Sadly, She was Only 57 Years Old - The Life and Sad Ending of Madeline Kahn

sadly she was only 57 years old the life and sad ending of madeline khan the best comic performers are the ones who never seem to work too hard to get a laugh the ones who are deadly serious but ever so slightly cock-eyed or bet and madeleine khan was a delightful example of this throughout her sadly circumscribed and shortened life and career madeleine khan was born madeline gail khan on september 29 1942 in boston and raised in new york city primarily by her mother who divorced khan's father when khan was very young and then remarried when she was 11. shy and insecure as a child she was encouraged by her mother to flower creatively and was given piano dance and voice lessons to expedite the process khan slipped through high school unnoticed and won a scholarship to hofstra university where she majored in drama then switched to music and finally graduated as a speech therapist meanwhile she kept up with her singing and following college decided to pursue an acting career waiting tables and making the rounds in 1965 she snagged a role in the chorus of a city center revival of kiss me kate khan then spent two years performing opera and light opera roles with the green mansions repertory company in upstate new york she got her first break with a role in new faces of 1968 in which she delighted the critics with a breck well parody das chicago song she won additional raves and her first tony nomination for her portrayal of chrissy an ambitious go-go dancer in david rabb's boom boom room 1973 performed at lincoln center she is extraordinary in the quality of her emotion her evocation of a fighting vulnerability her struggle to seize the sweetness of her humanity wrote jack kroll in newsweek november 19 1973 the actress made her film debut in peter bognovich what's up doc 1972 stealing several scenes from superstar barbara streisand miss khan who has a voice that sounds as if it had been filtered through a ceramic nose just about takes off with the movie exclaimed vincent can be in the new york times bogdanovich cast her in paper moon 1973. this time as trixie delight a depression stripper who takes up with a con artist ryan o'neill and his equally crafty young daughter tatum o'neill khan's performance described by judith christ as sheer delight earned her an oscar nomination as best supporting actress was in peak form in blazing saddles her portrayals of lily von schupp a spoof of marilyn de rich spoof industries rides again brought her a second oscar nomination for best supporting actress sadly on december 3rd 1999 khan died suddenly of ovarian cancer at age 57 goodbye madeline khan

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Length: 4min 50sec (290 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 14 2021