In this 1968 film publicity image originally released by Embassy Pictures, from left, Kenneth Mars, Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel and Lee Meredith, are shown in a scene from the movie "The Producers." Mars, a Mel Brooks collaborator who played a Hitler-worshipping playwright in "The Producers" and an earnest police inspector with a malfunctioning artificial arm in "Young Frankenstein," died Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011, of pancreatic cancer at his home in Grenada Hills, Calif. He was 75. (AP Photo/Embassy Pictures)