FrameThrower · Actors · Madeline Kahn
Madeline Kahn
3 films · 190 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1971–1981
Born 29 September 1942 · Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA · died 3 December 1999
Madeline Gail Kahn was an American actress, comedian and singer, known for comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks, including What's Up, Doc? (1972), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), and her Academy Award–nominated roles in Paper Moon (1973) and Blazing Saddles (1974).
Kahn made her Broadway debut in Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968, and received Tony Award nominations for the play In the Boom Boom Room in 1974 and for the original production of the musical On the Twentieth Century in 1978.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 190 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1971–1981
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play1993
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play1993
- Daytime Emmy Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 190 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Madeline takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 66% of their frames are day, 55% natural — the look of the work Madeline takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 190 frames from Madeline Kahn's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.