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MARA DRESNER
Special to the Jewish News

I

ll rom Willy Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory to Young
Frankenstein and Stir Crazy,
Gene Wilder has starred in
some of America's best-loved movies.
Born Jerry Silberman in
Milwaukee, the son of an immigrant
from Russia who prospered as the
manufacturer of miniature wine and
whiskey bottles, he studied with
Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen in
New York and — after earning a liv-
ing as a fencing instructor, chauffeur
and toy salesman — made his off-
Broadway debut in 1961. He joined
the renowned Actors Studio and soon
began playing important parts on
Broadway.
Wilder, 64, made his big-screen
debut as the frightened young under-
taker abducted for a joy ride in 1967's
Bonnie and Clyde. He was nominated
for an Academy Award for his second
film role, the neurotic Leo Bloom, in
The Producers and received another
Oscar nomination for co-screenwriting
Young Frankenstein.
He debuted as a director in 1975,
directing himself from his own script
in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'
Smarter Brother.
The Lady in Question, the second
movie in the Cash Carter mystery
series co-written by Wilder and Gilbert
Pearlman for A&E cable network, will
premiere this Sunday.
Wilder plays Larry "Cash" Carter, a
Jewish director who left Broadway for
idyllic Stamford, Conn., following his
wife's murder. Seven years later, he
runs a community theater and uses his
understanding of human motivation
— and the ability to discern if some-
one is telling the truth — in some
amateur sleuthing.
Married to native Detroiter
Gilda Radner from 1984 until her
death from ovarian cancer in 1989,
Wilder, who is remarried, lives in
Stamford.
As Cash Carter in The Lady in
Question, he joins forces with Mimi

Mara Dresner is a staff writer for
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(Cherry Jones), his new fiancee, and
his police detective pal, Tony Rossini
(Mike Starr), to help solve the puz-
zling poisoning of well-known
humanitarian Emma Sachs, played by
Claire Bloom. Sachs has been helping
to get Jews out of Nazi Germany.
Murder in a Small Town, the first
film in the mystery series, premiered
in January
1999 and

was the second highest-rated movie
ever on A&E.
Wilder recently spoke about his career
in an interview with the Jewish News.

JN: How did the concept for Cash
Carter come about?
GW: A&E asked if I'd be interested
in creating a character in a mystery.
They said, "It doesn't have to be a
detective. Anything you'd like to

Gene Wilder plays Broadway
director-turned-sleuth Cash Carter
in A&Es "The Lady in Question":
`All I had for an idea was this
Gestapo agent in Germany
during Kristallnacht changing out
of his uniform and putting on an
American business suit. He changes
his music from Schubert to "Hello
Beautifid," and he gets on an
airplane and speaks pe ect English.
... Everything else flowedfrom that."