Cast: Madeline Kahn

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Madeline Kahn. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Paper Moon

1973 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast Ryan O'Neal · Tatum O'Neal · Madeline Kahn · John Hillerman

Synopsis Adapted from the novel, "Addie Pray" (1971) by Joe David Brown, PAPER MOON is the story of Moses Pray and Addie Loggins. With scenery reminiscent of "The Grapes of Wrath," the film is set in the depression-era Midwestern region of...

7.6

5K votes

7.6

5K votes

Young Frankenstein

1974 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Mel Brooks

Cast Gene Wilder · Peter Boyle · Marty Feldman · Cloris Leachman

Synopsis An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that he is not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.

7.6

35K votes

7.6

35K votes

What's Up Doc?

1972 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast Barbra Streisand · Ryan O'Neal · Madeline Kahn · Kenneth Mars

Synopsis Trouble seems to follow know-it-all Judy Maxwell wherever she goes. This time it takes the form of Howard Bannister, a musicologist attending a convention where he's competing for a grant that will allow him to study the musical properties of...

7.1

11K votes

7.1

11K votes

Clue

1985 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Jonathan Lynn

Cast Eileen Brennan · Tim Curry · Madeline Kahn · Christopher Lloyd

Synopsis Undoubtedly the first movie in history to have played in theaters with three different endings (depending on which theater you attended), Clue is a silly whodunit based on the familiar board game featuring Colonel Mustard, Mrs. Peacock, and all the...

6.3

6K votes

6.3

6K votes

Nixon

1995 · Movie · 192 min. · United States

Direction Oliver Stone

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Joan Allen · James Woods · Paul Sorvino

Synopsis Director Oliver Stone brings us a film about the 37th president of the United States, Richard Milhous Nixon (Sir Anthony Hopkins), and his wife, Pat Nixon (Joan Allen). The film begins with the Watergate burglary, where five intruders are discovered...

6.2

4K votes

6.2

4K votes

Blazing Saddles

1974 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Mel Brooks

Cast Gene Wilder · Cleavon Little · Slim Pickens · Madeline Kahn

Synopsis To ruin a western town, a corrupt political boss appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.

6.0

4K votes

6.0

4K votes

At Long Last Love

1975 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast Burt Reynolds · Cybill Shepherd · Madeline Kahn · Duilio Del Prete

Synopsis A millionaire named Michael Oliver Pritchard III and a singer named Kitty O'Kelly meet and fall in love. Meanwhile, an indigent woman named Brooke Carter and an Italian gambler named Johnny Spanish meet and fall in love. All four people...

6.0

81 votes

6.0

81 votes

High Anxiety

1977 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Mel Brooks

Cast Mel Brooks · Madeline Kahn · Cloris Leachman · Harvey Korman

Synopsis In this perceptive, sidesplitting homage to Hichcock films, director, star, and writer Mel Brooks plays the average American guy, psychiatrist Richard Thorndyke (as in Roger Thorndike, Cary Grant's character in NORTH BY NORTHWEST), who's terrified of heights (think VERTIGO). He...

5.8

884 votes

5.8

884 votes

The Muppet Movie

1979 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction James Frawley

Cast The Muppets · Charles Durning · Austin Pendleton · Mel Brooks

Synopsis Kermit the Frog is discovered playing banjo in the Florida swamps by a talent agent and told that he has promise. And so Kermit sets out for Hollywood to find fame and fortune. He is joined along the way by...

5.7

979 votes

5.7

979 votes

History of the World: Part I

1981 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Mel Brooks

Cast Mel Brooks · Dom DeLuise · Madeline Kahn · Harvey Korman

Synopsis From the dawn of man to the distant future, mankind's evolution (or lack thereof) is traced. Often ridiculous but never serious, we learn the truth behind the Roman Emperor, we learn what REALLY happened at the last supper, the circumstances...

5.6

5K votes

5.6

5K votes

City Heat

1984 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Richard Benjamin

Cast Clint Eastwood · Burt Reynolds · Jane Alexander · Madeline Kahn

Synopsis Set in Kansas City in 1933, police detective Eastwood is now on bad terms with his former partner, Reynolds, who has turned in his badge for the trenchcoat of a private eye. Business is lousy, however, and when his partner,...

5.3

2K votes

5.3

2K votes

Direction Gene Wilder

Cast Gene Wilder · Madeline Kahn · Marty Feldman · John Le Mesurier

Synopsis Gene Wilder plays Sherlock Holmes' younger brother who is annoyed that he has had to live in Sherlock's shadow for so long. When Sherlock goes to the continent, he sends a case to his brother who constantly tries with varying...

5.2

813 votes

5.2

813 votes

5.2

21 votes

Betsy's Wedding

1990 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Alan Alda

Cast Alan Alda · Madeline Kahn · Molly Ringwald · Ally Sheedy

Synopsis Betsy's getting married - that moment that families, and especially fathers anxiously await and secretly dread. Dad's contracting business is not doing so well, but he still wants to throw the party to end all parties. He now has to...

5.0

232 votes

5.0

232 votes

Yellowbeard

1983 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mel Damski

Cast Graham Chapman · Peter Boyle · Cheech Marin · Tommy Chong

Synopsis Yellowbeard, a pirate's pirate, is allowed to escape from prison to lead the authorities to his treasure. He finds that his wife neglected to tell him that he now has a son, 20, and shame of shame, an intellectual. The...

4.8

157 votes

4.8

157 votes

Mixed Nuts

1994 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Nora Ephron

Cast Steve Martin · Rita Wilson · Madeline Kahn · Juliette Lewis

Synopsis Christmas is only hours away, and Philip and his dedicated staff are about to go just a little crazy. Philip is a clumsy do-gooder who runs Lifesavers, a suicide prevention hotline service in the funky beach community of Venice, California....

4.3

646 votes

4.3

646 votes

Direction Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Cast Stephen Collins · Sanna Vraa · Trevor Eve · Brigitte Paquette

Synopsis Follows the triumphs and tragedies of Katrinka Kovár, a young Czechoslovakian ski prodigy who discovers high-society splendor in the arms of a wealthy American businessman. When lust turns to lies, Katrinka - long haunted by a burning secret from her...

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Slapstick (Of Another Kind)

1982 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Steven Paul

Cast Jerry Lewis · Madeline Kahn · Marty Feldman · John Abbott

Synopsis Caleb Swain and his wife Lutetia are a rich couple deemed to be the most beautiful of all the beautiful people by the press. This changes when Lutetia gives birth to oversize, deformed twins named Wilbur and Eliza. Unknown to...

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Not rated

Wholly Moses!

1980 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Gary Weis

Cast Dudley Moore · Laraine Newman · James Coco · Paul Sand

Synopsis Harvey and Zoey, two tourists travelling through Israel, discover an ancient scroll describing the life of Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from God to free his people from Egyptian slavery, but Moses keeps blundering...

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Not rated

Cosby (TV Series)

1996 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Don Scardino · John Whitesell · Tim Ryder · John Bowab

Cast Bill Cosby · Phylicia Rashad · T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh · Doug E. Doug

Synopsis Hilton Lucas was forced by his employer to retire. His wife has trouble with him always being at home and so does he.

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Not rated