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Dec 4, 1999 · Madeline Kahn, an Oscar-nominated actress and comedian best known for her work in Blazing Saddles, What's Up Doc? and Paper Moon, died Friday after a battle with ovarian cancer. She was 57.
Madeline Gail Kahn (née Wolfson; September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999) was an American actress, comedian, and singer. She is known for comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks, including What's Up, Doc?
Dec 5, 1999 · Madeline Kahn, the comic actress whom Mel Brooks described as "one of the most talented people that ever lived," died in Manhattan on Friday, December 3, of ovarian cancer. She was 57. Winner of both the Tony and People's Choice awards, Kahn was noted for her lusty portrayals of off-center characters.
May 4, 2015 · Funny lady: Madeline Kahn biography looks beyond the laughs. “Madeline Kahn: Being the Music, A Life” (University Press of Mississippi), by William V. Madison. She was delightful in “Paper Moon” and “Blazing Saddles,” then uproarious as the monster’s tuneful bride in “Young Frankenstein.”.
Madeline Kahn, a 1993 Tony Award winner for playing a character named Dr. Gorgeous in The Sisters Rosensweig, and best-known for playing gorgeously baroque vamps in the Mel Brooks spoofs,...
Madeline Kahn. Actress: Paper Moon. Madeline Kahn was born Madeline Gail Wolfson of Russian Jewish descent on September 29, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Freda Goldberg (later known as Paula Kahn), who was still in her teens, and Bernard B. Wolfson, a garment manufacturer.
May 12, 2015 · The best comic performers are the ones who never seem to work too hard to get a laugh, the ones who are deadly serious but ever-so-slightly cockeyed or bent, and Madeline Kahn was a delightful example of this throughout her sadly circumscribed and shortened life and career.
