Michelle Pfeiffer
I have never seen a more beautiful woman than Michelle Pfeiffer. She is breathtaking in this especially.
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I don´t think her singing was any good, I mean her voice. The scene ´Making Woopee´ with her as a femme fatale is one of the bests along with the ones Jeff Bridges plays the piano alone.
Michelle is specially beautiful in this movie though.
I will have to admit that I had seen this movie without any expectation or idea of what the story was about. When the movie was released I was sixteen years old (Holy Crap I just made myself feel old right then) and I went because I was bored and I had skipped school. I sat in the theater and fell in love with this strikingly beautiful, sensous, alarmingly hot (forgive my use of that word right there, but damn! have you seen this movie?) woman singing. Then she made it even all the more amazing with that red dress, that piano, that voice, that song.......it was almost too much for a boy with raging hormones to take, thankfully I was born with self control and did not get arrested for indecent exposure or anything. For the boys that could understand the dpth pf this story back then, and who were also raging in the hormone department like I was then, because of this movie Michelle Pfieffer became a goddess to us, for some of us she still is.
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I Agree... She is a very beautiful woman. So lucky north American people to have such a goddess!!!
In France we have Jeanne d'Arc, but not in the same register.
I will ask for a green card to work at Santa Ana.
Very good movie with a trio of marvellous actors.
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I agree.
Some posters seem to forget that Susie Diamond is grinding out a living singing in smoke-filled Seattle-area hotel lounges -- she doesn't HAVE to have the singing voice, of say, an Ella Fitzgerald or Peggy Lee.
I agree that Michelle's singing ability perfectly suited the character. She's supposed to be a second-rate hotel lounge singer, not a jazz diva or a top recording artist. And her sultry rendition of "Makin' Whoopee" while slinking around on that piano in that red dress is easily the most erotic female musical performance in a movie since Rita Hayworth did "Put the Blame on Mame" in Gilda.
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I agree JBA, but when I was younger (MUCH younger!), I fell in love with the most beautiful woman I have ever seen...and she is French. Catherine Deneuve was in a movie in 1969 called 'The April Fools' with Jack Lemon. Michelle Pfeiffer is striking, but Deneuve was unforgettable.
shareSomeone can have a great singing voice but not the ability to sing a song the way Michelle Pfeiffer can - she was amazing in this film and stole every scene she appeared in. By the way JBA when my husband asked me who I would like to look like if I had the choice I said Catherine Deneuve, she was absolutely stunning as a young woman like you say. Michelle Pfeiffer comes a close second.
shareDeNeueve is ok, but the camera is totally in love with Michelle Pfeiffer.
shareits not close. pfeiffer is better in every category than that cow denuve
shareI agree Michelle Pfeiffer was strikingly beautiful in this film, and I thought had about as good a rapport with Jeff Bridges as any other male leads she has played off.
shareI'm a gay guy, but I think I could just be persuaded by Michelle in this movie! She's stunning...
shareWell, I'm a straight girl, and I think I could be persuaded by Michelle in this movie too! Lol, she is stunningly beautiful in this movie, really sexy and glamorous and tough as nails too. She has all the elements of a great old-Hollywood star like Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth or Grace Kelly here. While I agree that Catherine Deneuve was extremely beautiful in her prime, I think Pfeiffer looks even better here. Her performance too is phenomenal - she should definitely have won the Oscar over Jessica Tandy in Driving Miss Daisy.
share Yeah,she's gorgeous.I was surprised at how much I liked her singing.Her voice
might not be technically perfect but her style more than makes up for it.
Yes, she's the perfect match for this film and the shifts in her voice also help develop the theme of buried talent vs everyday business within entertainment. Btw you know Madonna was actually offered the lead? It's hard to estimate the failure if she had acted Suzie - both in singing and in credibility (for the film to be credible and engage with us it can't have a face everyone will recognize, and Michelle Pfeiffer, though she had done several leads, was not a megastar in 1989). Madonna wouldn't have known how to act with the kind of restraint that carries this gem of a film.
I don't think Michelle steals the show though, she is part of an ensemble here, just like Richard Gere in The Cotton Club.
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