Madeline Gail Kahn née Wolfson September 29 1942 December 3 1999 was an American actress comedian and singer known for comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks including Whats Up Doc 1972 Young Frankenstein 1974 High Anxiety 1977 History of the World Part I 1981 and her Academy Awardnominated roles in Paper Moon 1973 and Blazing Saddles 1974 Kahn made her Broadway debut in Leonard Sillmans New Faces of 1968 and received Tony Award nominations for the play In the Boom Boom Room in 1974 and for the original production of the musical On the Twentieth Century in 1978 She starred as Madeline Wayne on the shortlived sitcom Oh Madeline 198384 and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1987 for an ABC Afterschool Special She 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 Her other film appearances included The Cheap Detective 1978 City Heat 1984 Clue 1985 and Nixon 1995 Description above from the Wikipedia article Madeline Kahn licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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