Happy 87th 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

_{I love dogs, I’ve had several. I hate to ruin the illusion but Won Ton Ton, who is supposed to love me, doesn’t love me. He is a professional dog-an actor. When he jumps up and kisses me it’s because I have food spread on my neck or because I am carrying cocktail frankfurters for him hidden in my hand.}

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Madeline Kahn behind the scenes of Yellowbeard with Marty Feldman and Peter Boyle (watch)

Happy Birthday Gene Wilder!

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

_{Madeline Kahn winning the Tony for Best Actress in a Play in 1993 for The Sisters Rosensweig presented to her by her friend Lily Tomlin}

Madeline Kahn on working with Mel Brooks

trixiedelight:

Madeline Kahn’s character in Neil Simon’s The Cheap Detective (1978) was inspired by Mary Astor’s character in The Maltese Falcon (1941). The Cheap Detective featured various Humphrey Bogart film parody scenes including Casablanca (1942) as well.

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Madeline Kahn in High Anxiety (1977)