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Death Becomes Her | |
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Directed by | Robert Zemeckis |
Produced by | Robert Zemeckis Steve Starkey |
Written by | Martin Donovan David Koepp |
Starring | |
Music by | Alan Silvestri |
Cinematography | Dean Cundey |
Edited by | Arthur Schmidt |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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104 minutes | |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $55 million |
Box office | $149 million[1] |
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Death Becomes Her is a 1992 American comedyfantasy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by David Koepp and Martin Donovan, and starring Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, and Goldie Hawn. The film focuses on a pair of rivals (Streep and Hawn), who drink a magic potion that promises eternal youth, but experience unpleasant side effects when they physically die, becoming walking, talking corpses in the process.
Death Becomes Her won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. The film received mixed reviews from critics, but was a commercial success, grossing $149 million worldwide. It has developed a strong cult following, particularly among the LGBT community.
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Plot[edit]
In 1978, narcissistic, manipulative actress Madeline Ashton performs in an awful musical version of Sweet Bird of Youth on Broadway. She invites long-time rival Helen Sharp, an aspiring writer, backstage along with Helen's fiancé, plastic surgeon Ernest Menville. Ernest is smitten with Madeline, and breaks off his engagement with Helen to marry her. Seven years later, in 1985, Helen winds up in a psychiatric hospital after fixating upon Madeline. Obese and depressed, Helen feigns rehabilitation and is released, plotting revenge on Madeline.
Another seven years later, in 1992, Madeline lives in Beverly Hills with Ernest, but they are now miserable. Madeline's acting career has faded with age, and Ernest is an alcoholic reduced to working as a reconstructive mortician. Receiving an invitation to a party celebrating Helen's new book, Madeline rushes to a spa where she regularly receives facial treatments. Understanding Madeline's situation, the spa owner gives her the business card of Lisle Von Rhuman, a woman specializing in youth rejuvenation.
Madeline and Ernest attend the party for Helen's novel, Forever Young, and discover that somehow, Helen is now slim, youthful, and beautiful. Dumbfounded and depressed by Helen's appearance, Madeline visits her young lover, but discovers that he is with a woman his age. Dejected, Madeline drives to Lisle's home. Lisle is a mysterious, glamorous, wealthy socialite claiming to be 71, but looks decades younger. She reveals to Madeline the secret of her beauty and youth—an expensive potion that promises eternal life and an everlasting youthful appearance. Madeline purchases and drinks the potion and is rejuvenated, regaining her beauty. As a condition of purchase, Madeline must disappear from public life after 10 years to keep the existence of the potion secret. Lisle also warns Madeline to take good care of her body.
Helen seduces Ernest and convinces him to kill Madeline. When Madeline returns home, Ernest and she argue, during which Madeline falls down the stairs, breaking her neck. Believing Madeline dead, Ernest phones Helen for advice, not seeing Madeline stand and approach him with her head twisted backward. Ernest assumes she has a dislocated neck and drives her to the emergency room. Madeline is told she is technically dead, and faints. She is taken to the morgue due to her body having no pulse and a temperature below 80 °F. After rescuing Madeline, Ernest takes the sign of her 'resurrection' as a miracle, returns home with Madeline, and uses his skills as a mortician to repair her body.
Helen demands information about Madeline's situation. Overhearing Helen and Ernest discussing their plot to stage Madeline's death, Madeline shoots Helen with a shotgun. Although the blast creates a hole in her abdomen, Helen survives, revealing that she drank the same potion. Fed up with the pair, Ernest prepares to leave, but Helen and Madeline convince him to do one last repair on their bodies. They realize that they will need constant maintenance and scheme to have Ernest drink the potion to ensure that he will always be available.
