Molly Ringwald- anyone else loving this recent resurgence?

No, not really. Her agent must be amazing though.

Christ, that voice…

Yes, I loved her randomly appearing at an al-anon meeting on The Bear.

R2 what’s wrong with it? When she was younger I understood why some people hated her voice but she doesn’t sound like that anymore now.

No. Totally dull non-actress. She seems like an okay person, though that self flagellation in the New Yorker a few years back about The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles no longer being woke enough for her to show her kids was fucking annoying, especially considering she’s something of a generational icon because of those two films.

3 films r5. 3.

And she’s lovely. And a fine actress.

Jimmy Fallon? You’ve hit rock bottom when you appear on that crap.

Yes I’m well aware of Pretty in Pink, but I truly don’t remember anything about it besides gorgeous preppy bitch James Spader, Harry Dean Stanton - to quote Pauline Kael - in a BATHROBE, and that godawful dress she ended up wearing to prom. I’m not sure she was anything special, John Hughes was attached to her and made her a muse of sorts for his middling Reaganite teen fare.

Hughes went to my high school. I hate his movies about teenagers but find his other work - more broad comedy - funny.

R7 every celeb goes there…

R8 what you “remember” doesn’t mean shit. It’s a classic and beloved.

R10 Are you Molly Ringwald or her agent?

How long will we have to wait for a Jon Cryer resurgence?

R12 huh? He was in Twelve and a Half Men for many years

She's kinda looking Julia Sweeney-ish in middle age

I think she looks beautiful.

Jon Cryer? The same Jon Cryer who was in Dharma & Greg and Two and a Half Men? Two very successful series. He won 2 Emmy awards for the latter.

She looks like a sparkling Michael Myers, with the same wig but longer.

I thought she was really good in Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. I almost didn't recognize her.

I loved Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club.

Jon Cryer has a new show with Donald Faison. He finally ditched the toupee.

I have a cute picture she took with me. We would have had cute dark red haired babies together. I’d post it but you’re all too mean.

Good lord OP, half the posts here are you. Do you enjoy replying to yourself? Are you "special?" What's the obsession in defending her? How odd.

r17- I completely agree. I was shocked to learn it was Molly Ringwald playing Dahmer's mother. I thought she did an excellent job, quite honestly.

I believe I her on Broadway in something, but i can't recall what. Thought she did pretty good - and that was a couple decades ago.

Stepmother. Not mother.

R21 if you can’t remember it’s because it didn’t happen.

Right, thanks for the correction.

[quote] I completely agree. I was shocked to learn it was Molly Ringwald playing Dahmer's mother. I thought she did an excellent job, quite honestly.

You couldn't have been playing too close attention. She didn't play his mother.

She was a cute teen and had the eye-rolling-teen thing down pat. But as an adult she’s dull, nondescript and I can’t take her voice. It was much better when she was a teen.

When she was a teen she had old lady hair. Now, at 55, she has young girl hair.

I gotta say, her publishing her translation of the French novel Arrête avec tes mesonges impressed the hell out of me. How many former teen stars do that?

She’s an intellect.

She was so annoying on The Facts of Life. Couldn’t stand her. But then I saw 16 Candles and changed my mind.

So annoying its NSFW.

Molly was a child singer.

I had this record. My poor parents.

Does DL have a Molly Ringwald troll now? Will it join the Lange Loon, the Capucine stan, and the Gong Li and Liv Ullmann trolls?

Molly's next project is starring in the emotional LT biopic "You Take the Good, You Take the Bad: The Charlotte Rae Story."

Glad she’s getting some work. She’s not as annoying as RDJ.

i think she's pretty diverse. She lived in France for part of her life. She's fluent in French, she writes, she does Broadway, and apparently she sings as well.

She has the life she wants, and good for her. She didn't fade into nothing, she's been living her life and doing projects that she wanted to.

Her Instagram account is really fun. Looks like fashion designer Zac Posen, who also has a great Instagram account, is her gay bff.

