Imogene Coca, John Cullum & Madeline Kahn in a rehearsal shot fr. the Broadway musical “On the Twentieth Century”
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Madeline Kahn
Dedicated to actress and singer, Madeline Kahn. She is perhaps best known for the films she did with Mel Brooks' 'Blazing Saddles' and Peter Bogdanovich's 'Paper Moon', she was Oscar nominated for both roles. Madeline had an opera soprano singing voice...
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6 years ago · 47 #madeline kahn #john cullum #imogene coca #On the Twentieth Century #candid #1970s #stage
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