After bringing Ernest to Lisle, she offers to give him the potion free of charge in exchange for his surgical skills. Ernest refuses to drink it when he realizes the pitfalls of immortality. He pockets the potion and flees, but becomes trapped on the roof. Helen and Madeline implore Ernest to drink the potion to survive an impending fall. Ernest, realizing that they only want him to drink it because they need him for their own selfish reasons and nothing more, refuses and drops the potion to the ground several stories below, but after falling he lands in Lisle's pool and escapes. After Lisle banishes Madeline and Helen from her group, the pair realize that they must now rely on each other for companionship and maintenance.
37 years later, Madeline and Helen attend Ernest's funeral, where he is eulogized as having lived an adventurous and fulfilling life with a large family and friends. The two women are now parodies of their former selves, with cracked, peeling paint and putty covering most of their grey and rotting flesh. Helen trips and teeters at the top of a staircase. After Madeline hesitates to help her, Helen grabs Madeline and the two tumble down the stairs, breaking to pieces. As their disembodied heads totter down together, Helen sardonically asks Madeline, 'Do you remember where you parked the car?'
Cast[edit]
- Meryl Streep as Madeline Ashton
- Bruce Willis as Dr. Ernest Menville
- Goldie Hawn as Helen Sharp
- Isabella Rossellini as Lisle von Rhoman
- Ian Ogilvy as Chagall
- Adam Storke as Dakota Williams
- Alaina Reed Hall as Psychologist
- Michelle Johnson as Anna Jones
- Mary Ellen Trainor as Vivian Adams
- William Frankfather as Mr. Roy Franklin
- John Ingle as Eulogist
- Debra Jo Rupp as Patient
- Fabio as Lisle's bodyguard
- Sydney Pollack as Emergency Department Doctor (uncredited)[citation needed]
Production[edit]
Special effects[edit]
Death Becomes Her was a technologically complex movie to make, and represented a major advancement in the use of computer-generated effects, under the pioneering direction of Industrial Light and Magic.[2][3] For example, it was the first film where computer-generated skin texture was used, in the shot where Madeline resets her neck after her head is smashed with a shovel by Helen.[2] Creating the sequences where Madeline's head is dislocated and facing the wrong way around involved a combination of blue screen technology, an animatronic model created by Amalgamated Dynamics, and prosthetic make-up effects on Meryl Streep to create the look of a twisted neck.[4][5]
The digital advancements pioneered on Death Becomes Her would be incorporated into Industrial Light and Magic's next project, Jurassic Park, released by Universal only a year later. Both films shared cinematographer Dean Cundey and production designer Rick Carter, in addition to ILM.[6]
The production had a fair number of mishaps. For example, in a scene where Helen Sharp and Madeline Ashton are battling with shovels, Meryl Streep accidentally cut Goldie Hawn's face, leaving a faint scar. Streep admitted that she disliked working on a project that focused so heavily on special effects, saying:
“ | My first, my last, my only. I think it's tedious. Whatever concentration you can apply to that kind of comedy is just shredded. You stand there like a piece of machinery—they should get machinery to do it. I loved how it turned out. But it's not fun to act to a lampstand. 'Pretend this is Goldie, right here! Uh, no, I'm sorry, Bob, she went off the mark by five centimeters, and now her head won't match her neck!' It was like being at the dentist.[7] | ” |
Filming locations[edit]
The film was made entirely in Los Angeles and used several locations also frequently used in film and television, including the Greystone Mansion (Ernest's funeral home) and the Ebell of Los Angeles (Helen's book party).[8] The exterior of Madeline and Ernest's mansion is located at 1125 Oak Grove Avenue in San Marino, but the interior was a set built on a soundstage.[9][unreliable source] The ending scene where Helen and Madeline tumble down a set of stairs outside a chapel was filmed at Mount St. Mary's University (Los Angeles) in Brentwood.[10]
Editing[edit]
