A heartbroken Cloris Leachman says she’s not to play Frau Blucher in Mel Brooks’ musicalized “Young Frankenstein.” Cloris reports she was given that word in a letter from director Susan Stroman (“The ...

I am Frau Blucher. I am embodied by Melissa Mason Lacijan. 2.) What is your life like in Transylvania? Now that a Frankenstein is back in the laboratory, it is all fun und games, bodies und brains, ...

Last year, Mel Brooks, creator and producer of the Broadway musical comedy, told Leachman that, at 81, she was too old for the role of Frau Blucher (the character she originated in his 1974 movie).

Cloris Leachman confirmed this morning on ABC's The View that she did indeed get the offer to reprise her film role of Frau Blucher for the Broadway production of Young Frankenstein. The news of Mel ...

As in the movie, every time we hear the name Frau Blucher the whinny of horses follows — right on cue. When Igor drops the many Mel Brooks’ one-liners and double entendres there is the perfect pause ...

This post by Jill Schlesinger originally appeared on CBS' MoneyWatch.com. For years, there was an urban myth that the reason that the horses neighed was that "Blucher" meant "glue" in either German or ...