She actually had a really lovely comment about Pretty in Pink, I believe in that New Yorker article about how she knew why people found some of Duckie’s antics distasteful but when they were filming, she had always had it in her mind that he was gay.

She’s not a great actress and she’s interesting and thoughtful. There are a lot worse out there.

She was a beautiful teenager - he skin and hair and face were really beautiful, especially in a time where blonde/tanned were the norm. Everyone during high school thought she was really pretty, despite the fact she didn't fit the blonde/tanned/skinny norm. She's really tall and has a body to match. That's not a crime, let's not shame her because she's a bigger-boned person.

R21 she did Cabaret, Enchanted April, and the play Modern Orthodox on Broadway.

Modern Orthodox was Off-Broadway. And her co-stars hated her with a passion.

I saw her in Cabaret r39. She didn't suck, but honestly, i had never seen it before. She had many people lined up for kudos and autographs. But maybe that's the way most Broadway plays go.

Those gums

She was a natural young screen performer like Jodie Foster but it never transferred to adult roles the same way.

I was such a huge fan of hers when I was in high school and I was obsessed with the John Hughes films as they were released in the theater and went to see both Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club multiple times. (And I skipped school opening day of Pretty in Pink so I could go to the first show on Friday.) But she never really had the talent to make the leap.

I know she turned down some substantial roles that could have catapulted her into adult stardom, but I think she would have been wrong for them (especially Pretty Woman). I think she could have done Blue Velvet (and her mother was stupid to say no), and that might have opened a new avenue for her, but she just wasn't a very good actress, so in the end, she probably would have wound up where she is no matter what. People have a warm feeling about her because she was part of their childhoods, but there's a reason she doesn't work a whole lot. (also she's known to be a major cunt, but that's another story.)

She's certainly had a resurgence in recent years; I frankly didn't envision it for her, as it seemed she was content doing her literary translation work and living pretty low-key.

Does anyone remember when she starred opposite Kylie Minogue in the Aussie slasher flick "Cut" in 2000? I remember renting it from the video store as an adolescent budding horror fan, but I don't remember anything about it other than that it was about people making a slasher movie. It was direct-to-video here in the US, but it may have gotten a theatrical release in Australia. I might have to revisit it for old time's sake.

never heard of it, r45. i'll check it out.

I enjoy her, but I think I wouldnt if I had close personal interactions with her.

I'd Lick Her Shitter

Why r47? Because she’s an intellect and a lover of literature?

I think she needed more upper support in that dress.

R45 she’s still always worked as an actress while also doing literary translations. As she said in this one interview, she was the mother in both Riverdale and The Kissing Booth. She has always gotten offered roles in teenage geared media, even to this day.

I remember she was also Shailene Woodley’s mom in that American Teenager tv show and was given a cameo in Not Another Teen Movie. They always offer her these roles straight out. She has been the face off teenage girls to many people for 40+ years now.

Molly's career is fascinating and reminds me a bit of former child star Patty McCormick wherein after a childhood/adolescence of A-list stardom they continue with their acting careers as pedestrian C-level working actors. Demonstrating that not every child star is Jodie Foster or Elizabeht Taylor nor Freddie Bartholemew or Corey Haim.

Between Riverdale and her appearance in Dahmer, it’s not like this is the first time she’s been in the public eye in years.

I loved it when she and the rest of the Breakfast Club cast (sans the always-absent Emilio Estevez), regrouped for the John Hughes Oscar remembrance.

She is also the mom in The Kissing Booth trilogy.

She was the mom in The Secret Life of the American Teenager (god that makes me feel old).

I saw Emilio Estevez once up close attending an event at the Hollywood Bowl maybe 2005 or 2006. He was much heavier than his teenage years (of course, who isn't?), but not obese. His shortness was what took me my surprise. i never thought he was tall, but just didn't realize how short he was - like maybe 5'5" or 5'6".

I think he's somewhat of a hermit, or at the very least, a severe introvert.

She appeared in Teaching Mrs. Tingle, the Dawson’s Creek-era Katie Holmes vehicle. I remember thinking “Young Molly is now playing a teacher?”