The theatrical version of Death Becomes Her omitted or shortened many scenes featured in the rough cut of the movie.[11][unreliable source?] Robert Zemeckis decided this was needed to accelerate the pace of the film and eliminate extraneous jokes. Most dramatically, the original ending was entirely redone after test audiences reacted negatively to it.[12] The ending featured Ernest, after he has fled Lisle's party, meeting a bartender (Tracey Ullman), who helps him fake his death to evade Madeline and Helen. The two women encounter Ernest and the bartender 27 years later, living happily as a retired couple.[13] Zemeckis thought the ending was too happy and opted for the darker ending featured in the final cut.[13] Ullman was one of five actors with speaking roles in the film to be eliminated.[13] Other scenes that were eliminated included one in which Madeline talks to her agent (Jonathan Silverman) and one in which Ernest removes a frozen Madeline from the kitchen freezer he has stored her in.[11] None of the scenes have been released publicly, but sequences can still be viewed in the original theatrical trailer.[14]
Music[edit]
The score was composed by American film composer Alan Silvestri, who also composed scores of other films directed by Zemeckis.[15]
Release and reception[edit]
The film opened at number one at the box office with $12,110,355 on the same weekend as and ahead of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Bebe's Kids.[16] It went on to earn over $58.4 million domestically and $90.6 million internationally.[17]
The film's release on DVD was called 'appallingly bad',[18] 'horrible' and 'sloppy'[19] due to the quality of its transfer, which has been said to suffer from excessive grain, blur, and muted colors.[18] Many online DVD forum users speculated that the DVD transfer was taken from the Laserdisc edition of the film and called for a restorative release. The film was initially distributed in an open-matte, fullscreen edition with an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 in the United States before a widescreen version with its intended ratio (1.85:1) was released and subsequently distributed worldwide. The latter version has also been mistakenly labelled anamorphic.[20] It was later released in North America on Blu-ray from Shout Factory on April 26, 2016.
Critical response[edit]
The film received mixed reviews.[21][22]Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 52% based on reviews from 48 critics with the consensus: 'Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep are as fabulous as Death Becomes Her's innovative special effects; Robert Zemeckis' satire, on the other hand, is as hollow as the world it mocks.'[23] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of 'B' on an A+ to F scale.[24]
Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert both gave the film a 'thumbs down', commenting that while the film had great special effects, it lacked any real substance or character depth.[25]
Accolades[edit]
Award | Role | Result |
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Academy Awards | Best Visual Effects | Won |
BAFTA Award | Best Visual Effects | Won |
Golden Globe Award | Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Meryl Streep) | Nominated |
Saturn Award | Best Fantasy Film | Nominated |
Best Director (Robert Zemeckis) | Nominated | |
Best Writing (Martin Donovan, David Koepp) | Nominated | |
Best Actor (Bruce Willis) | Nominated | |
Best Actress (Meryl Streep) | Nominated | |
Best Music (Alan Silvestri) | Nominated | |
Best Make-up (Dick Smith, Kevin Haney) | Nominated | |
Best Supporting Actress (Isabella Rossellini) | Won | |
Best Special Effects | Won |
Legacy[edit]
Death Becomes Her has acquired a significant cult following, especially in the LGBT community.[26] An article in Vanity Fair titled 'The Gloriously Queer Afterlife of 'Death Becomes Her' called the film a 'gay cult classic' and 'a touchstone of the queer community'.[27] The movie is screened in bars during Pride Month, while the characters of Madeline and Helen are favorites of drag performers. In this vein, the movie inspired a Death Becomes Her-themed runway show on season 7 of RuPaul's Drag Race.[26] The winner of season 5, Jinkx Monsoon, has cited it with inspiring him to become a drag queen, and to that end he has participated in Death Becomes Her-themed photoshoots,[28] and in 2018 played Madeline in a drag stage show parody called 'Drag Becomes Her'.[29]
Tom Campbell, an executive producer of RuPaul's Drag Race, reflected on the appeal of the movie to gay audiences:
“ | They're fighting for beauty. They're against the system. They're also villains, but we understand their complexity. We root for the undead divas because they're trying to win a game that's rigged against them, and—to borrow an apocryphal quote from Ginger Rogers—they sort of have to do it 'backwards and in high heels.'[27] | ” |
In December 2017, Kristin Chenoweth was announced to be starring in a Broadway musical adaptation of Death Becomes Her.[30]
References[edit]
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- ^Judd Blaise (1992-08-21). 'Special Effects, Acting Bring 'Death' to Life'. Sun Sentinel. Retrieved 2017-12-20.
