The Uninvited Extra
Sheriff Bart and the Waco Kid are followed through the Warner Brothers film’s backlot in a famous sequence that serves as the movie’s epilogue. Everyone turns right, save for one person, as soon as they race through the gates, shattering the illusion. That man was a chance pedestrian who stumbled onto the set and misunderstood the directions to depart. Brooks asked him to approve the appearance before allowing him to stay.
The Uninvited Extra
You’re Fired!
Before Blazing Saddles’ filming started, Madeline Kahn had already been cast in the Mame movie. The Broadway musical Mame, which starred Lucille Ball and Bea Arthur, was being adapted. Madeline was let go from Mame the day before she started working on Blazing Saddles. Ball asserted that Kahn intended to perform poorly in order to get fired, freeing her up to concentrate on her role as Lili von Shtupp.
You’re Fired!
