists has been called in to help determine how best to treat Crosby’s condition.

The Vancouver Sun

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   Actor Richard Harris is engaged to Anne Turkel, the daughter of a Scarsdale, N.Y., clothing manufacturer.

   Harris met Miss Turkel last fall when they appeared together in a movie.  The couple will be married in New York in April.

The Vancouver Sun

In the News – 7 January 1974

   Bing Crosby, in hospital in Burlingame, Calif., with pleurisy, was reported in good spirits as he watched a telecast of the annual Pro-Am golf tourney that he normally hosts at Pebble Beach.

   Crosby’s condition remained satisfactory, the nursing supervisor at Peninsula Hospital said.

The Vancouver Sun

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   Sam Goldwyn, 91, last of the pioneer Hollywood film tycoons, is expected to be released soon after recuperating for the past two weeks at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif.

   Doctors refused to give the nature of the Goldwyn’s ailment, but the producer has been in fragile health since suffering a stroke in 1968.

   The producer, who gave his name to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, produced some of the screen’s most memorable films from the silent screen era to the 1960s, making household names of dozens of stars.

The Vancouver Sun

In the News - 4 January 1974

   Comedian Jack Benny claims his donation of show business memorabilia to the University of California at Los Angeles entitled him to a $156,000 federal tax deduction, but the Internal Revenue Service disagrees.

   Instead, the tax men assert, Benny and his wife owe $109,081 in back taxes for 1967 and 1968.

   Benny’s lawyer said the claimed deduction for the charitable contribution is similar to the one President Richard Nixon took for donating his vice-presidential papers to the national Archives, Nixon’s claim was accepted.

The Vancouver Sun