- ^Death Becomes Her (1992) Vintage Bonus Clip: Meryl's Mom & Special Effects (HD). Youtube. 2016-06-23. Retrieved 2017-12-20.
- ^Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. (2015-07-25). DEATH BECOMES HER Recreating Meryl BTS Special Edition. Youtube. Retrieved 2017-12-20.
- ^Drew Taylor (2013-06-11). '5 Versions of 'Jurassic Park' You Never Saw'. indiewire.com. Retrieved 2017-12-20.
- ^'Depth Becomes Her'. Entertainment Weekly. 2000-03-24. Retrieved 2007-01-25.
- ^'The Ebell of Los Angeles - Filming'. ebellla.org. Retrieved 2017-12-20.
- ^'Madeline and Ernest's Mansion from 'Death Becomes Her''. iamnotastalker.com. 2017-10-13. Retrieved 2017-12-20.
- ^'Movies Filmed at Mount Saint Mary's University - Chalon Campus'. moviemaps.org. Retrieved 2017-12-20.
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- ^Christopher Rudolph (2013-05-17). 'Jinkx Monsoon and Ivy Winters Star in Ricky Middlesworth's 'Death Becomes Her' (PHOTOS)'. Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-06-10.
- ^Ashley Lee (2018-04-19). 'Jinkx Monsoon Talks Spoofing Meryl Streep in 'Drag Becomes Her''. todaytix.com. Retrieved 2018-06-10.
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Goldie Hawn in 1978 | |
Born | November 21, 1945 (age 73) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
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Occupation | Actress, producer, singer |
Years active | 1967–present |
Spouse(s) | Bill Hudson (m. 1976; div. 1982) |
Partner(s) | Kurt Russell (1983–present) |
Children | |
Awards | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture |
Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, producer, and singer.[6] She rose to fame on the NBC sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–70), before going on to receive the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Cactus Flower (1969).
Hawn maintained bankable star status for more than three decades, while appearing in such films as There's a Girl in My Soup (1970), Butterflies Are Free (1972), The Sugarland Express (1974), Shampoo (1975), Foul Play (1978), Seems Like Old Times (1980), and Private Benjamin (1980), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing the title role.
Hawn's later work includes starring roles in the films Overboard (1987), Bird on a Wire (1990), Death Becomes Her (1992), Housesitter (1992), The First Wives Club (1996), TheOut-of-Towners (1999) and The Banger Sisters (2002). After a fifteen-year hiatus from film acting, Hawn made a brief comeback in Snatched (2017). She is the mother of actors Oliver Hudson, Kate Hudson, and Wyatt Russell, and has been in a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since 1983. In 2003, she founded The Hawn Foundation, which helps underprivileged children.
- 2Career
- 3Personal life
- 4Filmography
- 5Discography
- 9External links
Early life[edit]
Hawn was born in Washington, D.C.,[6] the daughter of Laura (née Steinhoff; November 27, 1913 – November 27, 1993), a jewelry shop/dance school owner, and Edward Rutledge Hawn[7][8] (September 28, 1908 – June 7, 1982), a band musician who played at major events in Washington. She was named after her mother's aunt.[9] She has one sister, entertainment publicist Patti Hawn (born March 24, 1938); their brother, Edward Jr. (born February 10, 1937) died as an infant shortly before Patti was conceived.
