Geek Girl #1 in actionSixteen Candles 1984. was voted as #86 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007. Afterwards, she was a series regular on Benson, appeared in two Police Academy sequels, and acted in the Hughes-scripted comedies Home Alone and Dennis the Menace. while sister Joan Cusack appears as Geek Girl #1. Chicago sibling actors John and Joan Cusack appear in this together; as well as Say Anything and Broadcast News. Twice actor Max Showalter has portrayed a character with the surname Baker. Haviland Morris didn't want to do the shower scene, because the point was that she had bigger breasts than Sam and Randy, which she didn't. Watanabe went on to play memorable comic roles in Volunteers, Gung Ho, and Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Even a late-teen growth spurt that had him playing jocks in Johnny Be Good and Edward Scissorhands couldnt erase his geek cred. Montrose is a popular street in Chicago, where John Hughes is from. . "He really did. When the two co-starred in the movie Fresh Horses, Mortensen told Ringwald that he always thought he didnt get the job because of his kissing. Sixteen Candles is a 1984 American coming-of-age comedy film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, and Anthony Michael Hall. Haviland Morris, who played Jake's girlfriend Caroline, also left the businesssort of. We've got Long Duk Dong. Jim Carrey auditioned for the role of Ted "The Geek". Jake Ryans Porsche had the plate number 21850, for John Hughes birthday of February 18, 1950. But when Molly Ringwald saw it, she asked to wear it. She went on to appear in the movies Raw Deal and The Handmaids Tale and on TV in Law & Order and the 2009 HBO movie Taking Chance. At the age of nine, he attended 'Piven Theatre Workshop.'. In Weird Science (1985), Kapelos can be seen at the table in the bar. He encourages Ted to drive her home saying "she's so blitzed she won't know the difference." Michael Schoeffling was so shy during his audition, it almost cost him the job. With John as Farmer Teds buddy Bryce and Joan as Geek Girl #1, a.k.a. Both Hall and Ringwald, as well as others, have spoken extensively about this in interviews. She played the girl in the neck brace. Though she does still act on occasion, she works as a real estate agent in New York City. Hughes may have been a couple of decades past his high school years when he wrote the movie, but he managed to accurately capture the teen experience. Before she starred as Samantha's snotty sister Ginny in Sixteen Candles, Blanche Baker won a Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the television mini-series Holocaust in 1978, playing alongside such heavy weights as Meryl Streep and Joseph Bottoms. Some of the students in the big party scene are wearing Niles East Trojans jackets and shirts. On September 18, 2016, when television writer Alan Yang won an Emmy for Master of None (2015), he bemoaned the historical dearth and negativity of Asian-American representation on television and in movies, and in his acceptance speech, he specifically named "Long Duk Dong" as a low point in that history: "There's seventeen million Asian-Americans in this country, and seventeen million Italian-Americans. Now 53, hes been absent from the screen for 23 years, so we never had to watch Jake Ryan get old. Hall played Ted, also known as the school nerd and "Farmer Ted." Elsewhere, Newhart, and ER. . ''He flipped through and saw one he liked and put it on his bulletin board." The Cusacks are the only teens really from the Chicago suburbs, where the movie is set, in this movie. The license plate number on Jake's car "21850" was John Hughes' birth date - February 18, 1950. Write by: . And Hall and Ringwald genuinely liked him, he was like their crazy, funny older brother, who also happened to be a Hollywood power player who had vaunted them both to the top of the A-List. Her recurring characters on SNL included Salena, a socially inept girl who tries to ask out her boyfriend, Biff (played by Jon Lovitz), who is also socially inept. Of the four actors who portrayed the grandparents, Carole Cook is the longest lived at 98 (she died in 2023 only three days shy of 99). Brother and sister John Cusack and Joan Cusack appeared in this movie. John Hughes grew up in Michigan and Illinois, and set most of his movies (including this one) in the suburbs around Chicago. Her last film was Pauly Shores Jury Duty in 1995. Gedde Watanabe says the gong sound effect wasn't included in the script: "I think the gong was something