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Leachman has appeared in three Mel Brooks films.

She played Frau Blücher in Young Frankenstein ( 1974 ), in which the mere mention of her character's name elicits the loud neighing of horses ( an homage to a cinematic villain stereotype ).

She also appeared in High Anxiety ( 1977 ) as the demented villainess, psychiatric nurse Charlotte Diesel, and as Madame Defarge in the segment of History of the World: Part I ( 1981 ) which parodied Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities.