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Carol Kane was made up to resemble silent film star Zasu Pitts. Kane also appeared in another movie about the silent era released in the same year. That movie was Ken Russell's Valentino (1977). Both films featured Rudolph Valentino in their stories.
Lupe Ontiveros' film debut. Debra De Liso' film debut.
The film was freely adapted from Federico Fellini's "The White Sheik" (The White Sheik (1952)). Halliwell's noted that "The film carries a credit to Federico Fellini 'for encouragement at the right time'".
Several cast and crew had appeared in Mel Brooks's Silent Movie (1976), another spoof of silent cinema, released the year before. They included cast members Dom DeLuise, Carol Arthur, Jack Riley, Fritz Feld, Composer John Morris, Make-up man William Tuttle and Production Manager Frank Baur. Dom DeLuise was highly-billed in a major role in both movies.
Gene Wilder conceived the idea for this movie during late 1975 when Wilder said to his friend, Production Designer Terence Marsh, that he would like to play Rudolph Valentino's double, with Valentino playing a silent secondary supporting role to his stand-in leading character. Marsh loved the concept, and Wilder proceeded to develop the picture.
"Rudy Valentine: Are you trying to give me fart hailure?"
"Projectionist: I'm in the union."