they added. Now a music producer, the 48-year-old Curtis will be seen on screen in Body High, a comedy due for release this spring. How accurate is ActorAgeCheck?Our database is powered by the most powerful people on the planet. Dewey's whole ambition in life was to be a part of rock band and once he was kicked of the group he'd been a part of for a while he was left without . He also voiced the character of Sarge in Cars, Cars 2 and Cars 3. During this period, the early and mid eighties, when John Hughes was at the height of his powers, Hughes, Hall and Ringwald were essentially in a clique together (strange as that was, since Hall and Ringwald were teenagers, and Hughes was in his 30s). The 90-year-olds last acting appearance was a 2006 guest spot on Greys Anatomy. While he was scared that he would be fired for the deception, Hughes simply laughed. The Reverend is played by Brian Doyle-Murray, Bill Murrays older brother. At the beginning of the film, Molly Ringwald is filling out a questionnaire. Sixteen Candles was the first in John Hughes' series of iconic 1980s teen movies which depicted the unfairness of having to go through puberty while attempting to graduate high school with a. During the dance scene, John Cusack is wearing a WLS t-shirt. Of all the films Molly Ringwald made with John Hughes, she said, "I had the most fun on Sixteen Candles.". The film had a large cast . Hughes clearly wanted to be a teenager again, and maybe was reliving this through Hall and Ringwald. Geek Girl From Sixteen Candles - Finishing The Paper Doll. Wantanabe played Long Duk Dong, a Chinese foreign exchange student who stays with the Bakers as they prepare for Ginny's wedding. Get the full list of cast and characters in the movie Sixteen Candles. She took a 14-year absence to raise a family and get a stockbrokers license, but she returned to TV in recent years with guest spots on Criminal Minds (2011) and American Horror Story (also 2011). He quit in 1991 to start a handcrafted furniture business. Where: Hyatt Regency Orlando, 9801 International Drive, Orlando. He is also known for voicing the character of Ling in the animated film Mulan (1998) and its sequel, Mulan II (2004). However, the movie actually featured an extensive selection of over thirty songs. John Hughes agreed that it was creepy, and changed the line. In an article published in Salon, Amy Benfer considers whether the film directly condones date rape. After writing the screenplays for Mr. The first being Class (1983). The same moving shot of the exterior of the high school was used for the beginning of this movie, as well as the end of Weird Science (1985). Reportedly John Hughes was hurt and never got over the grudge. 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Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall weren't the only stars to have their breakout roles in "Sixteen Candles." The film also features two future stars in minor roles, John Cusack and his. Jake's car is a 1983 Porsche 944 Automatic. The dress that Sam wears to the school dance was supposed to be worn by Liane Curtis (who played Randy). When the Cusacks. He had already worked with Anthony Michael Hall; since he was the screenwriter for Vacation the year before Hughes was planning for Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald and him to team up again in both Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller, and have the three of them keep making movies like that, almost like Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland made all those Andy Hardy teen pictures back in the 40s, one after the other, playing different characters and in different movies and with the same actors. Now 57, she stars as a vengeful housewife in the thriller Jersey Justice, debuting on DVD this month. Exactly a couple years earlier in the May 1, 1982 Love Boat episode April In Boston/Saving Grace/Breaks of Life, he portrayed a character named Herman Baker. How old is John Cusack in the movie Sixteen Candles? "Sixteen Candles" was one of John Cusack's first films. In the coming years, he appeared in various movies which include Stand by Me, Hot Pursuit, Eight Men Out, The Player . Similarly, in The Breakfast Club, Anthony Michael Hall's mother, Mercedes Hall, and his little sister, appear as his mother and sister in the movie. Ringwald insisted. . It remains her highest profile to date, though she also appeared in such films as Critters 2: The Main Course, Girlfriend From Hell, Queens Logic, and Benny & Joon, as well as TV guest spots on such