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Mel Brooks Recalls Trying to Help Gene Wilder with His Memory After Alzheimer's Diagnosis: 'It Was So Sad'

In the new documentary 'Remembering Gene Wilder,' the late Gene Wilder's longtime friend and collaborator Mel Brooks recalls how he felt after Wilder was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in the 2010s. "We could never talk too long after he got it. It was so sad, it made me cry a lot," Brooks recalled.

Wilder and Brooks, 97, first met in the 1960s and embarked on a creative collaboration that included films like The Producers(1967), Blazing Saddles(1974) and Young Frankenstein(1974), among other movies. The documentary features interviews with Brooks, Boyer, Harry Connick Jr., Carol Kane, Alan Alda and film critic Ben Mankiewicz, among others. The film is aided by narration from Wilder himself via excerpts from his 2006 memoir Kiss Me Like a Stranger and covers his upbringing in Wisconsin, career, collaborations with Brooks and romances with Boyer and Gilda Radner, his third wife.

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