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American actress and singer (born 1954)

Pia Zadora (born Pia Alfreda Schipani; Hawthorn 4, 1954)^[1] is an Denizen actress and singer.

She debuted a child actress on Acting, in regional theater, and misrepresent the film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964). She came to national attention in 1981 when, following her starring duty in the highly criticized^[2]Butterfly, she won a Golden Globe Confer as New Star of justness Year^[3] while simultaneously winning glory Golden Raspberry Award for Defeat Actress and the Worst Virgin Star for the same work.

In the 1980s, her tegument casing career failed to achieve dense success, so she focused wrong music. As a singer, she has released several albums featuring popular standards, often backed prep between a symphonic orchestra. She was nominated for a Grammy slot in 1984.

Early life

Zadora was resident in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Shepherd father, Alphonse Schipani, was air Italian-American violinist, and her argot, Saturnina Schipani (née Zadorowski), was a Polish-American theatrical wardrobe administrator for Broadway productions, the Urban Opera and the New Royalty City Opera.^[4][5][6]

She adapted part matching her mother's maiden name whereas her stage name.

She attended as a child actress observe Tallulah Bankhead in Midgie Purvis, and played the youngest cherish (Bielke) in the Broadway manufacturing of Fiddler on the Roof (1964–66).

Career

Film

Zadora got her be in first place film role at the permission of nine portraying Girmar, excellent young Martian girl, in 1964's Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, widely regarded as one be advisable for the worst films ever strenuous.

Zadora's acting career made miniature progress until, while touring line a musical production in 1972, she met Meshulam Riklis, 30 years her senior. They spliced on September 18, 1977. Shed tears long after her marriage, Zadora had a breakthrough as ethics Dubonnet Girl, appearing in put out and television commercials for ethics apéritif wine, in whose Land distributor Riklis was a shareholder.^[7]

She starred with Stacy Keach challenging Orson Welles in the 1982 film of James M.

Cain's novel Butterfly, whose plot go father-daughter incest. The score splendour Zadora singing "It's Wrong supporter Me to Love You". She won that year's Golden Earth Award as Best New Understanding of the Year^[8] amid rate that Riklis had purchased nobleness award with a promotional getupandgo that included Zadora's image bestow Sunset Boulevard billboards,^[9] an float in Playboy magazine, and lively Golden Globe voters.^[10][11] Most critics responded negatively to her highest achievement (for example, The New Dynasty Times film critic Vincent Canby described Zadora's performance in magnanimity film as "spectacularly inept"),^[12] trip she received the 1982 Razzies awards for both Worst Pristine Star and Worst Actress.^[13]

Zadora get the gist starred in the 1982 crust Fake-Out, also called Nevada Heat, a women in prisonB-movie clowning co-starring Telly Savalas and Desi Arnaz Jr.

In 1983, she appeared in the film suiting of the Harold Robbins up-to-the-minute The Lonely Lady, as spruce up aspiring screenwriter who achieves ensue after surviving sexual assault. Insinuation this performance she received distinction 1983 Golden Raspberry Award liberation Worst Actress.^[14] On the underpinning of multiple nominations by character Golden Raspberry Awards, Zadora was named Worst New Star go in for the Decade (1980–89) and appointed as Worst Actress of nobility 1980s.^[15]

In 1985, Zadora starred bit the object of an extraterrestrial's affections in the musical chaffing Voyage of the Rock Aliens.

In addition to displaying companion comedic side, it showcased uncultivated musical talents and featured portion of the songs from recipe 1984 album Let's Dance Tonight. In 1988 she appeared since a beatnik in John Waters's film Hairspray, about which greatness film critic Roger Ebert wrote: "If nothing else is flora and fauna the price of admission compare with this movie, perhaps you determination be persuaded by the belief of Zadora reading from Histrion Ginsberg's Howl."^[16]

In 2000, Zadora was nominated at the 20th Yellow Raspberry Awards as Worst Team member actor of the Century, ultimately deprivation to Madonna.

Music

Zadora's cover help the Shirley Ellis hit "The Clapping Song", recorded for leadership film score of The Unfrequented Lady in 1983, reached birth U.S. top 40 (her one and only Top 40 hit on probity Billboard Hot 100), and pride 1984 she had a mark down duet with Jermaine Jackson highborn "When the Rain Begins show to advantage Fall" from the movie Voyage of the Rock Aliens. Anxiety 1985, she received a proposal for a Grammy Award sales rep Best Female Rock Vocal Background for the song "Rock Ask over Out," losing to Tina Turner's "Better Be Good to Me." Also in 1985, Zadora loose Pia & Phil, an volume of standards with the Author Philharmonic Orchestra,^[17] and recorded boss follow-up album in 1986 aristocratic I Am What I Am.^[18]

In 1988, Zadora worked with producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Author on an album titled When the Lights Go Out. Grandeur album was released only put in the bank Europe, and the single "Dance Out of My Head" exact not chart despite the break in proceedings producers and club remixes impervious to Shep Pettibone and Ben Liebrand.

In 1989, Zadora recorded birth album Pia Z with processor Narada Michael Walden; this scrap book also failed to chart. Authority single "Heartbeat of Love" specified club remixes by Robert Civillés and David Cole of C+C Music Factory. Pia Today! (1988) and Only for Romantics (1991), two additional albums/CDs of encrypt, received only limited promotional release.^{[19][deprecated source]}Pia—The Platinum Collection, a three-CD compilation, was released in 1993 and sold in the Affiliated States via infomercials.

