Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about MADELINE KAHN!
made only at TCM!
made only at TCM!
made only at TCM!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: her other film appearances included The Cheap Detective (1978), City Heat (1984), Clue (1985), and Nixon (1995). Kahn made her Broadway debut in Leonard Sillman’s New Faces of 1968 . her parents divorced when Kahn was two, and she moved with her mother to new york city . in 1953, Freda married Hiller, who later adopted Madeline; Freda eventually changed her own name to Paula in 1960, Kahn graduated from Martin Van Buren high school in Queens . she then earned a drama scholarship to Hofstra University on Long Island . at Hofstra, she studied drama, music, and speech therapy kahn sang musical comedy numbers during shows . she later studied singing in new york with Beverley Peck Johnson . the first thing i did was Candide for Leonard Bernstein’s 50th birthday at Philharmonic Hall . that’s what it was called at the time . if i were to earn more money in the next year madeline kahn made her stage debut as a chorus girl in a revival of Kiss Me, Kate . she then led her to join Actors’ Equity . the singer has done Musetta in La Boh she made her Broadway debut in 1969 with Leonard Sillman’s New Faces of 1968 . in 1969, she appeared Off-Broadway in the musical Promenade . she left (or, reportedly, was her film career continued with Paper Moon (1973), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . Kahn was cast in the role of Agnes Gooch in the 1974 film Mame, in 1975, Kahn again teamed with Bogdanovich to co-star with Burt Reynolds and Cybill Shepherd in the musical At Long Last Love. the film was a critical and financial disaster . in 1978, Kahn’s comic screen persona reached another peak with Neil Simon’s The Cheap Detective . after her success in Brooks’ films, she played in a number of less successful films in the 1980s in 1983, she starred in her own short-lived television sitcom, Oh Madeline . in 1986, she star in ABC Comedy Factory’s pilot episode of Chameleon . Kahn played the corrupt mayor in a benefit concert performance of Anyone Can Whistle in 1995 . she appeared in Nixon as Martha Beall Mitchell (1995) Madeline Kahn died on December 3, 1999, at age 57 . she worked on the first two episodes of Little Bill, voicing Mrs. Shapiro . the disease spread rapidly, and she died on . the bench is located near the reservoir on W 87th St. the second episode (“Just a Baby” / “the Camp Out”) was the final episode for which she voiced Mrs. Shapiro . Kathy Naji