Her father was a Presbyterian of German and English descent. Her mother was Jewish, the daughter of emigrants from Hungary.[10][11][12][13][14][15] Hawn was raised Jewish.[9][10][16][17] She was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland,[18] and attended Montgomery Blair High School in nearby Silver Spring, Maryland.[19]
Hawn began taking ballet and tap dance lessons at the age of three and danced in the corps de ballet of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo production of The Nutcracker in 1955. She made her stage debut in 1964, playing Juliet in a Virginia Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet.[20]
By 1964, she ran and taught in a ballet school, having dropped out of American University where she was majoring in drama. In 1964, Hawn made her professional dancing debut in a production of Can-Can at the Texas Pavilion of the New York World's Fair. She began working as a professional dancer a year later and appeared as a go-go dancer in New York City[9] and at the Peppermint Box in New Jersey.[18]
Career[edit]
1960s[edit]
Publicity photo for Cactus Flower (1969)
Hawn moved to California to dance in a show at a theater across from Disneyland.[18] Hawn began her acting career as a cast member of the short-lived CBS situation comedy Good Morning, World during the 1967–68 television season, her role being that of the girlfriend of a radio disc jockey, with a stereotypical 'dumb blonde' personality.[9]
Her next role, which brought her to international attention, was as one of the regular cast members on the 1968–1973 sketch comedy show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. On the show, she would often break out into high-pitched giggles in the middle of a joke, and deliver a polished performance a moment after. Noted equally for her chipper attitude as for her bikini and painted body, Hawn was seen as something of a 1960s 'It' girl.[21]
Her Laugh-In persona was parlayed into three popular film appearances in the late 1960s and early 1970s: Cactus Flower, There's a Girl in My Soup, and Butterflies Are Free. Hawn had made her feature film debut in a bit role as a giggling dancer in the 1968 film The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, in which she was billed as 'Goldie Jeanne', but in her first major film role, in Cactus Flower (1969), she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Walter Matthau's suicidal fiancée. That same year she appeared in NBC' The Spring Thing a musical television special hosted by Bobbie Gentry and Noel Harrison. Other guests included were Meredith MacRae, Irwin C. Watson, Rod McKuen, Shirley Bassey, and Harpers Bizarre.[22]
1970s[edit]
With Carl Reiner on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, 1970
After Hawn's Academy Award win, her film career took off. She starred in a string of above average and successful comedies starting with There's a Girl in My Soup (1970), $ (1971), and Butterflies Are Free (1972). She continued proving herself in the dramatic league with the 1974 satirical dramas The Girl from Petrovka and The Sugarland Express, and Shampoo in 1975. She also hosted two television specials: Pure Goldie in 1971 and The Goldie Hawn Special in 1978. The latter was a sort of comeback for Hawn, who had been out of the spotlight for two years since the 1976 release of The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, while she was focusing on her marriage and the birth of her son.
On the special she performed show tunes and comedy bits alongside comic legend George Burns, teen matinee idol Shaun Cassidy, television star John Ritter (during his days on Three's Company), and even the Harlem Globetrotters joined her for a montage. The special later went on to be nominated for a primetime Emmy. Four months later the film Foul Play (with Chevy Chase), was released and became a box office smash, reviving Hawn's film career. The plot centered around an innocent woman in San Francisco who becomes mixed up in an assassination plot.
Hawn's next film, Mario Monicelli's Lovers and Liars (1979), was a box office bomb. In 1972 Hawn recorded and released a solo country LP for Warner Brothers, titled Goldie. It was recorded with the help of Dolly Parton and Buck Owens. AllMusic gives the album a favorable review, calling it a 'sweetly endearing country-tinged middle of the road pop record'.[23]
1980s[edit]
Hawn at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm 1981
Hawn's popularity continued into the 1980s, starting with another primetime variety special alongside actress and singer Liza Minnelli, Goldie and Liza Together (1980), which was nominated for four Emmy Awards. In the same year, Hawn took the lead role in Private Benjamin, a comedy she co-produced with her friend Nancy Meyers, who co-wrote the script. Meyers recalls Hawn's reaction when she first described the idea for the story:
It was like watching the greatest audience I've ever seen. She laughed and then she got real emotional and her eyes would fill up with tears. She loved the image of herself in an Army uniform and she loved what the movie had to say.[24]
Private Benjamin, also stars Eileen Brennan and Armand Assante, and garnered Hawn her second Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actress.[9][25] Hawn's box office success continued with comedies like Seems Like Old Times (1980), written by Neil Simon, Best Friends (1982), written by Valerie Curtin and Barry Levinson, Protocol (1984), co-written by Nancy Meyers, and Wildcats (1986)—Hawn also served as executive producer on the latter two—and the World War II romantic drama Swing Shift (1984).