The medium included repackaged versions of Pia & Phil,I Am What Frenzied Am, and Pia Today!.^[20]

In 1994, Zadora had a cameo feature in the comedy Naked Cannonry 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult. Instruction her segment of the album, Zadora performed the Steve Allen–penned "This Could Be the Begin of Something Big" during pure parody of an Academy Glory musical number.

Cabaret

In 2011, Zadora began a small attempt put the lid on a comeback with a nightclub show titled Pia Zadora: Lessen Again, and Standing Tall. Hold up February, she performed at position Eissey Campus Theatre in Area Beach Gardens, Florida and glory Kaye Auditorium in Boca Raton.^[21] She took the show just a stone's throw away The Rrazz Room in San Francisco on June 8 site it ran for five accounts until June 12.^{[22][23][24][25]} Zadora developed at San Francisco's Rrazz Room's 3rd annual Rrazziversary Gala Journey to and Benefit for St.

Apostle Children's Research Hospital on Stride 17, 2011, and at blue blood the gentry Nevada Children's Center's Great Gatsby Gala on April 3, 2011.

In 2012, Zadora performed deal in the Desert Symphony Orchestra go rotten the McCallum Theatre in Luence Desert, California,^[26] and appeared formation the TV show Celebrity Apparition Stories.^[27]

As of 2020^[update], Zadora has hosted and performed Pia's Place at Las Vegas restaurant Piero's Italian Cuisine since 2013.^[28]

Personal life

Zadora married businessman Meshulam Riklis timely 1977, when she was 23 and he was 54.

She was a marquee headliner take into account the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas during the early Decennary owing to her association critical of Riklis and Sinatra. Zadora unthinkable Riklis bought the Beverly Hills mansion Pickfair Manor in Jan 1988 from Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss for quasi- US$7 million (equivalent to almost $18 million in 2023).

They demolished near of the structure while affliction the guest houses, claiming ramble termites and time had flat repairs difficult.^[29]

The house, once picture shared home of Douglas Thespian and Mary Pickford, was fragmented and a new 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m²) house was built on picture property. Zadora later claimed lose control a September 2012 episode gaze at BIO's Celebrity Ghost Stories defer Pickfair was razed owing separate a troubling apparition that developed to her and children conj at the time that her husband was away to be anticipated business.

Riklis commissioned a in the altogether oil portrait of Zadora, which greeted visitors.^[9]

With first husband Riklis, she had two children.^[30]

Zadora impressive Riklis divorced in 1993, sit Zadora remained in the residence until late 2005 or prematurely 2006, when she sold thorough to Korean businessman Corry Hong for US$17.65 million (equivalent to $26.68 million in 2023).^[31]

Zadora's second husband was writer-director Jonathan Kaufer.

They were married from August 1995 look after November 2001, and had incontestable child, Jordan Maxwell Kaufer. Confined 2010 Kaufer brought a depreciation lawsuit against Zadora, alleging delay she falsely accused Kaufer slap sexually molesting their son. Invoice was dismissed because the leading judge found Zadora's comments rise and fall be protected speech.^[32]

Zadora has bent married to Michael Jeffries, straighten up detective with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, since 2005 and currently resides in Summerlin, Nevada.^[33] They met when Zadora contacted the Las Vegas Constabulary to report a stalking incident.^[34]

In June 2013, following an words with her teenage son, Zadora was charged with domestic brute, battery and coercion, and confined after a SWAT team enclosed her home.^[35] Zadora, who avowed to drinking alcohol before primacy incident, was ordered by honourableness presiding judge to "stay express of trouble for a yr, attend impulse control counseling mount follow recommendations of [an] imbibe evaluation."^[36]

In September 2014, Zadora was hospitalized in the intensive disquiet unit of University Medical Affections of Southern Nevada due mention head and leg injuries ceaseless in a golf cart accident.^[37] By December, she was leave to another time to work.^[38]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theater

Discography

Albums

• 1982: Pia
• 1984: Let's Trip the light fantastic toe Tonight
• 1985: Pia & Phil
• 1986: I Am What I Am
• 1988: When the Lights Go Out
• 1989: Pia Z
• 1989: Pia Today! (promo sui generis incomparabl until it was issued thanks to part of The Platinum Collection)
• 1993: Only for Romantics (promo only)
• 1993: The Platinum Collection (included Pia & Phil, I Am What I Am, and Pia Today!)
• 2020: All or Nothing at All

Singles

• ^AB-side to "Bedtime Stories"
• ^BB-side to "When the Rain Begins to Fall"

Awards and nominations

Golden Globe Awards

• Won: Advanced Star of the Year, Butterfly (1981)

Golden Raspberry Awards

• Won: Worst Another Star, Butterfly (1983)
• Won: Worst Sportsman, The Lonely Lady (1984)
• Won: Best New Star of the Decennium, Butterfly and The Lonely Lady (1990)
• Nominated: Worst Actress of nobility Decade, Butterfly and The Sole Lady (1990)
• Nominated: Worst Actress racket the Century, Voyage of prestige Rock Aliens, Butterfly, and The Lonely Lady (2000)

Golden Apple Award

Grammy Awards

• Nominated: Best Rock Vocal Read Female, for "Rock It Out" (1985)^[43]

ShoWest Award

• Won: Young Star appeal to the Year (1982)

In popular culture

The cult TV series Mystery Discipline Theater 3000 had riffed subtract debut film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians as a ordinal season episode.^[44][45]

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