Madeline Kahn Filmography

Intimate Portrait: Madeline Kahn

A Bug's Life

Actors: Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere, Phyllis Diller

Synopsis: John Lasseter, director of Pixar's movie phenomenon Toy Story, has set new standards in computer animation with this effort, another Disney-released children's epic entitled A Bug's Life. Blending classic Disney storytelling characters and the mysterious underground world of bugs, Lasseter has Read More

For Love Alone

Actors: Stephen Collins, Sanna Vraa, Madeline Kahn, Trevor Eve, Brigitte Paquette

Synopsis: This made-for-television drama is based on a novel by Ivana Trump and centers on a Czechoslovakian immigrant's rise to the highest levels of the American aristocracy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

London Suite

Actors: Kelsey Grammer, Richard Michaels, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jonathan Silverman, Madeline Kahn, Kristen Johnston, Richard Mulligan, Patricia Clarkson, Julie Hagerty

Synopsis: Crafted in the mold of his classic play-cum-films Plaza Suite and California Suite, the legendary Neil Simon authors London Suite, a made-for-television movie that took its first bows in September 1996. As in the prior films, Simon presents a series of couplets that unfold in and around a single Read More

Saturday Night Live: Madeline Kahn [3]

Actors: Madeline Kahn, Bush

Synopsis: This 1995 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Madeline Kahn and features musical guest Bush. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Lucky Luke: Luke's Fiance

Synopsis: This episode of Lucky Luke, the comedy-western television series, follows Luke (Terrence Hill) as he escorts a group of brides to their new miner husbands. Unbeknownst to him, one of the brides is Jenny, his old outlaw rival who may not be the blushing bride her husband expects. Luke suspects Read More

Nixon

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins

Synopsis: Oliver Stone, the most outspokenly political American filmmaker of the 1980s and '90s, directs this epic-length biography of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the U.S., who was re-elected by a landslide in 1972, only to resign in disgrace two years later. Taking a non-linear approach, Nixon Read More

Lucky Luke: Ghost Train

Lucky Luke: Midsummer

Mixed Nuts

Actors: Steve Martin, Madeline Kahn, Robert Klein, Anthony LaPaglia, Juliette Lewis, Rita Wilson

Synopsis: A holiday comedy with dark overtones, Mixed Nuts presents a supposedly humorous look at the behind-the-scenes events at a crisis hotline on Christmas Eve. Philip (Steve Martin) runs Lifesavers, a Venice, California organization dedicated to helping the depressed and troubled. Unfortunately, Philip Read More

Dr. Seuss: Hunches in Bunches

For Richer, for Poorer

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Talia Shire, Jonathan Silverman, Joanna Gleason, Madeline Kahn

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV comedy, a self-made man (Jack Lemmon) tries to teach is idle son (Jonathan Silverman) and greedy wife a lesson by giving away his hard-earned wealth. However, the plan doesn't go quite as smoothly as expected. Released on video under the title Father, Son and the Mistress. Read More

Betsy's Wedding

Actors: Alan Alda, Madeline Kahn, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony LaPaglia

Synopsis: Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper (Molly Ringwald) and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Jake Lovell(Dylan Walsh), just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie (Alan Alda), a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP Read More

Wanted: The Perfect Guy

Synopsis: An Emmy Award winning production, this movie depicts the plight of a single parent and her children, who are desperately seeking a Mr. Right for their divorced mother. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

The Best of Gilda Radner

Synopsis: Within a single year, Gilda Radner rose from talented but obscure improv comedienne to "America's Sweetheart" thanks to NBC's Saturday Night Live. The 60-minute video The Best of Gilda Radner is culled from SNL's vintage years, 1975 to 1980. Included are such beloved Radner creations as Roseanne Read More

An American Tail

Actors: Cathianne Blore, Dom DeLuise, John Finnegan, Philip Glasser, Amy Green

Synopsis: An American Tail is a beautifully rendered animated flim that tells an overly familiar story in terms children can easily understand. Fievel Mousekewitz and his family of Russian-Jewish mice escape from their homeland in the late 1800s, boarding a boat headed toward America to evade the Czarist Read More

My Little Pony: The Movie

Actors: Danny DeVito, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Rhea Perlman, Tony Randall

Synopsis: In this entertaining feature for the 3- to10-year-old set, the wicked witch Hydia (voice of Cloris Leachman) and her two nasty daughters, Reeka and Draggle (voices of Rhea Pearlman and Madeline Kahn) are scheming to flood Ponyland with a strange liquid called Smooze. The ponies find allies in the Read More

The Best of Dan Aykroyd

Synopsis: The Best of Dan Aykroyd is a 60-minute compilation of highlights from the first five years of TV's Saturday Night Live. As indicated by the title, the emphasis is on the multitalented Dan Aykroyd. The bits vary in quality but hit the target with far more frequency than the current dismal Read More

Wanted: A Perfect Guy

Actors: Ben Affleck, Madeline Kahn, Pam Potillo, Keith Szarabajka, Melanie Mayron

Synopsis: Thirteen-year-old Ben Affleck heads the cast of this semi-comic ABC Afterschool Special. Affleck plays Danny Coleman, the teenaged son of New York divorcée Ellie Coleman (Madeline Kahn). Sensing his mother's loneliness, Danny conspires with his girlfriend, Melanie (Pam Potillo), to secretly Read More

Gonzo Presents Muppet Weird Stuff

Synopsis: Take this guided tour with Gonzo through his mansion, but be careful! He catches a cannonball and wrestles a brick, blindfolded in this entertaining story. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Clue

Actors: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Martin Mull, Christopher Lloyd, Lesley Ann Warren, Michael McKean

Synopsis: In this spoof of McCarthy-era paranoia and 1950s wholesomeness, the characters and plot are drawn from the popular Parker Brothers board game of the same name. On a dark and stormy night in 1954, six individuals with ties to Washington are assembled for a dinner party at the swanky mansion of one Read More

City Heat

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, Rip Torn

Synopsis: This standard, tongue-in-cheek, gangsters and good guys saga is carried on the star power and screen presence of Clint Eastwood as Lt. Speer, a taciturn, tough, play-it-by-the-book cop, and on Burt Reynolds as Mike Murphy, Speer's old friend in the force, now turned private eye but still a Read More

Reading Rainbow: Bea and Mr. Jones

Synopsis: Switching roles is an entertaining concept that has been explored in movies. In Reading Rainbow: Bea and Mr. Jones, a five-year-old girl takes on her father's persona and goes to work, while her dad attends kindergarten. Host LeVar Burton checks out the costume collection of the program and plays Read More

Yellowbeard

Actors: Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Tommy Chong, Eric Idle, Peter Cook

Synopsis: This colorful spoof of pirate movies had all the makings of a classic farce and yet sank straight to Davy Jones' locker at the box-office, for despite it's all-star international cast of famous comedians, and despite the fact that it was largely co-written by "Monty Python"-veteran Graham Chapman Read More

Scrambled Feet

Synopsis: A behind-the-scenes satire of the world of show business. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Slapstick of Another Kind

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, John Abbott, Jim Backus

Synopsis: This dismal sci-fi comedy is based on a novel by Kurt Vonnegut and features Jerry Lewis and Madeline Kahn in dual roles as wealthy, respected parents who give birth to two gigantic, and ugly twins. The appalled parents try to keep them hidden away for they do not know that their "children" are Read More

Pandemonium

Actors: Tom Smothers, Carol Kane, Miles Chapin, Debra Scott, Marc McClure

Synopsis: Tom Smothers and Carol Kane co-star with Paul Reubens and Judge Reinhold in this uneven comedy spoof of slasher films. Sergeant Cooper (Smothers) is a Canadian Mountie who investigates the death of cheerleaders attending a summer camp at Indiana's It Had To Be University. Cameo appearances by Eve Arden Read More

History of the World -- Part I

Actors: Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: Mel Brooks produced, directed, wrote, and starred in this episodic comedy in the spirit of Monty Python and the 1957 studio travesty The Story of Mankind. The film is divided into five sequences that play like blue-toned Eddie Cantor vaudeville sketches -- "The Dawn of Man," "The Stone Age," The Read More

Happy Birthday, Gemini

Actors: Madeline Kahn, Rita Moreno, Robert Viharo, Alan Rosenberg, Sarah Holcomb

Synopsis: This routine drama-comedy about the trials of walking out of the closet has some notable performances such as that of Madeleine Kahn as a salty, warm-hearted, and terribly promiscuous neighbor, and Robert Viharo as an outgoing father. Francis Geminiani (Alan Rosenberg) has a romance going with Read More

First Family

Actors: Gilda Radner, Bob Newhart, Madeline Kahn, Richard Benjamin, Bob Dishy

Synopsis: Gilda Radner, Bob Newhart, and Madeline Kahn star in this comedy. The farce sends up an idiotic First Family in the persona of a bumbling president (Newhart), his semi-alcoholic wife (Kahn), and his oversexed daughter (Radner). Satirizing the artificial, formal speech of real-life First Families Read More

Simon

Actors: Alan Arkin, Austin Pendleton, Judy Graubart, William Finley, Jayant

Synopsis: In this far-out comedy that slams it to academia, television, and the military, Simon (Alan Arkin) is a puffed-up professor who is boondoggled by a group of geniuses in a think tank. Becker (Austin Pendleton) leads the wacked-out thinkers as they invent off-the-wall games to keep themselves amused Read More

Wholly Moses!