I disagree that she’s a bad actress. I always found her performance in the forgotten PIP redux Fresh Horses to be moving. She’s great in this scene with Andrew McCarthy and Viggo Mortensen.

Molly has the Perpetual Frozen Face look here in this photo.

R56 It's weird to think even THAT show was 15 years ago (the beginning of it, anyway).

I wanted Mark Derwin, the dad on that show, inside me deeply and on my face, often and hard.

Molly did that all wrong. Red carpets hadn't gotten to her yet. That heifer reaction was hilarious. When Demi Moore looks dainty beside you, you are a large girl.

John Hughes literally wrote movies specifically for Molly Ringwald. She was a pretty teenager whose parts were written for a wistful teenager. She couldn’t *not* have been right for the part, since she *was* the part. When she wasn’t a pretty, wistful young girl anymore she turned into an above-average-looking and horrendously-voiced adult. Her attraction was her youth. That’s true of so many people. We’re pretty, innocent-yet-knowing, gullible yet sarcastic, discovering new things every day. As life goes on, we lose all that.

Jodie Foster was not a pretty adolescent or teenager. She had uneven teeth, terrible hair, was tomboyish and didn’t do clothes any favors. She wasn’t the first crush of anyone except maybe baby dykes. She didn’t have that young teen freshness and magic. Ringwald did. And then she grew up and out of her persona, which was wholly concocted by John Hughes just for young Molly.

Jodie Foster played a 12 year old prostitute, which was shocking and attention-getting in the 1970s. Then she got stalked by a guy who shot the president. She was an American emblem. That’s why she was able to continue working …and she made her comeback playing a rape victim. Sex and violence. American as apple pie.

I find her very annoying nowadays, but was a fan growing up.

One was just a more well rounded actress also. Foster grew up to be very conventional looking which Hollywood always liked. Molly was a ginger with freckles and porcelain skin. In the 90s that wasn’t in.

[quote] I think she looks amazing

I think she’s almost unrecognizable.

She’s 55. She looks amazing.

If someone’s 55 and they look amazing because they just happen to look amazing at 55, that’s great. If they look younger because they had work done, the credit if any should go to their surgeon.

She's intelligent and she can actually act fine, but she looks bizarre. She has a head like Rumer Willis--it's all jaw. And she's fucked up her lips.

She always had big, full, pouty lips. look at any of her stills from her teenage movies. Very big lips.

She's not ugly, just....void.

She was a homely, pouty nothing when she had her presurgence. Now she's ugly, old and untalented.

Have always loved Molly. Well maybe not on Facts of Life. But I sat on a subway in NYC across from her she was reading something in French. She was on Broadway at the time. Cabaret or Tik Tik Boom. I'm of her time so nostalgia and relatability are part of it. But I love a comeback or pop in from older performers from back then.

[quote] Molly was a ginger with freckles and porcelain skin

And massive gums. Which she still has.

She also looked good in the fashion of the time which was sort of a younger, slouchy, brightly colored, carried-forward Annie Hall look. Suspenders like Annie wore, but looser and more colorful. The hats - all those Molly Ringwald hats. The slouchy blazers/suit jackets. The lacy long sleeved shirts with thumb holes. American adolescent girls wanted to be her.

But I would never know, seeing her on a screen today, that she is Molly Ringwald. Her jaw had protruded a little when she was younger and it gave her a little character. I think she had jaw realignment surgery to fix it and it took away her character, like Jennifer Grey’s nose job took her character away from her.

It was a mistake.

The dress in the op is not for her.

I doubt her hair was naturally reddish. I think it was colored.

R74 Excellent summation analysis. I remember all the girls in school with the hats and the long Firenza sweaters with the V in the back. Longish flouncy or shorter above the knee. With high top chuck taylor or flat shoe. Maybe a granny boot or little elf boots. The peter pan type boot that all the cool girls had.

r76 I really didn't think so as her complexion was always very pale with freckles, which usually coincides with red hair. However, i just looked it up and one result said she was born a brunette and her agent said she should color her hair as it would help her to stand out.

