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Madeline Kahn built her comic reputation in a run of Mel Brooks and Peter Bogdanovich films — Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, What's Up, Doc?, High Anxiety — earning two Academy Award nominations along the way for Paper Moon and Blazing Saddles. She also worked steadily on Broadway, picking up four Tony nominations before finally winning in 1993 for The Sisters Rosensweig.