| | | | Born August 9, 1957 Melanie Griffith can probably tell you stories about the adolescent anxieties of growing up with a really hot mom. Her mother is Tippi Hedren, from Hitchcock's MARNIE and THE BIRDS. Few actresses got off to a faster, wilder start than Griffith. (Maybe Drew Barrymore?) She met Don Johnson on the set of her mom's movie THE HARRAD EXPERIMENT. She was 15, he was 22 and divorced, but Tippi Hedren seems to have had a very liberal attitude about these things, and allowed Melanie to move in with Don. The moment she turned 18 she became the go-to actress for precocious wild-girl roles and did a spectacular Playboy lay-out, but by 20 her drug use was so bad nobody would hire her. Fortunately for world cinema, she got cleaned up and became a star, beginning with her outrageous role as pornstar Holly Body in Brian de Palma's BODY DOUBLE, and cemented by Jonathan Demme's SOMETHING WILD. Over the years she became a decent actress; I love her in ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE. |
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