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Torment Willy Wonka star hid behind those twinkling blue eyes: How Gene Wilder’s clownish characters concealed a life battered by tragedy
He may have made his fame and fortune in comedies, but that eternally sad look in his eyes told you Gene Wilder was hardly your average funny man. In fact the Hollywood star — who played a string of charmingly off-kilter characters in films such as The Producers, Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles, not to