Madeline Gail Kahn (nee Wolfson; September 29 1942 - December 3, 1999) was an American actress, comedian and singer. She was famous for her funny performances in films by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks and Mel Brooks, such as What's Up, Doc? (1972), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), and her Academy Award-nominated roles in Paper Moon (1973) and Blazing Saddles (1974).Kahn made her Broadway debut in Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968, and received Tony Award nominations for the production In the Boom Boom Room in 1974 as well as for the first production of the musical On the Twentieth Century in 1978. She was the lead character Madeline Wayne on the short-lived sitcom Oh Madeline (1983-84) and was awarded a Daytime Emmy Award in 1987 for an ABC Afterschool Special. She was awarded a third Tony Award nomination for the revival of the show Born Yesterday in 1989, after which she won the 1993 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the comedy The Sisters Rosensweig. Her other film roles included The Cheap Detective (1978), City Heat (1984), Clue (1985), and Nixon (1995).
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