Actor Gene Wilder, star of the original "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" and beloved Mel Brooks films "Blazing Saddles" and "Young Frankenstein," was on his fourth marriage at the time of his death in 2016 from complications of Alzheimer's disease but his widow, Karen Boyer, is not the name he's most often associated with.
For many, the next name to come to mind when thinking of Wilder's is Gilda Radner, a member of "Saturday Night Live's" original ensemble who Wilder met and fell in love with while co-staring in Sidney Poitier's "Hanky Panky" in 1981, marrying a few years later and remaining together until her death from ovarian cancer in 1989. And although their relationship remains at the forefront of fans' memory the new documentary, "Remembering Gene Wilder," makes it clear that she was not the love of his life and that Wilder was unhappy in their relationship for years. A fact that's difficult to come to terms with.
