Editing Mel Brooks (section)

===Marriages and family===
Brooks met Florence Baum,<ref name="wheatleigh"><!-- Florence Baum Brooks Dunay Weisgal -->
* {{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/13/archives/fantasy-mansion-becomes-an-inn.html |title = Fantasy Mansion Becomes an Inn |quote=...David Weisgal, the 44‐year‐old son of a wealthy philanthropist—a $235,000 fantasy that he could afford. Mr. Weisgal purchased the 33‐room mansion, situated on 21 acres of Berkshire pine forest and with Florence Brooks‐Dunay, his fiancée... |newspaper = [[The New York Times]] |date = February 13, 1977}}
* {{Cite news |last1=Huberdeau |first1=Jennifer |title=The Cottager: Wheatleigh, Where the Berkshires ends and Italian country begins |url=https://www.berkshireeagle.com/arts_and_culture/the-cottager-wheatleigh-where-the-berkshires-ends-and-italian-country-begins/article_faee178a-d186-5849-90f8-3e6023de83e6.html |access-date=September 28, 2022 |work=[[The Berkshire Eagle]] |date=September 22, 2016 |language=en |quote=In 1976, Wheatleigh was sold to David Weisgal and his fiancee, Florence Brooks-Dunay, a professional dancer, for $235,000. They ran Wheatleigh as a country inn until 1982, when current owners Linfield and Susan Simon fell in love with the property and purchased it}}
</ref> a dancer in ''[[Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)|Gentlemen Prefer Blondes]]'', on Broadway.<ref name="actorsequity/News/2011-01">
* {{Cite journal |last1=Baum Brooks Dunay Weisgal |first1=Florence |title=ELEGANT, NEVER TACKY |journal=Equity News |date=January–February 2011 |volume=96 |issue=1 |page=8 |url=https://www.actorsequity.org/news/EquityNews/Archives2010-2016/en_01_2011.pdf |access-date=September 28, 2022 |publisher=[[Actors' Equity Association]]}}
* {{Cite news |title=CBS SUNDAY MORNING Features Segment on Broadway Gypsy Robe Today, 6/10 |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/CBS-SUNDAY-MORNING-to-Feature-Segment-on-Broadway-Gypsy-Robe-610-20120609 |access-date=September 28, 2022 |work=[[BroadwayWorld]] |date=June 10, 2012 |language=en}}
* {{Cite news |last1=Fierberg |first1=Ruthie |title=The History of Broadway's Legacy Robe Tradition |url=https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/history-broadways-gypsy-robe-20249/ |access-date=September 29, 2022 |work=[[Backstage (magazine)|Backstage]] |date=August 29, 2019}}
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* {{Cite web |title=Florence Baum |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/florence-baum-98609 |website=[[Internet Broadway Database]] |access-date=September 28, 2022}}
* {{Cite web |title=Florence Baum |url=https://www.playbill.com/person/florence-baum-vault-0000081573 |website=[[Playbill]] |access-date=September 28, 2022}}
* {{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/video/the-gypsy-project-florence-brooks-dunay-baum|title=The Gypsy Project: Florence Brooks-Dunay (Baum)|website=Playbill.com|access-date=December 20, 2021}}
</ref> They were married from 1953 until their divorce in 1962. They had three children.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://marriage.about.com/od/entertainmen1/p/bancroftbrooks.htm|title=Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks Marriage|publisher=about.com|access-date=May 16, 2013|archive-date=May 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511191258/http://marriage.about.com/od/entertainmen1/p/bancroftbrooks.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> After earning a salary of $5,000 a week on ''[[Your Show of Shows]]'' and ''[[Caesar's Hour]]'',<ref>{{cite web |title=About |url=https://caesarswriters.com/about/ |website=Caesar's Writers |access-date=September 29, 2022}}</ref> his salary dropped to $85 a week as a freelance writer. For five years he had few [[Temporary work|gig]]s, and was living in [[Greenwich Village]] on Perry Street in a fourth-floor walk-up.<ref name="vanityfair/making-producers">{{cite news |last1=Kashner |first1=Sam |title=The Making of The Producers |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2004/01/making-the-producers |access-date=September 29, 2022 |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |date=January 6, 2004}}</ref> In 1960, to escape his situation, Brooks moved in with a friend, in Los Angeles.<ref name="grunge/363048">{{cite web |last1=Collins |first1=Elizabeth |title=The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Mel Brooks |url=https://www.grunge.com/363048/the-tragic-real-life-story-of-mel-brooks/ |website=Grunge.com |access-date=September 29, 2022 |date=March 23, 2021}}</ref> In 1961, after his return to New York, he found that Baum had begun suing him for legal separation. ''Marriage Is a Dirty Rotten Fraud''<ref name="archives.nypl/22177#c1030225">{{cite web |title=Brooks, Mel. Typescript screenplay, 'Marriage is a Dirty Rotten Fraud' undated 126 |url=https://archives.nypl.org/brg/22177#c1030225 |website=[[Terry Southern]] papers |publisher=[[New York Public Library]] |access-date=September 29, 2022}}</ref> was an autobiographical script based on his marriage.<ref name="lareviewofbooks-McGilligan-brooks"/><ref name="cnn/mel-brooks-qa"/> By 1966, Brooks was "living in a fairly old but comfortable New York town house".<ref name="1966/brooks-playboy"/>

Brooks married actress [[Anne Bancroft]] in 1964, and they remained together for 41 years until her death in 2005.<ref name=people>Silverman, Stephen M. [http://people.com/celebrity/mel-brooks-and-anne-bancroft-shared-love-and-laughs/ "Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft Shared Love and Laughs"] ''People'', May 19, 2013</ref> They met at a rehearsal for the ''[[Perry Como]] Variety Show'' in 1961, and were married three years later on August 5, 1964, at the [[Manhattan Marriage Bureau]].<ref name=people/><ref name=country>Carter, Maria. [http://www.countryliving.com/life/entertainment/a44292/anne-bancroft-and-mel-brooks/ "How Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks Kept the Spark Alive for 41 Years"] ''Country Living'', August 9, 2017</ref> Their son, [[Max Brooks]], was born in 1972.<ref name=people/><ref name=country/> In 2010, Brooks credited Bancroft as "the guiding force" behind his involvement in developing ''The Producers'' and ''[[Young Frankenstein (musical)|Young Frankenstein]]'' for the musical theater, saying of an early meeting with her: "From that day, until her death&nbsp;... we were glued together."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/03/mel-brooks-remembers-love_n_448180.html|title=Mel Brooks Remembers Love Anne Bancroft: 'We Were Glued Together' |first=John|last=Carucci|date=February 3, 2010 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |work=[[HuffPost]] |access-date=September 5, 2013}}</ref> He has remained single since she died, stating in 2023 that "Once you are married to Anne Bancroft, others don't seem to be appealing".<ref>{{cite news|first=Maureen|last=Dowd|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/11/style/mel-brooks-comedian.html|title=Mel Brooks Isn't Done Punching Up the History of the World|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 11, 2023|access-date=March 12, 2023}}</ref>

According to actor [[David DeLuise]] on ''Wizards of Waverly Pod'', Brooks is his godfather; DeLuise's father, [[Dom DeLuise]], was a frequent co-star of Brooks in his earlier career.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/@WizardsPod | title=Wizards of Waverly Pod – YouTube | website=[[YouTube]] }}</ref>