Wilder came to fame through his collaborations with Mel Brooks  appearing in The Producers (1966) and Blazing Saddles (1974) and then co-writing Young Frankenstein (1974), before going solo as a writer-director of his own material. All of Gene Wilders films consciously draw on Hollywoods past  Arthur Conan Doyle in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother (1975) and The Worlds Greatest Lover (1977), which spoofed Rudolf Valentino, while The Woman in Red (1984) consciously took on Marilyn Monroe. Even Wilders best work with Mel Brooks was parodies of old films  the Universal Frankensteins in Young Frankenstein and the Western in Blazing Saddles.