At the age of thirty-nine, Hawn posed for the cover of Playboy's January 1985 issue, in which she was the subject of the Playboy Interview.[26] Her last film of the 1980s was opposite partner Kurt Russell, for the third time, in the comedy Overboard (1987).
1990s[edit]
In 1990 she starred in the action comedy Bird on a Wire, a critically panned but commercially successful picture that paired Hawn with Mel Gibson. Hawn had mixed success in the early 1990s, with the thriller Deceived (1991), the drama CrissCross and opposite Bruce Willis and Meryl Streep in Death Becomes Her (both 1992). Earlier that year, she starred in Housesitter, a screwball comedy with Steve Martin, which was a commercial success.
Hawn in 1989
Hawn was absent from the screen for four years while caring for her mother who died of cancer in 1994.[9] Hawn made her entry back into film as producer of the satirical comedy Something to Talk About starring Julia Roberts and Dennis Quaid, as well as making her directorial debut in the television film Hope (1997) starring Christine Lahti and Jena Malone.[9]Hawn returned to the screen again in 1996 as the aging, alcoholic actress Elise Elliot in the financially and critically successful The First Wives Club, opposite Bette Midler and Diane Keaton, with whom she covered the Lesley Gore hit 'You Don't Own Me' for the film's soundtrack. Hawn also performed a cover version of the Beatles' song, 'A Hard Day's Night', on George Martin's 1998 album, In My Life.
She continued her tenure in the 1990s with Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You (1996) and reuniting with Steve Martin for the comedy The Out-of-Towners (1999), a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon hit. The film was critically panned and was not successful at the box office.[27][28] In 1997, Hawn, along with her co-stars from The First Wives Club, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler, were recipients of the Women in Film Crystal Awards.[29]
In 1999, she was awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year.[30]
2000s[edit]
In 2001 Hawn was reunited with former co-stars Warren Beatty (her co-star in $ and Shampoo) and Diane Keaton for the comedy Town & Country, a critical and financial fiasco. Budgeted at an estimated US$90 million, the film opened to little notice and grossed only $7 million in its North American theatrical release.[31] In 2002, she starred in The Banger Sisters, opposite Susan Sarandon and Geoffrey Rush, her last live action film for fifteen years. In 2005 Hawn's autobiography, A Lotus Grows in the Mud, was published.
2010s[edit]
In 2013, Hawn guest-starred, along with Gordon Ramsay, in an episode of Phineas and Ferb, in which she provided the voice of neighbor Peggy McGee.[32][33]
In 2017, Hawn returned to the big screen for the first time since 2002, co-starring with Amy Schumer in the comedy Snatched, playing mother and daughter.[34][35][36][37]
Personal life[edit]
Hawn has studied meditation. In a 2012 interview, she stated, 'I don't think of myself as a Buddhist. I was born Jewish, and I consider that my religion.' She also stated, 'It's not the idea of a particular religion that's important; it's the development of a spiritual life.'[38]
Hawn at the Cinema Against AIDS gala in May 2011
Hawn is a supporter of the LGBT community. Speaking on nations such as Nigeria and others which have criminalized gay people, she denounced these laws, stating, 'This is man's inhumanity to man, of the first order.'[39]
Relationships and family[edit]