shows as ER and Sons of Anarchy. She went on to star on the ill-fated 1985-86 season of Saturday Night Live (along with Anthony Michael Hall) before moving on to acclaimed comic roles in such films as Broadcast News, Working Girl (which earned her an Oscar nomination), Addams Family Values, Grosse Pointe Blank (a collaboration with John), In & Out (another Oscar-nominated role), Runaway Bride, Toy Story 2 (and 3), School of Rock, and Chicken Little. After the two break up, she ends up spending the night with Ted. The Bakers six-bedroom brick house, in northwestern Evanston, Illinois, was sold for $1,250,000 in 2006. "Wease" Deborah Pollack - Marlene, aka "Lumberjack" Joan Cusack - Geek Girl #1; Brian Doyle-Murray - Reverend at Wedding; Jami Gertz - Robin; John Kapelos . Between the Michael's and the John's in the cast, you pretty much have everyone covered! After a year, he got two movies Sixteen Candles and 'Grandview, U.S.A.' in 1984. Dick Biondi: Chicago radio legend is heard on the radio (uncredited) in the opening bedroom scene where Molly Ringwald is looking in her mirror. sixteen candles 64 GIFs. A number of interior/exterior shots involving the high school (in real life, Niles East, Skokie, Il) were also used in Risky Business (1983) which included interior scenes in the school's hallways, a classroom, the wrestling workout area, plus its main outdoor stairway entrance; the same one Joel Goodson (Tom Cruise) uses during his nightmare of being late to school to take an exam. "Sixteen candles make a lovely light, but not as bright as your eyes tonight!". When Ted is walking up the aisle of the bus to sit next to Samantha, the theme from Dragnet (1951) plays. Cusack had a brief appearance in the film as Bryce, a nerdy high school student who's friends with Ted. She said Hughes held a grudge against them for rejecting him, and effectively stopped making teen movies all together. was more commercial, and therefore should be made first. Naturally. She fared better on TV, in projects from the Stephen King mini-series The Stand to her mom/grandma role on ABC Familys The Secret Life of the American Teenager. While we're on the topic of the Cusacks,. Both Blanche Baker, (Ginny Baker, Samantha's sister) and Justin Henry, (Mike Henry, her brother), had just come off of starring in hit shows with Merryl Streep; Baker appearing in 1978s critically acclaimed Holocaust with Streep, and Henry starring in the Oscar Winning 1979 blockbuster Kramer vs Kramer with her. Writer/director John Hughes, plus actors John Cusack and John Kapelos all have the same first names. Well, uh, let's see, he was wearing a red argyle sweater, and tan trousers, and red shoes. Now 48, shes a star of the current ABC comedy The Neighbors. The song playing in the background, while Rudy's father explains his "business activities" to the Bakers, is the Love Theme from The Godfather (1972). Morris retired from acting in 2014 and currently works in real estate. Write by: Born Gary Watanabe, the 28-year-old actor was so convincing in his audition (and later, on screen) in the role of hard-partying Chinese exchange student Long Duk Dong that few observers realized he was born and raised in Utah. While he doesnt know Sam at the beginning of the film, he eventually develops a crush on her. The movie's costume designer begged Molly Ringwald not to wear the hat she wore in the beginning of the movie. Here are 16 things you might not know about the film, which was released 32 years ago todaymaking it officially twice as old as its protagonist. Joan Cusack Geek Girl #1 . It was bracing a few years back, at least for those of us of a certain age, to see Molly Ringwald cast as a grandmother on TVs The Secret Life of the American Teenager. In actuality, Haviland Morris was 25 years old during filming. He went on to act in the films Sylvester, Vision Quest, Let's Get Harry, Belizaire the Cajun, Longtime Companion, Slaves of New York and Mermaids. Molly Ringwald was interested in doing a sequel. Anthony Michael Hall co-starred in this movie with Joan Cusack. Sep 5, 2018 - Explore Maizie Cole's board "Sixteen Candles" on Pinterest. Cusack began working in the early 1980s as side characters in teen comedy films, the most notable of which being a small role in John Hughes' Sixteen Candles. It was especially common in the American Midwest, where many such immigrants and their descendants settled after arriving in the United States. There are some cut scenes where Long Duk Dong and his Sexy Girlfriend go to a drive-in restaurant and cause a bit of trouble. She was married to actor, director, producer and writer Peter Masterson, who died in 2018. But a bunch of her problems would be solved if she wished for what every sixteen-year-old needs: some self-confidence. His Sixteen Candles role as geek sidekick Bryce was only 17-year-old Cusack's second film role, but by the following year, he'd graduated to lead in such films as The Sure Thing and Better. Joan is the geeky girl seen on the bus, and having trouble sipping water from a drinking fountain, while wearing a neck brace. Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall dated briefly in real life. Paul Dooley, and Glynn Carlin, who play Molly'/Sam's parents in the movie, the Bakers, both convinced John Hughes to add scenes of parental support so that they would not look so cartoonish in the movie. "Bohunk" is a disparaging slur against immigrants from Eastern Europe, especially Hungary. Casie's look: I am Joan Cusack's character. Joan Cusack was in it too. Filmed at Niles East High School. John will star in 2019's "Never Grow Old" and "Distorted." . Even in a randy teen comedy, you would never see two sympathetic male characters conspiring to take advantage of a drunk chick these days.". Unlike his co-stars, Schoeffling did not remain in the world of acting for long. Wantanabe has gone on to appear in the films Gung Ho, Vamp, Perfect Alibi, Mulan, Mulan II, Two for the Money, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Parental Guidance and 47 Ronin. So for a year or two, 1984-1985, during the filming of Sixteen Candles , Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink and Weird Science, the three of them would hang out, go to restaurants and clubs and concerts and were friends. Niles East is in Skokie, Illinois, and was closed for over ten years when the filming started. Even worse, some total dork ( Anthony Michael Hall) keeps propositioning her with sophomoric innuendo when she really craves romantic attention from high-school hunk Jake ( Michael Schoeffling ). Now 58, hes continued to make an impression in such recent films as Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Parental Guidance, and his most recent work, last years 47 Ronin. Magazines, Digital "Sixteen Candles" marked the second of 10 times that Joan Cusack . He followed that up with such indelible films as The Grifters, Bullets Over Broadway, Grosse Pointe Blank, Being John Malkovich, High Fidelity, and 2012. Bird had a long career in vaudeville and theater before enjoying her film breakthrough as a comic actress in her sixties in The Odd Couple. Michael Schoeffling, Anthony Michael Hall, Paul Dooley, Carlin Glynn, Haviland Morris, Blanche Baker, Gedde Wantanabe and John Cusack round out the cast. By the end of its run, it grossed $23,686,027 against a budget of $6.5 million. Although they play rivals for Samantha's affection, Schoeffling is about 10 years older than Hall is. Additionally, she has acted in Broadway productions of Arcadia, Tartuffe: Born Again and Ring Round the Moon. The following morning, Caroline wakes up with no recollection of the night before. Chaos ensues when she gets her period on the day of the ceremony. But Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall had other plans. She went on to a recurring role on the soap Santa Barbara and other TV guest roles on such shows as St. For his first performance, as Dustin Hoffmans son in Kramer vs. Kramer, seven-year-old Henry became the youngest actor ever nominated for an Oscar. (That's like 4 out of the six lead characters!). The film pre-dates the PG-13 rating by several months which is the rating the film would have likely gotten had it existed when it was released. When Sam sees her grandparents for the first time, the theme song from The Twilight Zone (1959) is playing. who was born on October 11, 1962, is 59 years old today, January 3rd, 2022. Morris portrayed Caroline, the most popular girl at school and Jake's girlfriend. Joan Cusack was born October 11, 1962, in New York City. You have reached your limit of free articles. They didn't have enough money to air condition the gym, so it was over one hundred degrees during filming. It was closed in 1980, just a few years before filming began. John Cusack began his career in the 1983 movie Class in which he played the role of Roscoe Maibaum. But since then many people have put this in this same category as Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). By most accounts, he moved to Virginia with his wife and kids, where he works as a