_{Madeline Kahn photographed by Bonnie Schiffman for “The Rollingstone Book of Comedy, 1991}

Billevesées: Progress Report 21: Entering the Home Stretch (?)

Make sure to read William V. Madison’s latest blog post about the upcoming Madeline Kahn biography! And leave a comment telling how excited you are if you want! (Because its going to be great and worth being excited for just sayin’)

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_{Original caption: John Wood still has Madeline Kahn laughing backstage at the Circle in the Square after his opening night performance in Tartuffe, 1977}

madelinekahns:

Happy 88th Birthday Mel Brooks! (June 28, 1926)

He understands me somehow and he loves me somehow. And allows me to be myself to a greater degree more than other people do. I feel very liberated around him. He accepts my raunchier humor.

-Madeline Kahn

madelinekahns:

Happy Birthday Gene Wilder!
(June 11, 1933)

We became friends because we respected each other’s work and we like each other as people. I trust his taste and his intelligence and his point of view. I feel a kinship with him, an affinity as though he were a relative, which is very nice.

-Madeline Kahn

_{During the filming of Madeline Kahn’s scenes in Blazing Saddles, the cast and crew kept laughing, so Mel Brooks asked an assistant to go out and buy more than a hundred handkerchiefs. Whenever anyone on set started to laugh he or she would stifle the sound of laughter in a handkerchief.} 

_{Madeline Kahn at the 1994 Tony Awards}

_{Madeline Kahn in High Anxiety, 1977}