Since starring in Sixteen Candles, the actress has appeared in the films The Trip to Bountiful, Resurrection, Continental Divide, The Escape Artist, Gardens of Stone, Blood Red, Night Game, Convicts, Judy Berlin and Whiskey School. According to Gedde Watanabe (Long Duk Dong), there was a deleted scene where he sings at the dance. Other cast members that year included Randy Quaid, Hall's co-star from Vacation and Robert Downey Junior, his co-star from Weird Science. "In her mind, Caroline bears some responsibility for what happens, because of how drunk she gets at the party." Actor Age Check - How old was John Cusack in Sixteen Candles? Written and directed by John Hughes in his directorial debut, it was the first in a string of films Hughes would direct centering on teenage life. The cake that Jake Ryan and Samantha kiss over was made out of cardboard. Hughes liked working with his stock company of young muses, Kapelos, Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall; etc. Laura Dern and Robin Wright auditioned for the role of Samantha Baker. Dick Biondi: Chicago radio legend is heard on the radio (uncredited) in the opening bedroom scene where Molly Ringwald is looking in her mirror. Between the Michael's and the John's in the cast, you pretty much have everyone covered! At the beginning of the film, Molly Ringwald is filling out a questionnaire. Watch for the 57-year-old in Augusts action film Underdogs. While he doesnt know Sam at the beginning of the film, he eventually develops a crush on her. The first being Class (1983). Hes continued to play such roles on film and TV, including Dream On, Waiting for Guffman, The Practice, ER, Desperate Housewives, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Cars (and Cars 2), and Super Fun Night. This was the second movie in which Joan Cusack and John Cusack appeared together. Where: Hyatt Regency Orlando, 9801 International Drive, Orlando. Glynn (now 74) and Masterson are the parents of Mary Stuart Masterson, who starred in Hughes Some Kind of Wonderful. When Molly Ringwald was asked about the character during a 2010 interview with John Meroney in The Atlantic, she defended Hughes by saying that "Comedy can be cruel, and while political correctness is important in many instances, it would pretty much be the death of comedy if it were taken to the extreme." In the initial script, Sams father ends his heart-to-heart with his daughter by flat out asking what happened to her underwear (she gave it to Farmer Ted.) Sixteen Candles wasnt the first film that 21-year-old Joan Cusack appeared in alongside her brother John (that would be 1983s Class), and it was far from the last. 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. So we have a long way to go. Wasnt it been just yesterday that she was the archetypal American teenager herself in Sixteen Candles? The original soundtrack was released as a specially priced mini-album containing only five songs. In real life the School of Rock's beginnings would horrify a lot of teachers and adults largely because it was being taught by a man that was passionate about music but didn't know anything about teaching or even being around kids. Mccaulley Culkin was actually tied for #2; as he was in Uncle Buck; Home Alone and Home Alone 2. Of all the films Molly Ringwald made with John Hughes, she said, "I had the most fun on Sixteen Candles.". 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. "Miss Popularity" Caroline's shower scene (played by a body double for Haviland Morris) was named #9 on its Top 20 Gratuitous Nude Scenes of The 1980s by website Flashbak in July 2014. Somebody must've had a few beers.". Her film credits include roles in Who's That Girl, A Shock to the System, Home Alone 3, The Baxter, Cherry Crush and Burning Blue. 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. When Ted is walking up the aisle of the bus to sit next to Samantha, the theme from Dragnet (1951) plays. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Digital Similarly, Haviland Morris, who played Caroline, is now a real estate agent in New York City. By most accounts, he moved to Virginia with his wife and kids, where he works as a carpenter. By the end of its run, it grossed $23,686,027 against a budget of $6.5 million. Watch for the 47-year-old in several 2014 films, including thriller The Bag Man, David Cronenbergs Maps to the Stars, and Beach Boy Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy. 2023 Minute Media - All Rights Reserved. It's missing a bunch of stuffIt's definitely not perfect, and I'm always working to improve the site. In a 2008 National Public Radio piece titled "Long Duk Dong: Last of the Hollywood Stereotypes?" 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). The film follows the teenager on her 16th birthday as she tries to navigate high school, all while her family forgets to celebrate her big day. 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. 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. John Hughes: [The Beatles] Ted Farmer sings "Birthday" to Sam in the auto shop. The dress that Sam wears to the school dance was supposed to be worn by Liane Curtis (who played Randy). Now 53, hes been absent from the screen for 23 years, so we never had to watch Jake Ryan get old. Cusack co-wrote the filmsGrosse Point Blank, High FidelityandWar, Inc. and has produced the filmsGrace Is Gone, Hot Tub Time MachineandCell. Morris has had guest starring roles on Law & Order, Diagnosis: Murder, Sex and the City, One Tree Hill, The Good Wife and Blue Bloods. He played Bryce, one of the geeky friends of "the Geek." Soon after his appearance as Bryce, Cusack shot to fame with a series of cult teen films, including "Say Anything" and "The Sure Thing." Throughout the '80s and '90s, Cusack was a Hollywood heartthrob. He followed that up with such indelible films as The Grifters, Bullets Over Broadway, Grosse Pointe Blank, Being John Malkovich, High Fidelity, and 2012. 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). "I was in that stack," Ringwald recalled to Entertainment Weekly in January. 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 ). How accurate is ActorAgeCheck?Our database is powered by the most powerful people on the planet. Magazines, Or create a free account to access more articles. At 15, Ringwald became Hughes muse on the strength of her headshot alone; he wrote the lead role in Sixteen Candles with the Tempest actress in mind. Free shipping for many products! He continued to act sporadically during the 1980s in such films as Martins Day and Sweet Hearts Dance. 