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Madeline Kahn: Mel Brooks
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Actress Madeline Kahn died yesterday at 57 after a long battle with ovarian cancer. Kahn was most universally recognized for her sexy vamp roles in Mel Brooks' hit comedies Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. She was certainly admired and first discovered by Barbra Streisand fans in her hilarious starmaking portrayal of the rattled and plain-looking Eunice Burns, fiance of Dr. Howard Bannister and foil of Judy Maxwell (Streisand) in the 1972 comedy What's Up, Doc?.
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Madeline Kahn, the comic actress whom Mel Brooks described as "one of the most talented people that ever lived," died in Manhattan on Friday, December 3, of ovarian cancer. She was 57.
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Kahn made her film debut in the 1972's What's Up Doc? and in 1973 she earned her first Oscar nomination, in the supporting actress category for her role as Trixie Delight in Paper Moon. But it was in her collaborations with Mel Brooks that Kahn truly achieved her fame.
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In 1993, Kahn won a Tony for her role as Gorgeous Teitelbaum in The Sisters Rosensweig. She had been nominated three times previously, for appearances in: In the Boom Boom Room, in 1973; On the 20th Century, in 1978; and Born Yesterday, in 1989. She was twice nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actress: for 1973's Paper Moon, and for her role as saloon singer Lili Von Stupp in Mel Brooks' 1974 western farce, Blazing Saddles.
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