carpenter. He had penned the scripts for National Lampoon's Class Reunion [1982], Mr. But Hughes insisted there would be more layers to this character, at which point he wrote a scene which Jim apologizes to Sam for forgetting her birthday and also consoles her about the situation with Jake. Other music posters in Samantha's house include Culture Club, Stray Cats (over her bed), and Sammy Hagar. He showed off a more dramatic side during his six-year stint as a nurse on ER. After college, he seldom acted but remained in showbiz, as the founder of the short-life Slamdunk film festival (1998-2003) and as an executive at streaming video site Veoh. . At the time of the release of Sixteen Candles, Roger Ebert defended Gedde Watanabe's performance as Long Duk Dong, writing that Gedde Watanabe "elevates his role from a potentially offensive stereotype to high comedy". When Ginny, Sam's sister, sits down in the church scene, she does so next to Agnes Belushi, mother of John Belushi and Jim Belushi. She's the daughter of famous actress Carol Baker; an actress who was often compared to Marylin Monroe, and starred in many movies in the 1950s and 1960s like How The West Was Won, Baby Doll and Giant. Her most recent appearance was as a mystery woman during the 2012 series finale of Desperate Housewives. Michael Schoeffling was 23 years old when the movie was made, Haviland Morris was 24, Gedde Watanabe was 28, and Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall were both 15. In this movie, Kapelos appeared as Sam's future brother-in-law. Hughes agreed, and added the scene where Brenda tearfully apologizes to Samantha (Molly Ringwald). Haviland Morris, after playing Caroline Moffett in this movie, would go along to play Karen Pruitt in Home Alone 3, mother of the her Alex Pruitt. Dooley has guest starred on a number of television shows including The Golden Girls, ALF, The Wonder Years, Chicago Hope, My So-Called Life, Grace Under Fire, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, ER, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ally McBeal, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Parenthood, The Good Doctor and The Kids Are Alright. Read on to see what the cast of Sixteen Candles has been up to since the film's debut. Gedde Watanabe's accent isn't real. Anyway, the two have been in a handful of movies together and a lot of times it seems as though they've been on opposite ends of the film, bound only to be in . Ringwald wrote. Dooley said it's typical if you turn down a role, you get offered more money but turned it down again, due to the character's development. For what its worth, Molly Ringwalds birthday is also February 18th. Eventually, he quit acting and turned to building furniture. because an almost 24-year-old Justin Henry played Ringwald's love interest, which . They also appear together in Grosse Pointe Blank, High Fidelity, and The Cradle Will Rock. It was unknown at the time of the announcement, whether any of the original cast members would be involved with the project, but that turned out to be unimportant, since the announced new film was never made. The "I" and the "A", at the end of the word, are in the wrong order. Based on his performance inVacation, Hughes felt that Hall would be perfect for The Geek/Farmer Ted character, so he wrote the role specifically for the young actor. Cusack, along with his sister Joan (who plays the nerdy girl in a neck brace), grew up in Evanston, Illinois, only miles from where the movie was shot. In this movie (Sixteen Candles), he portrayed Grandpa Fred Baker. The German title of the film, "Das darf man nur als Erwachsener", translates to "One may do that only as an adult". Despite not having a large role in the film, Justin Henry (Mike Baker) is second-billed in the end credits, and among one of the top-billed actors in advertisements and posters. The following year she began a short tenure as a cast member on Saturday Night Live ( SNL ) alongside the likes of Sixteen Candles co-star Anthony Michael Hall and Robert Downey Jr. Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 America's Greatest Music in the Movies for the song "If You Were Here.". But many felt the magic was gone, that without his teen muses Hall and Ringwald, and without the comfort of the genre he created, Hughes' spirit and creativity sort of died, and the movies he made after were never quite the same. When they tried shooting the scene with a real cake, it would melt over the long takes.
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