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. Schoeffling's final acting credit was as Al Carver in the 1991 film Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken. 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. What is this?ActorAgeCheck is a free service that allows you to quickly view the age of an actor/actress along with their age in a specific movie (it's important to note that the age of a person in a particular movie is based on the movies release date, and may not represent the actual filming date). 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. The same people can be seen making the same movements in both movies. 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. Tags: 16 candles, 80s, 80s movies, funny, jake ryan, molly ringwald, mother, nostalgia, sixteen candles, ryan 16 candles funny, car scene, red car The actor has also appeared in a number of television shows including Murphy Brown, Newhart, Seinfeld, Home Improvement and Everwood. Amy Benfer writes "The scene only works because people were stupid about date rape at the time. 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. Geek Girl #1 in actionSixteen Candles 1984. All Rights Reserved. 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. Studies show that 60% of the time, our search works every time. . a car, and maybe some cake. In this movie (Sixteen Candles), he portrayed Grandpa Fred Baker. Gedde Watanabe followed up Sixteen Candles with many films and TV roles. She feels so uncomfortable in his presence that she starts crying and runs out of the gym. He most recently starred in the filmNever Grow Old, which hit theaters in March. 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.". 2023 TIME USA, LLC. Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day. "I don't even think he's aware of this," Hall says in the interview. Some of those old movies star Cusack and his favorite co-star, one of his older sisters, Joan. This was probably due to his popularity in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979). Blanche Baker (born December 20, 1956) is an American actress and filmmaker. He reunited with Hughes (and Anthony Michael Hall) in Weird Science and The Breakfast Club (where he played all-knowing janitor Carl, perhaps his best-known role). Now 85, Dooley made his most recent appearance earlier this year on an episode of Parenthood. 2023 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. 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. And at that point the terrible trio broke up, and infact they rarely if ever spoke to Hughes much again after that. Say Anything is the only movie where they play siblings. A protge of Lucille Balls, comic actress Cook had appeared in such films as The Incredible Mr. Limpet, The Gauntlet, and American Gigolo when, at 59, she got to co-star in Sixteen Candles as the grandma who feels up pubescent granddaughter Samantha. Ringwald starred as Anne Jurgens on ABC Family's The Secret Life of the American Teenager from 2008 to 2013 and currently plays the recurring role of Mary Andrews on The CW's Riverdale. A girl's "sweet" sixteenth birthday is anything but special: her family forgets about it, and she suffers from every embarrassment possible. Sixteen Candles A teenage girls deals with her parents forgetting her birthday and a crush on her high school's heartthrob. Gedde Watanabe's accent isn't real. Her grandfathers, played by Edward Andrews and Max Showalter, starred separately in two different episodes. Molly Ringwald got to decorate Samantha's bedroom with items from her own dwelling. Director John Hughes Writer John Hughes Stars Molly Ringwald Anthony Michael Hall Justin Henry See production, box office & company info Watch on Prime Video included with Prime More watch options Long Waits, Short Appointments, Huge Bills. Hall, 15, had so impressed Hughes when he played Rusty Griswold in the Hughes-scripted National Lampoons Vacation that Hughes wrote for him the part of Farmer Ted, simply known as The Geek, in Sixteen Candles. 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. Jake is always going to be hot. Hughes, who was known for writing while chain-smoking and blaring music, wrote the Sixteen Candles script over a single Fourth of July weekend. She collaborated with Hughes again on The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, as well as starred in the films The Pick-up Artist, Fresh Horses, For Keeps, Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story, The Stand, Jem and the Holograms, King Cobra, SPF-18 and The Kissing Booth. Trivia Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall were both sixteen years-old when the movie was released. It turns out Jake is a bit of a cheapskate. When Ginny, Sams sister whose pending marriage takes the attention away from Sams sixteenth birthday, sits down in the church scene, she does so next to John and Jim Belushis mother Agnes. Tora! She also played the role of Claire Baxter on One Life to Live from 2001 to 2003. 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. The store will not work correctly in the case when cookies are disabled. While it's difficult to pinpoint the exact age of Anthony Michael Hall, the cast of Sixteen Candles is still growing. Chicago sibling actors John and Joan Cusack appear in this together; as well as Say Anything and Broadcast News. His retirement lasted 16 years until his death at 83 in 2000. 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. After writing the screenplays for Mr. But it's funny, too, because at the same time I laugh at the character. A lot of actors tend to work together over and over but a lot of actors aren't brother and sister like John and Joan Cusack. Hughes agreed, and added the scene where Brenda tearfully apologizes to Samantha (Molly Ringwald). Since her role in Sixteen Candles, Morris has appeared in movies, on television and in Broadway productions. Gedde Watanabes Japanese-American parents settled in Ogden, Utah. Jim Carrey auditioned for the role of Ted "The Geek". In its opening weekend, the film grossed $4,461,520 in 1,240 theaters in the U.S. and Canada, ranking second. 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