R78 Thanks, I didn’t know that, it was just a guess. Because she really never had red hair, more of a plum color, which didn’t look natural, to me.

R54 His death doesn't seem so long ago. I never cared for him as I've heard he was anti-gay. Molly seems out of place in that memorial tribute dressed in purple (when everyone else is in black). I hate the waves of black outfits we are stuck with for the past 30 years but I guess the tribute called for it.

R54 Emilio was making his film The Way outside of the country in 2010, maybe that’s why he couldn’t be there.

R81, he never gets together with the cast whenever they do retrospectives. I don’t even think he participated in the extras interviews on the anniversary DVD release for The Breakfast Club.

That's too bad I'd like to hear what he had to say.

Ringwald doesn't seem on the same sophisticated and elegant level as the other "Swans."

Joanne Carson wasn’t very sophisticated nor elegant. She was rather plain and she stuck by Capote after the Swans dropped him because of his exposé.

[quote] I think it was colored.

Mamie, is that you?

Ok, R85. Whatever

R87 is a Molly hater.

[quote] Ringwald doesn't seem on the same sophisticated and elegant level as the other "Swans."

Her character was not one of the Swans. She was just another rich woman Capote befriended who lived on the other coast.

she speaks french, she sings, she's unstoppable

Molly was THE icon of '80s Hollywood teen queens. She covered Time magazine, was in a trifecta of iconic films of the decade aimed at the teen set, and was up for several parts, which would have catapulted her into further success (Blue Velvet, Pretty Woman).

Joanne Carson wasn't one of the Swans. I'm not criticizing her, but she was on the periphery and was friends with Capote. That didn't make her a Swan.

I remember she was supposed to do a photo shoot with Lillian Gish and kept Gish waiting 3 hours then sent flowers and didn’t show at all.

I'm somewhat surprised she hasn't tried more on Broadway. She was a young singer with her musician dad's Trad Jazz band. I imagine she learned a lot from him about being a good vocalist.

You're talking about Moldy Ringworm, OP?

Woof.

Like an apple doll head left in the sun with the lips colored by a kid's crayon.

r95 you were probably the kid who bullied others in school to feel better about themselves because your mom and/or dad (or other people) were constantly berating you for whatever reason.

Grow up and stop calling people names and bullying. I think it's okay for you to move out of that and try to be a better person without making others feel inferior.

The bloated control freak at R96, so humane, so kind, so fat:

10 Grand for whoever solves my identity Kanye, is that you??

10 Grand for whoever solves my identity Oh, my God - Britney is among us!!

10 Grand for whoever solves my identity Could it be....SATAN??

10 Grand for whoever solves my identity Come on, between my guesses of Kanye, Satan and Britney, i had to have hit it on the head somewhere there.

Although the Lil Nas X was also a great choice. He's also a rabid attention ho.

10 Grand for whoever solves my identity Um, excuse me r49. I went to the DMV to renew my driver's license on January 4th of this year (my birthday) and at least 3/4 or more of the people working there were white. Northern California/Bay Area here.

10 Grand for whoever solves my identity Well, Teacake: you're WRONG.

This is in Northern California, an hour north of San Fransisco.

Shocking!! But you don't know it all the way you think you might.

10 Grand for whoever solves my identity Sorry; i realize r52 Teacake was saying r49 was the asshole who thinks only minorities work at the DMV now.

Please accept my apologies.

10 Grand for whoever solves my identity Um, i'm not sure why this (r55) posted on this thread...weird.

10 Grand for whoever solves my identity Ok, i need to go to bed now. LOL.

10 Grand for whoever solves my identity r76 Santa Rosa. There is no DMV in the teeny tiny town of Bodega Bay.

10 Grand for whoever solves my identity Bodega Bay is indeed the teeny tiny town on the coast where they filmed The Birds.

But there has never been a DMV there...it's far too small for that. There are only two DMVs in the entirety of Sonoma County: Santa Rosa and Petaluma.