Actors: Dudley Moore, Laraine Newman, James Coco, Paul Sand, Jack Gilford

Synopsis: A broadly farcical comedy that attempts to ape the wickedly funny, Bible-spoofing humor of the previous year's Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), this all-star rib-tickler top-lines Dudley Moore as Herschel, a historical also-ran whose life so closely parallels that of Moses that Herschel begins Read More

The Muppet Movie

Actors: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Charles Durning, Dave Goelz

Synopsis: Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, from of the large crew of loveably fuzzy characters created by puppetmaster Jim Henson, have embarked on a quest for stardom. They take a trip to Hollywood, riding in or on a wide variety of vehicles along the way. They begin their journey on a bicycle pedalled by Read More

The Cheap Detective

Actors: Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Sid Caesar, Stockard Channing, Dom DeLuise, Louise Fletcher, John Houseman, Madeline Kahn, Scatman Crothers

Synopsis: Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou Pekinpaugh, a San Francisco private detective accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress, the partner's wife, Georgia Merkle (Marsha Mason). Police Read More

Saturday Night Live: Madeline Kahn [2]

Actors: Madeline Kahn, Taj Mahal

Synopsis: This 1977 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Madeline Kahn and features musical guest Taj Mahal. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

High Anxiety

Actors: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Ron Carey

Synopsis: This is Mel Brooks' spoof of over ten Alfred Hitchcock classics, including Psycho, Vertigo, and The Birds (Brooks actually used the bird trainer from that classic suspense movie in making his film). Brooks plays Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke, a renowned Harvard psychiatrist with a concealed fear of Read More

Saturday Night Live: Madeline Kahn [1]

Actors: Madeline Kahn, Carly Simon

Synopsis: This 1976 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Madeline Kahn, and features at least two classic sketches--Dan Aykroyd as Richard Nixon and John Belushi as Henry Kissinger in a brutal parody of The Final Days, and Gilda Radner as Barbara Walters. The musical guest is Carly Simon. ~ Stephen Read More

Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Actors: Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Art Carney, Phil Silvers, Ron Leibman

Synopsis: This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho of a financially struggling studio turns a lost dog into a legend. The story features a number of old stars making cameo appearances. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

At Long Last Love

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Madeline Kahn, Duilio del Prete, Eileen Brennan

Synopsis: Peter Bogdanovich's attempt to direct a homage to the great musicals of the 1930s is now remembered as one of the embarrassments of the 1970s. The film's thin plot, standard for the genre, centers on the romantic entanglements and misunderstandings among six stock characters: the bored playboy (Burt Reynolds Read More

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

Actors: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Leo McKern

Synopsis: Comic actor Gene Wilder made his debut as a writer and director in this period comedy in which he plays Sigerson Holmes, the older bother of famous detective Sherlock Holmes. For years, Sigerson has been living in his little brother's shadow, and he is convinced that he must constantly prove his Read More

Young Frankenstein

Actors: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: Lending his burlesque touch to 1970s genre revision, Mel Brooks followed his hit "western" Blazing Saddles with this parody of 1930s Universal horror movies. Determined to live down his family's reputation, Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (co-screenwriter Gene Wilder) insists on pronouncing his name Read More

Blazing Saddles

Actors: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, David Huddleston, Mel Brooks, Alex Karras, Madeline Kahn

Synopsis: Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene Wilder have Read More

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Actors: Mike Hammett, Robert Packer

Synopsis: In this children's movies, a young brother and sister escape from the boredom of their suburban neighborhood and high-tail it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. There they wind up hiding within the maze of hallways until the girl finds a beautiful white statue. She is captivated Read More

Paper Moon

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman, P.J. Johnson

Synopsis: The year is 1936. Orphaned Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal, in her film debut) is left in the care of unethical travelling Bible salesman Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal, Tatum's dad), who may or may not be her father. En route to Addie's relatives, Moses learns that the 9-year-old is quite a handful: she Read More

What's Up, Doc?

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Kenneth Mars, Austin Pendleton, Sorrell Booke

Synopsis: With Howard Hawks's Bringing Up Baby (1938) as his blueprint, Peter Bogdanovich resurrected and payed homage to 1930s screwball comedy in What's Up, Doc? (1972). When wacky co-ed Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand, in the Katharine Hepburn part) spies nebbishy musicologist Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal Read More

Dove

Actors: Madeline Kahn

Synopsis: To catalog the visual and verbal gags in The Dove would be to ruin this delightful short-subject spoof for the uninitiated viewer. Suffice to say that this "winner of the Golden Escargot Award" (and Oscar nominee) is a dead-on satire of Ingmar Bergman movies in general and Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal Read More

Dr. Seuss: The Sleep Book

Actors: Madeline Kahn

Synopsis: Sleep rituals have been a part of families for thousands of years. But for the past four decades, children have been demanding to have Dr. Seuss' The Sleep Book read to them every night. Random House has brought the book to video, thereby breathing life into Snorter McPhail and his Snore-a-Snort Read More