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Madeline Kahn
American actress
Also known as: Madeline Gail Wolfson
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“Blazing Saddles”
- In Mel Brooks: Films of the 1970s
Korman, Slim Pickens, and Madeline Kahn, who earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress for her parody of Marlene Dietrich’s saloon singer in the classic western Destry Rides Again (1939). The film reaped a fortune at the box office and earned Brooks another Academy Award nomination, this…
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“Paper Moon”
- In Peter Bogdanovich: Films
…she was selected over—her costar Madeleine Kahn—nearly stole the movie as the exotic dancer Trixie Delight.
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