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Aug 25, 2017 · In "Beaches," she plays C.C. Bloom as a child, a fast-talking, song-belting child performer who runs into a rich little girl named Hillary (played by Marcie Leeds, as shown in the picture) on the...
Dec 24, 2018 · Mayim Bialik celebrates 30th anniversary of 'Beaches' with photo tribute. "Beaches" was originally released in 1988, and we haven't stopped crying since. One of its co-stars, Mayim...
- Mayim Bialik Didn’T Get to Do Her Own Singing
- The Film’S Director Makes A Cameo
- Lainie Kazan only Accepted The Role For The Chance to Work with Bette Midler
- There Wasn’T Much Difference in Age Between Kazan and Midler
- Barbara Hershey Underwent A Cosmetic Procedure to Prepare For The Role
- Sets from Another Midler Film Were Reused in Beaches
- A Cut Storyline Revealed CC’s Husband Was A Paedophile
- Shelley Winters Turned Down The Role of CC’s Mother
- One Trailer For The Film Was Guilty of False Advertising
- The Film Was Almost called Remember Me
Getting to play C.C. in Beaches was a big break for young actress Mayim Bialik. Aged only 11 at the time, Bialik had the advantage of looking a lot like her adult counterpart Bette Midler and, similar to Midler, Bialik was also a triple threat: an actress, a dancer, and a singer. Unfortunately for Bialik, her singing voice proved to be a bit of a s...
At one point during Beaches, we see a poster for an upcoming production entitled Sizzle 76. On the poster, it states that it’s a Garry Marshall production; Marshall being the director of Beaches. Prior to his film career, Marshall was best known for creating the beloved 50s nostalgia sitcom Happy Days. After Beaches, Marshall enjoyed his biggest mo...
Actress Lainie Kazan, who has since become better known for the My Big Fat Greek Wedding movies, co-stars in Beaches as Leona Bloom. Kazan has a long history of stage work on Broadway and elsewhere, and made her film debut two decades before Beaches in 1968. However, initially, the American actress was not interested in taking the role of C.C.’s mo...
Lainie Kazan was born in May 1940, which means she was 48 when Beaches opened in December 1988. Meanwhile, her screen daughter Bette Midler was born in December 1945, making her 43 at the time of the film’s release. You don’t need to be a skilled mathematician to note that this is an age gap of only five years. This being the case, Kazan and Midler...
Beaches is set over the course of 30 years, following friends C.C. and Hillary from childhood to adulthood. For the scenes in which the characters are youngest, Mayim Bialik and Marcie Leeds played C.C. and Hillary. Later on in the film, however, Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey simply play their younger selves. Hershey, who was 40 at the time, wen...
As well as playing the lead role, Bette Midler was also one of Beaches’ producers. Therefore, it makes sense that the movie also re-uses some sets from an earlier Midler movie. Earlier in 1988, Midler starred alongside Lily Tomlin as two sets of twins, in the comedy Big Business. As production on the two films was close together, they wound up hold...
Not everything from the Beaches book made it onto the big screen. One particularly sensitive story thread from Iris Rainer Dart’s 1985 novel was left out of the movie. The plotline in question involves the character of John Pierce, husband of Midler’s C.C. The filmmakers opted to omit the novel’s shocking revelation that John, played by actor John ...
Given that she was just a mere five years older than Bette Midler, Lanie Kazan wasn’t the most obvious choice to play C.C.’s mother. However, Kazan was not the only actress under consideration for the part. Another person in the running was long-standing Hollywood mainstay Shelley Winters. With a career dating back to the early 1940s, Winters was 6...
The theatrical trailer for Beaches promoted the film off the back of its leading ladies. And yet, whoever edited the trailer was either being liberal with the truth or didn’t know much about the film’s two stars. Midway through, that distinctive 80s movie trailer narrator guy tells us that Beaches stars “Academy Award nominees” Bette Midler and Bar...
Sometimes, a movie title proves so iconic that it’s hard to imagine they ever considered calling it anything else. There are some extreme examples, such as when Back to the Futurewas almost renamed Spaceman From Pluto. In the case of Beaches, the alternate title they almost went with is not nearly so outlandish. For some time, the film was set to b...
May 12, 2023 · The Big Bang Theory alum shared a throwback clip on Instagram from her guest appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show in 1988 promoting Beaches, where she sang "The Glory of Love" for the host.
Dec 21, 2018 · When we first see young CC, she’s smoking a cigarette under the boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ, a scene actually filmed at Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach. “I didn’t know how to light a cigarette,” says...
Mar 4, 2016 · Mayim Bialik reflects on her time making the film Beaches, working with industry veterans and how it launched her career. || This clip originally appeared i...
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