Hawn's pre-fame boyfriends included actor Mark Goddard and crooner Spiro Venduras.[40] Her first husband was dancer (later director) Gus Trikonis, who appeared as a Shark in West Side Story. They married on May 16, 1969 in Honolulu, Hawaii and separated on April 9, 1973.[41][42] Hawn then dated stuntman Ted Grossman,[43] Swedish actor Bruno Wintzell[43] and Italian actor Franco Nero,[44] but did not file for divorce from Trikonis until New Year's Eve 1975, after becoming engaged to musician Bill Hudson of the Hudson Brothers, whom she met the previous summer on a first-class flight from New York to L.A.[45] Hawn was granted a divorce in June 1976 and married Hudson on July 3, 1976 in Takoma Park, Maryland.[46] They had two children, son Oliver (born September 7, 1976) and daughter Kate (born April 19, 1979). Hudson filed for divorce on August 15, 1980.[47] Hawn's next romances were with French actor Yves Rénier,[48] television star Tom Selleck[49] and Moroccan businessman Victor Drai.[50] The divorce from Hudson was finalized in March 1982.[51]
Hawn has been in a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since Valentine's Day 1983.[52] The couple first met while filming The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band in 1966, but became involved after re-connecting on the set of Swing Shift. They have a son, Wyatt (born July 10, 1986).[53] Hawn is also the de facto stepmother of Russell and Season Hubley's son Boston. In 2000 and again in 2004, news outlets reported that Hawn and Russell were on the verge of breaking up.[54][55][56][57] During the alleged separations, Hawn was linked to newsman Charles Glass and Pakistani cricketer and politician Imran Khan.[58][59] On the May 11, 2017 episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Hawn quasi-confirmed longstanding rumors–which she previously had denied[60]–of an affair with Warren Beatty during the filming of their 1971 heist movie Dollars.[61] Hawn and Russell, who celebrated 35 years together in 2018, own homes in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada;[1]Snowmass Village, Colorado;[2]Manhattan, New York;[3]Brentwood[4] and Palm Desert, California.[5]
The Hawn Foundation[edit]
In 2003 Hawn founded the Hawn Foundation, a non-profit organization which provides youth education programs intended to improve academic performance through 'life-enhancing strategies for well-being'.[62][63] The Hawn Foundation has supported research studies conducted by external researchers to evaluate the effectiveness of its educational program for children, called MindUP.[64]
Filmography[edit]
Television[edit]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1967–68 | Good Morning, World | Sandy Kramer | Season 1 (20 episodes) |
1968–70 | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Goldie (regular performer) | Seasons 1–3 (64 episodes) |
1997 | Space Ghost Coast to Coast | Herself | Episode: 'Pavement' |
2013 | Phineas and Ferb | Peggy McGee (voice) | Episode: 'Thanks But No Thanks' |
Film[edit]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1968 | The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band | Giggly Girl | Credited as 'Goldie Jeanne' |
1969 | The Sidehackers | Spectator | Uncredited role;[citation needed] alternatively titled Five the Hard Way |
1969 | Cactus Flower | Toni Simmons | |
1970 | There's a Girl in My Soup | Marion | |
1971 | $ | Dawn Divine | Also known as Dollars, and in the UK as The Heist |
1972 | Butterflies Are Free | Jill Tanner | |
1974 | The Sugarland Express | Lou Jean Poplin | |
1974 | The Girl from Petrovka | Oktyabrina | |
1975 | Shampoo | Jill Haynes | |
1976 | The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox | Amanda Quaid/Duchess Swansbury | |
1978 | Foul Play | Gloria Mundy | |
1979 | Lovers and Liars | Anita | Originally titled Viaggio con Anita |
1980 | Private Benjamin | Pvt. Judy Benjamin | |
1980 | Seems Like Old Times | Glenda Gardenia Parks | |
1982 | Best Friends | Paula McCullen | |
1984 | Swing Shift | Kay Walsh | |
1984 | Protocol | Sunny Davis | |
1986 | Wildcats | Molly McGrath | |
1987 | Overboard | Joanna Stayton / Annie Proffitt | |
1990 | Bird on a Wire | Marianne Graves | |
1991 | Deceived | Adrienne Saunders | |
1992 | CrissCross | Tracy Cross | |
1992 | Housesitter | Gwen Duncle / Buckley / Phillips | |
