Imogene Coca, John Cullum & Madeline Kahn in a rehearsal shot fr. the Broadway musical “On the Twentieth Century”

Madeline Kahn in On the Twentieth Century, 1978

_{Madeline Kahn performing ‘Veronique’ in On The Twentieth Century, 1978}

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Madeline Kahn & Kevin Kline in On The Twentieth Century, 1978.

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Madeline Kahn in On The Twentieth Century, 1978.

Madeline was wonderful. And I knew she was. And I knew that the problems that they had were problems that you just have with talents like Madeline. She’s a very sensitive and shy kind of person, and… I didn’t think that they had handled her right… They didn’t treat her like the star that she deserved to be treated like. That’s what I think…

I never recovered, quite, from the loss of Madeline. I mean, Judy was wonderful, but Madeline had… the magic of Madeline Kahn. And it’s just too bad that more people didn’t get a chance to see it.“

-John Cullum (Source)

Madeline Kahn, John Cullum, and cast of On the Twentieth Century, 1978

Madeline Kahn, George Coe, and Dean Dittman on stage in On the Twentieth Century, 1978

Madeline Kahn performing ‘Veronique’ on stage in On the Twentieth Century, 1978

I was courted for a year and given the impression that they wanted me and no one but me. But almost immediately it became very difficult for me to present ideas. Once the show opened I felt decidedly unappreciated by the producers. So it ended with them wanting me to leave and me wanting to leave: There was a definite lack of communication; I still don’t know exactly what happened.

- Madeline Kahn on her departure from On the Twentieth Century