Mel Brooks: American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor

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Encyclopædia Britannica, inc.
Erickson, Harold L.Barson, Michael

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2019-03-27

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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mel-Brooks

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A biographical article about the early life, career and films of Mel Brooks. It describes his launch as an entertainer in the Borscht Belt, predominantly Jewish resorts in the Catskill Mountains. According to the article, his feeling "of being an outsider as a Jew in mainstream American society..." Click on the link to read the article.

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Brooks, Mel, Kaminsky, Melvin, Directors, Producers, Screenwriters, Actors, Theater, Movies and Television, United States, Biography, Entertainers

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Theater, Movies and Television
Entertainers