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  1. Desperately Seeking Susan. Desperately Seeking Susan is a 1985 American comedy-drama film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Rosanna Arquette, Aidan Quinn and Madonna. Set in New York City, the plot involves the interaction between two women – a bored housewife and a bohemian drifter – linked by various messages in the personals ...

    • A French Film Influenced The Screenplay For Desperately Seeking Susan.
    • Susan Seidelman Convinced The Studio to Cast Madonna.
    • The Original Script Had A Different Ending.
    • Seidelman Directed Madonna and Rosanna Arquette differently.
    • Madonna Became A Superstar Before Filming Wrapped.
    • The Studio Wasn't Sure If Madonna's Newfound Fame Was A Good thing.
    • The Filmmakers only Had A Few Months to Edit The Movie.
    • “Into The Groove” Doesn’T Appear on The Film’S Soundtrack.
    • The Studio Didn’T Know How to Design The Movie Poster.
    • Desperately Seeking Susan Was Adapted Into A Short-Lived Musical.

    Leora Barish, who wrote the script for Desperately Seeking Susan, told Yahoo! that the screenplay was influenced by Jacques Rivette’s 1974 film Celine and Julie Go Boating. “I liked the way [the Rivette film] plays with reality in an offhanded, barely perceptible way,” Barish said. “[In Susan] the two women from different realms are curious about e...

    “I pulled for Madonna—I knew her from living downtown,” Seidelman told Yahoo!. “Studio execs had never heard of her, so [director of photography] Ed Lachman and I went to Union Square to shoot her audition reel. I remember someone walking by, pointing at her and saying, ‘That’s Cyndi Lauper.’” Based on Orion liking the audition tape and the co-foun...

    The film ends (SPOILER!) with Roberta staying with Dez, played by Aidan Quinn, and Susan with Jim, played by Robert Joy. “The original ending was that they didn’t go off with the guys—they go off together on an adventure, and you see them on camels in the desert, in the Sahara. “Without the guys,” Arquette told Vulture. “I think that ending is such...

    “I deal with Rosanna as an actress and Madonna as a personality,” Seidelman explained of her different directing styles for the two leads. “With Rosanna, I discuss character—and she expands on it. With Madonna, it’s about trying to get her not to act, but to be.”

    Sire Records released Like a Virgin in November 1984, just a couple of weeks before Desperately Seeking Susan finished filming. “It was like watching a skyrocket,” Seidelman told Variety. “[Madonna] was on the cover of Rolling Stonemagazine and watching that rise so quickly was fascinating. By the time we were in our last week of shooting, there wa...

    Seidelman told the Los Angeles Timesthat the studio didn’t know whether Madonna’s newfound fame would help or hurt the film. “Would it work for us or against us? Ultimately, the movie had to stand up for itself. I think for whatever reason, it caught the zeitgeist of the time. I think that is what people responded to.”

    Filming wrapped around Thanksgiving 1984. “There was almost no post-production time,” unit publicist Reid Rosefelt told Yahoo!. “Orion wanted a March opening because people there thought Madonna’s career might be over by the time it came out.” Little did they know that Madonna was just getting started.

    Madonna had written the dancey “Into the Groove” for her friend Mark Kamins and even recorded a demo. However, she decided not to give him the song and instead contributed it to film. Despite the song playing at the end of the film, it doesn’t appear on the soundtrack, which features a score composed by Thomas Newman. On July 15, 1985, “Into the Gr...

    “Orion’s idea for posters included one with Madonna standing in front of a brick wall and Rosanna peeping over it,” co-producer Midge Sanford told Yahoo!. “Another had Madonna’s face reflected on a toaster and Rosanna’s on a piece of toast popping out. ‘We didn’t make Mr. Mom,’ I said. All the people in the room were middle-aged men who didn’t get ...

    On November 15, 2007, a stage musical version of Desperately Seeking Susan premiered at London’s Novello Theatre, with Blondie’s back catalogue used for the music. Due to a lack of ticket sales, the show closedone month later.

  2. Mar 29, 2019 · The movie borrows its title from a set of personal ads that attract the attention of a bored Jersey housewife (Rosanna Arquette) — a frustrated romantic whose kitchen TV screen seems...

  3. Earrings Are Key in ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’. And Madonna's iconic jewelry style is on full display in the 1985 film. by Marion Fasel. Believe it or not, the 1980s are back in style. The Spring ’18 runways were filled with neon colors, pouf skirts, power suits and mega shoulder pads. Logomania has taken hold once again.

  4. Apr 19, 2014 · A screwball comedy in an 80’s setting, Desperately Seeking Susan is a charming movie with memorable work from Rosanna Arquette and of course Madonna as the eponymous Susan along with a cool soundtrack and tons of kitsch appeal.

  5. Unfortunately a hooligan is after Susan for priceless Egyptian earrings (Will Patton). Mark Blum plays Roberta’s jerk husband and Aidan Quinn a new friend in the city. “Desperately Seeking Susan” (1985) is a quirky drama revolving around mistaken identity in an unlikely story.

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  7. Desperately Seeking Susan: Directed by Susan Seidelman. With Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum. A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself.

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