Paradise - Phoebe Cates - 1982

Paradise - Phoebe Cates - 1982

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Phoebe Cates: Biografia | Biography

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Phoebe Belle Cates (New York, 16 luglio 1963) è un'attrice statunitense. Godette di un'improvvisa popolarità nel 1982 grazie al film culto Fuori di testa, in particolar modo grazie alla scena in cui rimaneva a seno nudo. All'epoca del film l'attrice aveva solo 19 anni, e in seguito dichiarò di essersi divertita molto a girare quella scena.

Nello stesso periodo lavorò a un altro film, Paradise, che seguiva di due anni Laguna blu, al quale era palesemente ispirato. Per contro, rispetto alla morigerata Brooke Shields di Laguna Blu, Phoebe Cates mostrava abbondantemente le proprie nudità e con ciò riscosse un enorme successo. 

Nelle scene più spinte, però, l'attrice venne sostituita da una controfigura. Nel film Paradise, la Cates interpretò anche il tema musicale principale, nella sua prima prova da cantante.

In seguito la Cates interpretò il ruolo della protagonista nei film Gremlins e Gremlins 2, e altre commedie destinate a un pubblico adolescenziale, ma che non ottennero il successo dei suoi precedenti lavori. 

Venne scelta anche per recitare nel ruolo della figlia di Steve Martin nel rifacimento Il padre della sposa del 1991, ma fu costretta a rinunciare alla parte perché in dolce attesa.

Nel 1989 infatti la Cates aveva sposato l'attore premio Oscar Kevin Kline, a cui ha dato tre figli: Owen nato appunto nel 1991, Greta nel 1994 e Belle nel 2005. I due sposi lavoreranno insieme nel film Princess Caraboo del 1994. 

Owen e Greta sono comparsi anche nel film più recente dell'attrice Anniversary Party del 2001: è la storia semi-biografica di un'attrice ritiratasi per poter essere mamma a tempo pieno. Nel film, diretto da Alan Cumming, recita anche Jennifer Jason Leigh, migliore amica della Cates da diversi anni.

Nel 2005, Phoebe Cates ha aperto una boutique dal nome Blue Tree sulla Madison Avenue a New York.

Source: Wikipedia

Phoebe Cates Kline (born Phoebe Belle Cates; July 16, 1963), better known as Phoebe Cates, is an American film actress, model, and entrepreneur. She is known for her roles in several 1980s films, most notably Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Gremlins. Cates was born Phoebe Belle Cates in 

New York City, to a family of television and Broadway production insiders. She is the daughter of Lily and Joseph Cates (originally "Joseph Katz"),[1] who was a major Broadway producer and a pioneering figure in television, who helped create The $64,000 Question. Her late uncle, 

Gilbert Cates, produced numerous television specials, often in partnership with Cates' father, and several annual Academy Awards shows. Her paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother were Russian Jews, and her maternal grandfather was Chinese Filipino. Cates' mother was born in Shanghai, China.

Cates attended the Professional Children's School and the Juilliard School. When she was ten, she wanted to become a dancer. She eventually got a scholarship to the School of American Ballet, but after suffering a serious knee injury at age 15, she gave up her dancing career. 

She next began a career as a professional model, which was short-lived, although successful. Cates, however, did not like the industry: "It was just the same thing, over and over. After a while I did it solely for the money. After ending her modeling career, Cates decided to begin acting. Although her 

father was an actor as well, he was not enthusiastic about his daughter's new acting career. Cates's acting debut was in Paradise (filmed March 22, 1981 - May 6, 1981 and released May 1982), a role she won after replying to a casting call in New York. At age 17 she played the role of Sarah and did 

several full nude scenes in the movie, which had a plot very similar to The Blue Lagoon, but was situated in a desert rather than on an island. In a 1982 interview, she recalled having trouble with the change of career, because as a model, she had to be conscious of the camera, whereas in front of the 

movie camera, she could not. Cates later regretted being in the movie and said: "What I learned was never to do a movie like that again." According to her co-star Willie Aames, "she will have nothing to do with the film. She's really upset about it. She won't do any promotion with me."

Later in 1982, Cates starred in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which features what Rolling Stone Magazine described as "the most memorable bikini-drop in cinema history." She was quoted as saying that she had the most fun in filming that movie. The following year, she was in the sex 

comedy Private School, which co-starred Matthew Modine and Betsy Russell, and for which she sang on two songs of the film's soundtrack.

Cates's later film roles were more modest and largely oriented toward younger audiences, such as the two Gremlins films and the 1991 film Drop Dead Fred. Her face graced the covers of teen magazines such as Seventeen, Tiger Beat, Teen Beat, and others. In 1984, she starred in the TV mini-series 

Lace, based on a novel which Shirley Conran had written. She played the role of Lili "to get away from a sameness in her movie portrayals." During her audition, she so impressed the writer that he wanted to hire her there and then. Cates struggled with the portrayal of a bitter movie star because, 

despite her character's vicious persona, she intended for the audience to sympathize with her.[16] She did not read Conran's novel, on which the movie was based, because she did not want to have a "fixed image."[16] Her line in the film, "Which one of you bitches is my mother?", was named the greatest line in television history by TV Guide in 1993.

In 1985, Cates appeared Off-Broadway in Rich Relations, written by David Henry Hwang of the Second Stage Theatre. In 1994, she starred in the fact-based romantic comedy-drama Princess Caraboo.

Cates retired from acting in 1994 in order to raise her children. She returned to acting in 2001 for one film, The Anniversary Party, as a favor to her best friend, and former Fast Times At Ridgemont High cast-mate, Jennifer Jason Leigh, who directed the film.