Pfandom: Cool Rider and a Pink (Leading) Lady
Monday, March 27, 2017 at 9:00PM 
on the set of Grease 2, her first lead roleP F A N D O M
Michelle Pfeiffer Retrospective. Episode 8
by Nathaniel R
We've mostly focused on Michelle Pfeiffer's acting in our Pfandom retrospective. We're sure the star who has described herself as "extremely private" would like it that way, but this would be the appropriate time for a brief bit of personal context.
Though the young actress had been working nonstop since the late 70s in television roles and a few features, she'd been struggling offscreen. She was impatient with the way her career was developing. She'd also become involved with a cult, an experience she's always been cagey about in interviews. She had given them too much of her money and was eating strangely at their insistence. In 1981, she took back control of her life.
At the Grease 2 premiere in NYC with her new husband Peter Horton and producer Allan Carr
Two marriages and two divorces (of sorts): in her personal life she fell in love with fellow up-and-coming actor Peter Horton (who would later become a TV star on thirtysomething), and broke free from the cult; in her professional life she dumped her first agent to sign with the much more powerful William Morris Agency. The shakeup had an immediate effect on her career...
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