What the Hell Happened to Molly Ringwald?

Did Molly Ringwald's stardom begin to fade due to the emergence of Winona Ryder?

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Molly Ringwald simply never aged into the adult actor that she needed to become. While she was fine in teenaged fare like Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink, when it came to roles that should have exploited her young adult sexuality (Fresh Horses, Strike It Rich, Betsy’s Wedding, etc.) things didn’t pan out for her. She looked like the girl from Sixteen Candles pretending to be an adult.

Things never got better from there. Her role in the Stephen King miniseries, The Stand didn’t seem to pan out for her. The remainder of the 1990s was filled with minor roles as she transitioned from leading parts into becoming a character actor. Additionally, she rather unwisely declined the leading roles in Pretty Woman and Ghost, films which made her peers, Julia Roberts and Demi Moore, into major box office stars.

Ringwald moved to Paris for several years and was out of the spotlight. When she returned to the States, Hollywood had largely passed her by. While she has been able to find character roles, she has also transitioned into mother/grandmother roles far too quickly. This means that she has to compete with a wider range of performers, for a narrow range of roles.

Winona Ryder and Ringwald were never competitors. Ryder went almost directly from teenaged roles into adult fare. She acted in a wider variety of roles than Ringwald did and, until her arrest for shoplifting, her career was on the ascendance. Had Ryder not lost a step, she would have been a major star in Hollywood for at least the decade between 1995 and 2005 (She was in a hit film, Mr. Deeds in 2002; however it was an Adam Sandler vehicle and he was the only memorable part).

Her fans were graduated from high school. She got old.

I revel in the fall of the Brat Pack, one of the worst episodes in pop culture history—but does something as trivial as pop culture deserve to have a chronicled history? Why not, then, a history of boogers?