10 Grand for whoever solves my identity Prepare for one of the top 10 most expensive rents in the country. The rental prices here are insane. It's really irritating, to be honest. I live in a 640 sf studio in Santa Rosa and pay $1745. That's considered a "bargain" around here, too.

10 Grand for whoever solves my identity r90 - there are cheaper places near to the Russian River area, although those are among the Redwoods and some areas don't get a ton of sun because of it. I'm about 35-40 minutes from the beach. Comparatively, places along the river are more like 15 or 20 minutes. Santa Rosa is about an hour from SF WITHOUT traffic; with traffic it can take up to an hour and 45 minutes, or if a very high traffic time, up to 2 hours. You learn to plan around that if it's important to you to go to the city. I rarely go to the city; maybe once every 2 years or so, or obviously when you want to fly out of SFO or OAK.

It's truly beautiful up here, and I like the weather a whole lot better than I did when i lived in LA and when I grew up in San Diego County. But, be aware, it does get scorching hot (high 90s to 100s) at least a good two or three weeks out of the year (at least). If you live near the river, that comes down about 10 degrees though. I enjoy having a change of seasons that I never really got down in Southern California. And i like the rain we get (as long as it's not a drought year).

My only real complaint is how insanely expensive rent is. And I'll never be able to buy a house unless my income increases significantly, i couple up with someone and we're a two income household, or i finally write the book i've always been supposedly meant to (according to family members).

What can you do?

So how’s Molly Ringwald?

r97 half of what you posted wasn't me, and no, i don't have a sock puppet nor even know how one one would accomplish that, nor would i care to know how.

Go to bed, baby.

also, i'm not at all ashamed about what i posted. Good luck to you with your shaming others. if anything, you posting my post history showed me for someone who ISN'T a person that targets or is mean to others. THANKS!

How is Chloe cocksuck a more elegant swan that Molly?

R97 got into her granddaughter's bag of “generic Chuckles candy”

Maybe 10 years ago or so, I saw Molly Ringwald in the national Broadway touring company of Sweet Charity. She was quite good.

R97 Wrong thread?

R97 needs to put the crack pipe down. #rememberwhitney

She was annoying on “The Facts of Life” with her bowl cut and adenoidal voice. And then there was her singing and guitar playing… Yeesh.

Here's a campy, 90s B movie she starred in!

Here's what the 90s was like kids!

If "The Facts of Life" is your center of gravity for Molly Ringwald, you're saying more about yourself than you're saying about her.

I would call her attractive, not beautiful, but to each his own. She is quite accomplished in many areas and not a famewhore so props for those.

Office Killer was directed by Cindy Sherman. As an art fag I was so excited but then so let down.

Maybe worth another look, though.

She should have realized the best man, the one who really loved her, was Duckie.

R106 Yeah she was fucking busted on The Facts of Life. Bowl cut, corduroys, prairiecore long sleeve shirt.

I don't love the name Molly. I know it was trendy for a while. Isn't it short for Margaret? Another name I don't love. I do like Meg or Maggie as a short form of Margaret.

I wouldn’t call Molly Ringwald beautiful, then or now, but she’s attractive enough that many straight men would want to bed her (in her prime.)

She smelled down there.

No, R97 enjoyed the holier-than-thou hate-cunt who is the opposite of her claims.

Like the rest of us, impotent R102.

I don't think I ever got a good sense of her personality.

90% of her personality is in that short hair cut.

She needs to tone down the lip gloss. She isn’t16 anymore

[quote] he never gets together with the cast whenever they do retrospectives. I don’t even think he participated in the extras interviews on the anniversary DVD release for The Breakfast Club.

I always had the impression that Emilio hated the whole 'Brat Pack' moniker they were all stuck with at the height of their careers. Ally Sheedy said it ruined the relationships that they had with each other. Every actor wants to be taken seriously and it seems being branded a teen idol or being associated with anything teen is the kiss of death for a long career. Emilio also comes from a family legacy the rest of them don't have. He doesn't need to show up to any reunions if he doesn't want to and he doesn't need the attention that Molly is obviously so desperate for. His father is Martin Sheen he never needed those guys to be a success.