1992 | Death Becomes Her | Helen Sharp | |
1996 | The First Wives Club | Elise Elliot | |
1996 | Everyone Says I Love You | Steffi Dandridge | |
1999 | The Out-of-Towners | Nancy Clark | |
2001 | Town & Country | Mona Morris | |
2002 | The Banger Sisters | Suzette | |
2017 | Snatched | Linda Middleton | |
2017 | SPF-18 | Narrator | |
2018 | The Christmas Chronicles | Mrs. Claus | Cameo |
- Additional credits
- Private Benjamin (1980) (additionally served as executive producer)
- Protocol (1984) (additionally served as executive producer)
- Wildcats (1986) (additionally served as executive producer)
- My Blue Heaven (1990) (executive producer)
- Something to Talk About (1995) (executive producer)
- Hope (1997 TV movie) (director and executive producer)
- When Billie Beat Bobby (2001 TV movie) (executive producer)
- The Matthew Shepard Story (2002) (executive producer)
- Hot Flash Havoc (2012 documentary) (narrator)
Discography[edit]
Albums[edit]
- 1972, Goldie, Reprise Records: MS 2061
Singles[edit]
- 1972, 'Pitta Patta', Reprise Records: REP 1126 (directed by Van Dyke Parks)
- 1997, 'You Don't Own Me', Columbia Records: XPCD842 (with Bette Midler and Diane Keaton)
Awards and nominations[edit]
Year | Nominated work | Association | Category | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1969 | Cactus Flower | Academy Awards | Best Supporting Actress[65] | Won |
Golden Globe Awards | Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture[66] | Won | ||
1970 | Cactus Flower / There's a Girl in My Soup | BAFTA Awards | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated |
1972 | Butterflies Are Free | Golden Globe Awards | Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy[66] | Nominated |
1975 | Shampoo | Golden Globe Awards[66] | Nominated | |
1976 | The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox | Golden Globe Awards[66] | Nominated | |
1978 | Foul Play | Golden Globe Awards[66] | Nominated | |
1980 | Private Benjamin | Academy Awards | Best Actress[67] | Nominated |
Golden Globe Awards | Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy[66] | Nominated | ||
National Society of Film Critics | Best Actress | Nominated | ||
New York Film Critics | Best Actress | Nominated | ||
1982 | Best Friends | Golden Globe Awards | Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy[66] | Nominated |
1996 | The First Wives Club | National Board of Review | Best Cast | Won |
Everyone Says I Love You | Satellite Awards | Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | Nominated | |
2002 | The Banger Sisters | Golden Globe Awards | Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy[66] | Nominated |
2017 | — (all film contributions) | Hollywood Walk of Fame | Motion Pictures[68] | Inducted |
Further reading[edit]
- Hawn, Goldie (2005). A Lotus Grows in the Mud. G. P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN0399152857.
- Wilson, Christopher (1999). Absolutely... Goldie: A Biography. Harper Collins. ISBN0002570181.
- Shapiro, Marc (1998). Pure Goldie: The Life and Career of Goldie Hawn. Citadel. ISBN1559724676.
References[edit]
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- ^ abMeeks, Eric G. (2012). Palm Springs Celebrity Homes: Little Tuscany, Racquet Club, Racquet Club Estates and Desert Park Estates Neighborhoods(Kindle)
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External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Goldie Hawn. |
- Goldie Hawn on IMDb
- Goldie Hawn at the TCM Movie Database
- Goldie Hawn at discogs.com
- Goldie Hawn interview on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs, September 23, 2012
Videos[edit]
- 'The Films of Goldie Hawn' on YouTube, movie clips
- 'Hawn: From 'Cactus Flower' to 'Lotus'USA Today (May 4, 2005)
- 'Goldie Hawn A Wallflower?' .60 Minutes. CBS News (May 1, 2005)
- 'Goldie Hawn's '10 Mindful Minutes' for Children'. ABC News. September 9, 2011.
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