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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 10:03 PM
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Ah, Madeline Kahn! I love her!
Watching High Anxiety--I just crack up whenever she's on the screen, even when she doesn't say anything!

I miss her!
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patdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 10:05 PM
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1. Did Madeline die??? I do not recall reading about it???
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snoochie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 10:07 PM
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4. Yes, sadly.
What was it? Two years ago? Last year?

She'll be remembered fondly.

I'll always remember her best for her roles in Young Frankenstein and especially Blazing Saddles. :)
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 10:08 PM
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5. She died in December of 1999
Very, very sad.
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snoochie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 10:14 PM
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8. Lili Von Shtupp
:)
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-08-03 12:22 AM
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22. "Oh, sweet mystery of life, at last I've found you."
What a woman. I miss her too.
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-08-03 10:13 AM
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28. It was actually the main reason Cosby went off the air...
She made the show.
Duckie
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Philostopher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 10:52 PM
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15. She died of ovarian cancer, if I'm not mistaken.
Poor Gene Wilder -- he and Madeline Kahn had been friends since Young Frankenstein. He lost both a wife and a good friend to it.
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Ohio Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 10:05 PM
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2. It's twue. It's twue.
No doubt about it.
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Catch22Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 10:06 PM
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3. One of her best roles
Was on Blazing Saddles
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Ohio Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 10:08 PM
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6. I loved Clue, too.
But I agree about Blazing Saddles.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 10:13 PM
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7. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Blazing...
Saddles...don't know who won that year--but she was robbed!
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mndemocrat_29 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-08-03 11:56 AM
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31. Ingrid Bergman won for Murder on the Orient Express
n/t
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-08-03 11:59 AM
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33. Ah, Ingrid already had two! Why give her a third???
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Catch22Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 10:16 PM
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9. Holy flippin' cripes
I totally forgot about that movie. Brilliant comedy that was!
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bambo53 Donating Member (558 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 10:36 PM
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11. Unforgetable
Everytime I hear news about us training Iraqi security forces, I think about the Mexican banditos on Blazing Saddles saying "Badges? Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!"
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Kamika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-08-03 07:14 AM
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24. Theres a cut line in that scene
The sheriff goes "Uhh Miss thats my elbow"
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 10:36 PM
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10. I loved her as Eunice...
Edited on Fri Nov-07-03 10:37 PM by liberalmuse
in 'What's Up Doc?' I saw that movie one night when I was babysitting (must've been about 13) and thought it was the funniest movie I'd ever seen in my life. Oh well. Madeline Kahn was great, and so was the snooty guy with the accent--I don't know his name, but he played a messed up Nazi in 'The Producers'.
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Lindsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 10:49 PM
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12. What's up doc
was hilarious - wasn't it! I haven't thought about that movie in a long time.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 11:04 PM
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18. What's Up Doc was her movie debut!
And she was wonderful!
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stimbox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 10:51 PM
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14. You're upside down!
I love What's up Doc.
I saw that at the drive-in with my folks when I was a wee one.
Made a serious impression on me. The funniest movie I have ever seen. I notice new things everytime I watch it. Probably influenced my desire to live in San Francisco.
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stimbox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 11:11 PM
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19. Kenneth Mars .... Hugh Simon
http://www.ravecentral.com/whatsupdoc.html

Here's the cast list.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-08-03 10:39 AM
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29. That was Kenneth Mars.
n/t
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ronzo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 10:50 PM
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13. Empress Nympho...
"Do I have any openings that this man might fit?" :)
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kyrasdad Donating Member (551 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 10:54 PM
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16. Madeline Kahn
Was one of the funniest women ever...
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 10:59 PM
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17. I miss her too
a funny and beautiful lady
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-03 11:51 PM
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20. DON'T BE GAUCHE; EVERYONE'S DOING IT
That movie is incredibly stupid but I love it.
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eileen from OH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-08-03 12:05 AM
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21. God, so do I!
Her, and Gilda.

"Ah, SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE AT LAST I'VE FOUND YOU. . .!"

Fuckin' brilliant.

eileen from OH
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stanwyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-08-03 07:00 AM
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23. And don't forget her duet with Gilda
she was Marlena Dietrich and Gilda was Barbara Walters. I miss her, too. Hope she's reading these posts. You've not forgotten, Madeline. We love you.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-08-03 07:20 AM
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25. A true gem and american treasure she was
Loved her part in "Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother", too. Which film doesn't get anywhere near the credit it deserves. Wilder was hilarious, so was Feldman, and Dom Deloise in that movie makes me laugh every time he openes his mouth.


Madeline: How did you know there wasn't a Charing Cross Bank?
Wilder: I assumed you were lying.

(can't remember what madeline said - some street or bank name she gave.)
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regnaD kciN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-08-03 09:01 AM
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26. Her last on-screen role...
...was as a aging Long Island housewife in Judy Berlin (one of the most underrated films of the past decade). It's a wonderful performance quite different from her usual comic style -- both funny and sad at the same time.

(Her final performance ever was a voice part in Pixar's A Bug's Life.)
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-08-03 11:03 AM
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30. I never saw Judy Berlin--I should rent it
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Nlighten1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-08-03 09:23 AM
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27. no...no...no...no...yes!
Queen: What will happen if he is caught?
Maid: If he is caught he will be hung/
Queen: Not necessarily.
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mndemocrat_29 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-08-03 11:57 AM
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32. She's one of the screen's greatest comediennes
Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Clue...
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romantico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-08-03 12:04 PM
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34. loved her in
Paper Moon w/RYan O'Neal! "I gots to go tinkley winkley"
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-08-03 12:09 PM
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35. Hey, why does Tatum O'Neal have an Oscar and Madeline doesn't?
Shows you how f**ked up the Academy is!
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Melsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-08-03 12:13 PM
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36. It's so sad that she died
I hadn't known that. Next time I get dvds I'm going to look for some of her movies.
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