I don’t think Emilio being a nepo baby is his reason for ditching the BC reunions, I just think that he always wanted to be taken seriously, and to be known for more than just this point in his career. I’ve heard that he was always very focused and driven, and that he would be writing notes for screenplays during downtime while filming these Brat Pack movies.

I just remember him as the stocky blonde twink that he once was.

^you just regurgitated every single point I made in the previous post and them dropped some pictures of Emilio from forty years ago. You're a useless unoriginal cunt R120

Oh fuck off, R121, you putrid, gaping asshole. Emilio not showing up at BC reunions 30-40 years after the fact has zero to do with who he's related to, which was the point of your pathetic post.

Good golly, Miss Molly. You sure missed the ball!

(as Joanne Carson, who actually did NOT go to the Black and white ball).

She looked great on Morning Joe. Jon Cryer was on the show just before Molly. I wonder if they had a mini PIP reunion backstage.

r124, that was a missed opportunity for the show. I would have loved to see that reunion.

And for those of you criticizing her looks on The Facts of Life, wtf is wrong with you? She was a little girl with zero control over what she looked like.

I never understood her appeal.

I like seeing her. She doesn't seem to have grown as an actress though.

If you didn't see her appeal, you clearly didn't grow up in the 80s. She was the antithesis of what was considered "hot" at that time.

She was the manic pixie dream girl before it became a thing at that time. She was the opposite of what was considered hot, yet she was kind of hot in her own way.

I think you had to live through the 80s in your teens to really understand. Everyone wanted her. No guy wanted the chick that got plastered and would let every dude fuck her, then cut off her hair...whatever. There were hot blonde girls who were a dime a dozen, then there was Molly, who had substance and was different not just like all the blonde/tanned girls of that time.

100%^

She's really fun in the little Zac Posen film about the gowns he created for the B&W Ball characters. I love her sense of drama.

Jess Lange is at special guest star camp level now.

[quote]she speaks french, she sings, she's unstoppable

She's unsinkable! The Unsinkable Molly

Most girls aspired to be her and her stupidly ugly, yet so unique dress in Pretty in Pink. She was the face of that time.

I'm telling it from the front line.

That qween Rex Reed in the 1980's once said-

Molly Ringwald with her CHEEZE DOODLE hair!

link r134

I wish Molly had not messed with her jaw. She looks very strange now.

i don't think she's messed with her jaw. it's large and natural. it always was.

or am i not seeing recent pics with severe jaw shaving?

The Fat Faced And Untalented Molly Ringwald

I'm not going through that entire thread, r 138

I lived in Southern California during that period and Molly was the girl every girl wished they were.

Period. I'm not responding again. If you don't understand, you won't ever understand.

First Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

R128 She was not a manic pixie girl.

r140 shut your face. She was the girl all the guys went wild for and wasn't the normal hot girl and had quirks. Definition.

“ Dunst embodies a character type I like to call The Manic Pixie Dream Girl (see Natalie Portman in Garden State for another prime example). The Manic Pixie Dream Girl exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures. The Manic Pixie Dream Girl is an all-or-nothing-proposition. Audiences either want to marry her instantly (despite The Manic Pixie Dream Girl being, you know, a fictional character) or they want to commit grievous bodily harm against them and their immediate family.”

That’s Zooey Deschanel in most of her movies. That’s not Molly.

Whatever. She was the definition of the girl that the jock wouldn't go for...but would because she's quirky, interesting, different.

So he did go for her. She was interesting, different, quirky. That was the movie. She wasn't the typical princess at all.

Molly Ringworm

I knew her when we were both kids. She was a conceited bitch, but there was an undercurrent of insecurity. And she had insufferable stage parents.

Whoever told her tight red polyurethane showing lots of skin and pinching into back fat is a good look at 55....might not be her friend.

She's bright and has some culture, though, so there's that.

i wouldn't have recognized her to be honest. maybe because she covers her freckles.