I didn't know that Morgan Fairchild used to be an A-list celebrity

Where is she, again?

She was never A-List. No way in hell. Being in the audience at the Oscars doesn’t automatically make you A-List. She just fucked the right member of the Academy to get an invitation that night.

Or she was someone’s plus one

She was seat filling for Kramer's seat filling while he took a leak.

I always thought Fairchild was a lesbian.

She’s a looney conservative, isn’t she?

Morgan Fairchild is very liberal. She was A-list in the 80s because she led pro-choice Hollywood political groups.

She's a proud progressive and very politically involved.

Fairchild could only dream of having the career heat that Daphne Zuniga enjoyed

If I recall correctly she also helped raise a lot - I mean a lot of money with aids. She has a science background and was really passionate about understanding the epidemiology and how to find a cure.

Her character on Falcon Crest was A List.

That's nice to hear R8. Who's that lady in your photo?

Must be that other washed up child actesss who is a looney - Susan Somebody who called herself Morgan Brittany

I don't know if Morgan was ever A-list, but I always found her likable and easy to watch on screen. Seems like a good person, too.

She was dating politician John Kerry for a hot minute.

Yes, Morgan Brittany—Morgan Fairchild's co-star in the iconic TV movie [italic]The Initiation of Sarah[/italic]—is the Morgan who's a wingnut.

She did that one crappy theatrical film The Seduction, hoping it would launch her into films around this time. It’s not unusual for up and coming actors, even though a lot of them don’t succeed, to appear at the Oscars.

Can anyone identify the gorgeous actor she's seated next to at the Oscars? He looks very familiar, but I can recall his name.

Is that Margot Kidder seated close to Barry Diller at the 2:33 mark?

More than likely it was on NBC and she was on Flamingo Road at the time. Most networks will get their stars seats at award shows.

Lol they need to get Bette to present again at the Oscars, but there’s no way she could top this in 1982.

R5 She's bisexual leaning towards men. She is much brighter than her acting suggests.

I really did love The Seduction. It was such wonderful trash. She didn't have much to do, but look beautiful and scared, but she did it well.

I've always disliked her since I saw her in "The Initiation of Sarah" as a little kid. She was pure evil in that movie.

I miss all those cheesy occult movies from the 1970-80s.

She used to come into my restaurant. Had no idea who she was. But she was lovely. that's all I got.

She was never A list, she was a soap actress, first on daytime and then she rode the primetime soap opera boom of the late 70s/early 80s, first as the original Jenna Wade on Dallas (take that Priscilla Presley!) and then on other nighttime soaps Flamingo Road, Paper Dolls and her most famous one as Jordan on Falcon Crest

She went back to daytime soaps in the 90s with the lead in ABC Daytime's short lived The City and as recently as 2017 as Anjelica Deveraux on Days of Our Lives

Fairchild also dated Detroit Tigers hunk (later Dodgers world series hero) Kirk Gibson for a hot minute.

Didn't she state once that she rarely got dates, because men were too scared to approach her or thought she was already spoken for? I'd believe it. She was gorgeous in her prime.

Loved her recurring character as Cybil's rival actress

Wonder why Joanna Pettit disappeared. She was attractive & a decent actress. I’m thinking maybe “the look” had changed. She had that late 60s Upper class faux hippie look - like the guests at Guy & Ro Woodhouse’s Under-60 party. Upper classes adopting cool hippy clothes & hair while remaining snobbishly above it all & would’ve held their noses in the Haight.

Pettet

Morgan was likeable and had that old fashioned Hollywood glamor on TOP of her prettiness. Yes her makeup was applied with heavy hand, and she was always Playboy-bunny-adjacent but there's no denying she had a glam impact overall. Also a good person.

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I guess you haven't seen mention of Pettet in the Alan Bates threads...

Vintage Morgan Fairchild shown on the day before she got her first taste of dick, and the rest is history.....

I know her as Chandler Bing’s wealthy writer mom on FRIENDS

We had a Joanna Pettet thread awhile back. I think she’s out of sight...

Are you really this stupid, OP?

The OP has to be a joke.

Morgan Fairchild went from cavorting with A-listers at the Oscars to having orders barked at her by Anne Burrell on Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition.

Hollywood can be a cruel place.

R39 It’s one of the toughest businesses in the world. If you don’t have thick skin it destroys you. One day they’re on top, but the fall can happen overnight, and everyone abandons them once the fame and money dries up.

r13 Morgan Brittany portrayed Vivien Leigh in one of my most-favorite guilty pleasure films, "The Scarlett O'Hara Wars." This piece of cinematic wonder should be enshrined in the DL "Hall of Fame and/or Infamy."

Did I mention Barrie Youngfellow is in it as Mrs. Alfred Steele, before she actually married the poor sod?

Would like to see an all-male version of it, so many delicious OTT roles, we'd be keening for months.

R41: you forgot to mention Sharon Gless as Carole Lombard! My favourite scene was Tallulah Bankhead chain-smoking and coughing her way through her audition for David O Selznick (Tony Curtis).

r42 Gless gave the finest performance as Lombard. Her scene with Carrie Nye as Tallulah, would have delighted the real Miss Bankhead. Only Edward Winter, as Gable, struck the wrong note.

I'll need to watch this sometime. The movie sounds pretty good. And yes about Ed Winter, he had the whitest teeth is 80s Hollywood, nothing like Gables brown stained dentures.

[quote] One day they’re on top, but the fall can happen overnight, and everyone abandons them once the fame and money dries up.

You’re not kidding. I’m watching Fast Times at Ridgemont High on tv and the scene with the goofy science teacher & his hot wife was just on. The wife was played by Lana Clarkson, a once promising actress who was reduced to going home with guys like Phil Spector. And dying,

Joanna Pettet only took care of Alan Bennett for a few years before his death. Begore that, she had a history of bad to worse to none movies,

Alan Bates, dear.

