LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Madeline Kahn: Role
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Late in her career, Kahn returned to the stage, first in Judy Holliday's role in a 1989 revival of Born Yesterday, then as Dr. Gorgeous in Wendy Wasserstein's 1993 play The Sisters Rosensweig, a role that gained her a Tony Award. She played the corrupt mayoress (Angela Lansbury's role) in a concert performance of Anyone Can Whistle that was released on CD. She ... continued to appear in movies, including the holiday farce Mixed Nuts and a cameo in the 1978 "The Muppet Movie".
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Latterly Ms Kahn had been appearing on the small screen on the Cosby Show in the role of Pauline. Though she had been battling ovarian cancer for over a year she didn't announce the fact to the public until a month before her death at the age of 57. It making the statement, that she was undergoing "aggressive treatment" for the disease, she declared that "It is my hope that I might raise awareness of this awful disease and hasten the day that an effective test can be discovered to give women a fighting chance to catch this cancer in its earliest stage"
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Kahn was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in early 1999. She underwent treatment and continued to work, even continuing her role on Cosby. However, the disease progressed rapidly, and on December 3, 1999, Kahn died at the age of 57.
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