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Pretty in Pink (1986) Annie Potts: Iona. Showing all 24 items. Jump to: Photos (12) Quotes (12) Photos. Quotes. Duckie : You know what an older women does for me? Iona : Changes your diapers? Duckie : Touché. Iona : Does he have - strong lips? Andie : How can you tell? Iona : Do you feel it in your knees? Andie : I felt it everywhere.
- It’S One of Those Cult Films That Was A Success from The Get-Go
- The Role of Andie Was Written Specifically For Molly Ringwald
- Jon Cryer Was Not The First Choice to Play Duckie, However
- And The Role of Iona Could Have Been Played by Anjelica Huston
- James Spader Relished Playing The Bad Guy
- Sci-Fi Fans Might Recognize Benny
- And You Might Also Recognize Benny’s Dark-Haired Friend
- Kristy Swanson's Character Had A Name
- It Was One of The Final Films of Alexa Kenin
- There’S A Yo Gabba Gabba Connection
With a lot of films that gain obsessive followings, they start small and grow big long after they've ended their theatrical run. This is not the case with Pretty in Pink, which made $40 million on a comparatively teensy $9 million budget. But more than that, it was also well-reviewed. Even today, it holds a 79 percent "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomat...
Pretty in Pink was Ringwald's third collaboration with John Hughes, following Sixteen Candles in 1984 and The Breakfast Club in 1985. Though Hughes didn't direct Pretty — it was helmed instead by Howard Deutch, who also directed Some Kind of Wonderful — he'd spent enough time with Ringwald that he knew she was the only choice to play the part. Ring...
Fresh off his turn as the super brain in The Breakfast Club, which was released one year earlier, Anthony Michael Hall was worried about being typecast and turned down the role of Duckie even though it was written specifically for him. Hall says he also turned down the lead role in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which Hughes had also written for him.
Allegedly Huston was offered the part of Andie's cool girl mentor but opted not to take it. In the end, Hughes decided the part should go to Annie Potts, whom he enjoyed as Janine in Ghostbusters.
Spader played Steff, boyfriend to stuck-up Benny (Kate Vernon). During an interview at the MTV premiere of Pretty in Pink, Spader gets asked if he likes playing a villain. "It's always fun playing the bad guy," he admits. And this has held true in his career ever since.
Though Kate Vernon has acted steadily since Pretty in Pink, there's one role that might surprise some readers: She also played deep space sexpot Ellen Tigh on Battlestar Galactica. Vernon, by the way, is the daughter of actor John Vernon, who played the dean in Animal House, which was also written by Hughes.
That's a young Gina Gershon in one of her first film roles, though she'd played a dancer in Girls Just Want to Have Funthe previous year.
The foxy blonde making eyes with Duckie at the end of the film? She's listed in the credits as "Duckette."
Kenin played Jenna, Andie's gym buddy, but Kenin didn't live to see the film's release. The actress was found dead in her Manhattan apartment on Sept. 10, 1985. No cause of death was ever publicly released, and The New York Times obituarysimply states that "the cause of death was not immediately known."
The would-be shoplifter whom Iona nails in the face with a staple gun is Christian Jacobs, a man familiar to some as the lead singer of the Aquabats and to others as the creator of the kid's show Yo Gabba Gabba.
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Pretty in Pink is a 1986 American teen romantic comedy-drama film about love and social cliques in American high schools in the 1980s. A cult classic, [3] [4] it is commonly identified as a "Brat Pack" film. It was directed by Howard Deutch, produced by Lauren Shuler Donner, and written by John Hughes, who also served as co-executive producer.
- $40.5 million (US)
- Michael Gore
- $9 million
- Lauren Shuler
Pretty in Pink: Directed by Howard Deutch. With Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts. A poor girl must choose between the affections of dating her childhood sweetheart or a rich but sensitive playboy.
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Producer. Soundtrack. IMDbPro Starmeter Top 500 57. Play trailer 1:08. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) 25 Videos. 99+ Photos. Annie Potts is an American film, television, and stage actress. She is known for her roles in popular 1980s films such as Ghostbusters (1984) and Pretty in Pink (1986).
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Aug 26, 2007 · Pretty in Pink - Iona Annie Potts. Extras off the 20th Anniv. dvd of Pretty in Pink movie. This clip is about the character Iona, played by Annie Potts.
Apr 24, 2024 · Apr 24, 2024. This year marks the 38th anniversary of the teen classic Pretty in Pink, which was released on Feb. 28, 1986. We catch up with the actors in the iconic Gen X movie named for a...