I wrote Bates but looks like my iPad wasn’t having it

The awards shows are so unfunny today compared to this.

She was a presenter that night. She was obviously invited because of The Seduction which had been released only a few weeks prior. It was her attempt to catapult her into a movie star.

Never A-list anything. She wasn't. Good try though.

What is this thread even about? She was A list just because she was at the Oscars? I know no-list people who’ve gone multiple times.

Has Colton been to the Oscars?

Bette shows here how to properly roast Hollywood and celebrities without taking it too far. Ricky Gervais should take note.

Ricky Gervais has hosted the Golden Globes how many times? Why would he take note?

R52 true. The Oscars are always a mix of up and comers with some recognition under their belt, established A or B sometimes C, list and last years winners .

R56, It's more than just her being at the Oscars. It's the way she's been given a prime seat reserved for A-listers, the way she turns around and laughs along with the crowd as if she is in total command of the room, and the way the camera is lovingly displaying her. These are all characteristics of an A-lister.

Notice how she is the more charismatic star over Meryl Streep, who looks like an unknown supporting player in the audience.

R57 she was probably farther back in the audience than you can tell. A listers weren’t always in the front rows at the Oscars, but by 1982 they were. I don’t even recognize anyone famous in that clip near her when the camera is on her. Harry Hamlin was right behind Jane Fonda, when she got up to accept for her dad, so he got a good seat. I seriously doubt Fairchild was socializing with Beatty, Keaton, Nicholson, and Streep that night.

The Seduction got a huge push by the studio. It was supposed to be the movie that was going to catapult Morgan into movies.

I have no idea how the movie fared at the box office, but it was nominated for quite a few Razzies the following year.

Considering that the movie opened in January of 1982 and the nominations were in February of 1983, it clearly must have had an impact somehow (albeit not very well). It might have been one of those movies that flopped at the box office but found an audience when it aired on cable.

R57 I must be watching a different video. She doesn’t stand out more than anyone else they showed in the audience. In total command of the room? Charismatic? Really? I must have blinked and missed all of that.

I always heard The Seduction did fairly well at the box office. Morgan once said that Bette Davis sent her a lovely letter about the film and her performance when she caught it on cable in the 80's. If it's good enough for Bette...

R59 the Oscars that year were in March of 1982. I guess the Seduction opened to good enough box office for Morgan to get an invite.

What was this all about?

I think she mostly does Hallmark movies these days. Glad she's still getting work, but that must be mind-numbing.

I watched “The Seduction” in the theater. I told my mom it was for Morgan when obviously it was for Andrew Stevens 🤪!

She made Final 3 on VH’1’s “But Can They Sing”!

Morgan singing “Believe” (audio only).

^ DAMN!

I am almost rolling on the floor laughing! Thanks for that Bohemian Rhapsody video.

I didn't know that Sally Kirkland used to be an A-list celebrity!!

R70 Did you know that Edy Williams was also an A-list celebrity? Some people would even say that she still is!

She's no Rhonda Shear!

I didn't know that Matt Stone used to have an A-list celebrity body!

Help me!

Today is February 3-Morgan Fairchild's birthday. (It was online.) She's 70. Honest to god, I thought she was on the other half of 75.

My girlfriend, Morgan Fairchild, has always been A-list.

R18, it's kind of dark but I'm pretty sure that's Craig Denault. He was a cinematographer, not an actor, though. He worked on quite a few big films at that time and may have had an invite to the Oscars before Morgan did, if he was in the union, and I'd bet he was.

R77, You're right. Sadly, he committed suicide in 1994. I wonder if he and Morgan were still together when he killed himself?

[Quote] In Los Angeles, on the evening of 15 April 1994, a heavily-intoxicated Denault crashed his vehicle into several parked cars. He then emerged from his car with a duffel bag and began swallowing a handful of pills. A police officer arrived on the scene and attempted to subdue Denault using pepper spray. Denault turned his back to the officer, dropped to his knees, and pulled out a gun from his duffel bag. Before the officer could react, Denault shot himself in the forehead, killing himself.

Mary!

That's the craziest suicide I've ever heard. Yikes!

He looked so calm and happy at the Oscars with Morgan. Who could have ever guessed that he would die in such a crazy way just 12 years later. Life can be so strange.

She wishes she still looked as good as the photo at R8.

She now looks like the Cabbage Patch version of herself.

But R41, did you know that movie was part of a three part miniseries?

I believe she and Denault had broken up by 1984 or so. Most of the photos of them together are from 1981-1983.

I follow Morgan Fairchild on Twitter. She's my goddess.

I'm rewatching 'Dallas' on Amazon Prime (via IMDB TV, so commercials). I've wondered for years why Morgan didn't stay on as Jenna Wade...her first ep as Jenna is fantastic. Then Priscilla swooped in a few years later and lazily (and seemingly without a hairbrush) played Jenna for nearly 150 eps...did Morgan just not want to settle being a supporting character? Jenna could've rivaled Sue Ellen and Pam (and even the bitchy Katherine Wentworth) for storylines, if written the right way. Instead, Morgan flitted from 'Flamingo Road' to 'Paper Dolls' to 'Falcon Crest'. Did she just bet her luck, hoping for a hit primetime soap to call her own?

Btw for the poster who mentioned Morgan's AIDS charity work, I've read several sources who cited her as one of the very first celebrities to join the fundraising cause. Dame Liz joined and then Morgan was made redundant, as Liz's star power overshadowed everyone else. Of course, Liz raised an awful lot of $$$, just based on her name and star power.

They must have been letting D-Listers in that night- Shelley Smith is there too !