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Madeline Kahn: Hofstra University
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Hofstra graduate Madeline Kahn was trained for an operatic career, but found her most gainful employment in musical comedy and revue work. While reducing audiences to tears of laughter as a member of New York's Upstairs at the Downstairs satirical troupe, Kahn made her first appearance in the short-subject Bergman lampoon The Dove (1968).
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In 1948, Kahn was sent to a progressive boarding school in Pennsylvania and stayed there until 1952. During that time, her mother pursued her acting dream. Kahn soon began acting herself and performed in a number of school productions. In 1960, she graduated from Martin Van Buren High School in Queens, where she earned a drama scholarship to Hofstra University. At Hofstra, she studied drama, music, and speech therapy. After changing her major a number of times, Kahn graduated from Hofstra in 1964 with a degree in speech therapy.
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From a young age, Kahn showed great promise as an actor, earning a drama scholarship to Hofstra College. At Hofstra, she continued to hone her craft, although one teacher cautioned her that her baby-talk way of speaking would handicap her career. Far from being a hindrance, Kahn would use this "handicap" to create a series of unique and memorable characters. She graduated from Hofstra in 1964 with a degree in speech therapy.
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Born in Boston, Ms. Kahn grew up there and in New York, the child of divorced middle-class parents. She took an early interest in acting and performed while a student at Hofstra University on Long Island, but she was cautioned by one of her teachers that her baby-talk way of speaking -- which has been described as if ``filtered through a ceramic nose'' -- would be a handicap.
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