Madeline Kahn starred as Madeline Wayne on the short-lived sitcom Oh Madeline and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1987 for an ABC Afterschool Special.
35 Facts About Madeline Kahn
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Madeline Kahn received a third Tony Award nomination for the revival of the play Born Yesterday in 1989, before winning the 1993 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the comedy The Sisters Rosensweig.
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Madeline Kahn's parents divorced when Kahn was two, and she moved with her mother to New York City.
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Madeline Kahn had two half-siblings: Jeffrey and Robyn.
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In 1948, Madeline Kahn was sent to the progressive Manumit School, a boarding school in Bristol, Pennsylvania.
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Madeline Kahn soon began acting herself, and performed in a number of school productions.
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Madeline Kahn graduated from Hofstra in 1964 with a degree in speech therapy.
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Madeline Kahn was a member of a local sorority on campus, Delta Chi Delta.
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Madeline Kahn later studied singing in New York City with Beverley Peck Johnson.
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Madeline Kahn meant that one very popular aria 'un Bel Di'.
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Madeline Kahn began auditioning for professional acting roles shortly after her graduation from Hofstra; on the side, she briefly taught public school.
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Just before adopting the professional name Madeline Kahn, she made her stage debut as a chorus girl in a revival of Kiss Me, Kate, which led her to join Actors' Equity.
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In 1968, Madeline Kahn performed her first professional lead in a special concert performance of the operetta Candide in honor of Leonard Bernstein's 50th birthday.
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Madeline Kahn made her Broadway debut in 1968 with Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968 and appeared Off-Broadway in the musical Promenade.
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Madeline Kahn appeared in two Broadway musicals in the 1970s: a featured role in Richard Rodgers' 1970 Noah's Ark-themed show Two by Two and a leading lady turn as Lily Garland in 1978's On the Twentieth Century.
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Madeline Kahn left the latter show early in its run, yielding the role to understudy Judy Kaye.
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Madeline Kahn starred in a 1977 Town Hall semi-staged concert version of Madeline Kahn Loves Me.
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Madeline Kahn was cast in the role of Agnes Gooch in the 1974 film Mame, but star Lucille Ball fired Madeline Kahn due to artistic differences.
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In 1975, Madeline Kahn again teamed with Bogdanovich to co-star with Burt Reynolds and Cybill Shepherd in the musical At Long Last Love.
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The film was a critical and financial disaster, but Madeline Kahn largely escaped blame for the failure.
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Madeline Kahn's roles were primarily comedic rather than dramatic, although the 1970s found her originating roles in two plays that had elements of both: 1973's In the Boom Boom Room on Broadway and 1977's Marco Polo Sings a Solo Off-Broadway.
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Madeline Kahn played Mrs White in 1985's Clue, First Lady Constance Link in the 1980 spoof First Family, a twin from outer space in the Jerry Lewis sci-fi comedy Slapstick of Another Kind, the love interest of Burt Reynolds in the crime comedy City Heat, and Draggle in the animated film My Little Pony: The Movie.
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Madeline Kahn voiced the character Gussie Mausheimer in the animated film An American Tail.
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In 1983, Kahn starred in her own short-lived TV sitcom Oh Madeline, which ended after one season due to poor ratings.
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In 1987, Madeline Kahn won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance in the ABC Afterschool Special Wanted: The Perfect Guy.
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Madeline Kahn returned to the stage as Billie Dawn in the 1989 Broadway revival of Born Yesterday, and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
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Madeline Kahn played the mother of Molly Ringwald's character in the 1990 film Betsy's Wedding, and shortly after she recorded a voice for the unreleased animated movie The Magic 7.
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Madeline Kahn played the corrupt mayor in a benefit concert performance of Anyone Can Whistle in 1995.
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Madeline Kahn appeared in Nixon as Martha Beall Mitchell.
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On stage, Madeline Kahn played Dr Gorgeous in Wendy Wasserstein's 1993 play The Sisters Rosensweig, a role for which she earned a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
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Madeline Kahn was a member of the cast of Cosby as Pauline, the eccentric friend and neighbor.
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Madeline Kahn participated in a workshop reading of Dear World at the Roundabout Theatre Company in June 1998, reading the part of Gabrielle.
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Madeline Kahn voiced Gypsy the moth in A Bug's Life.
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Madeline Kahn received good reviews for her Chekhovian turn in the 1999 independent movie Judy Berlin, her final film.
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Madeline Kahn underwent treatment, continued to work on Cosby, and married John Hansbury in Summer 1999.