Madeline Kahn

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Madeline Kahn

American actress

Also known as: Madeline Gail Wolfson

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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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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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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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…she was selected over—her costar Madeleine Kahn—nearly stole the movie as the exotic dancer Trixie Delight.
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