Madeline Kahn should have played Molly

I've re-thought my last post on this thread and have decided that Teri Garr should have played Molly.

I worked on "Life Stinks" and Madline Kahn was who Mel Brooks wanted. I believe she had a scheduling conflict. Leslie stepped in.

i like all three: lesley ann warren, madeline kahn and (somebody mentioned) teri garr.

warren may've been too pretty and elegant to be believable as a bag lady (though, she would be more convincing as a dancer - which she actually was - than either kahn or garr).
but hey, if you were a gazillionaire trying to survive in a dangerous l.a. slum for 30 days because of a bet, and you did, and you found a queen to take back to your empire when it was all said and done, you couldn't do much better than taking a lesley ann warren home...
but, we usually don't think of her when it comes to slapstick comedy, and the like (and i do think she pulls it off in "life stinks").

generally, though, i agree that kahn would've been the best of these great choices: i can't even think of "high anxiety," "young frankenstein," or "slapstick," without laughing out loud thinking about her at certain moments in movies like those. and, i personally always associate her with mel brooks and his films; even though, she wasn't in many of them. she wasn't a stageworthy beauty like warren, but she had a flair that makes me wonder what she would've done with the "molly" role. guess that's why she was brooks' first choice.

i also think garr would've been good at the time. she didn't have the beauty of a warren, or the comedic style of a kahn, but she would've made a great "molly."

and, i don't think brooks is out of his depth starring in this movie. he starred in some of his other films, and was always believable and funny. he was a comedian, after all.

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