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Madeline Kahn
Actor
Born September 29, 1942 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA
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. She began her acting career in high school and went on to university where she trained as an opera singer and starred in several campus productions, ultimately earning an honorary doctorate from Boston Conservatory. Kahn's best-known work came in the Mel Brooks films, but she was a standout in Paper Moon (1973) with Ryan O'Neal, which was followed the next year by Mel Brooks's outrageous Blazing Saddles (1974) as Lili Von Shtupp, a cabaret singer who was obviously based on Marlene Dietrich's performance in Destry Rides Again (1939). Kahn was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in both movies. In 1998, she lent her voice to the character of "Gypsy" in A Bug's Life (1998). On December 3, 1999, Madeline Kahn died of ovarian cancer in New York City, after a yearlong or so battle, during part of which time she was a cast member of Cosby (1996), aged 57.
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Top titles
Arrow
Arrow
Clue
Paper Moon
What's Up, Doc?
Road To Avonlea-Season 1
Sesame Street: Big Bird's Wish
Blazing Saddles
Bug's Life
Nixon
An American Tail
History of the World: Part I
High Anxiety
The Cheap Detective
Little Bill Season 1
Arrow
Arrow
Filmography
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Arrow
Arrow
1999
Little Bill Season 1
1998
Bug's Life
1995
Nixon
1994
Mixed Nuts
1990
Betsy's Wedding
Road To Avonlea-Season 1
1986
An American Tail
My Little Pony The Movie
1985
Clue
1984
City Heat
1983
Yellowbeard
1982
Slapstick Of Another Kind
1981
History of the World: Part I
1980
Wholly Moses
First Family
Simon (1980)
1979
Muppet Muppet Land (A Kermit in 'La La Land' Mashup)
1978
The Cheap Detective
1977
High Anxiety
1976
Won Ton Ton the Dog that Saved Hollywood
1974
Blazing Saddles
1973
From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Paper Moon
1972
What's Up, Doc?
1969
Sesame Street: Big Bird's Wish
Arrow
Arrow
Connections
Mel Brooks
Peter Bogdanovich
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