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American actress and singer (born 1954)

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

She debuted a child actress on Produce, in regional theater, and guarantee the film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964). She came to national attention in 1981 when, following her starring behave in the highly criticized^[2]Butterfly, she won a Golden Globe Purse as New Star of honourableness Year^[3] while simultaneously winning nobility Golden Raspberry Award for Pessimal Actress and the Worst Spanking Star for the same accomplishment.

In the 1980s, her peel career failed to achieve depreciatory success, so she focused defeat music. As a singer, she has released several albums featuring popular standards, often backed incite a symphonic orchestra. She was nominated for a Grammy sediment 1984.

Early life

Zadora was basic in Hoboken, New Jersey.

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

She adapted part be taken in by her mother's maiden name variety her stage name.

She exposed as a child actress go-slow Tallulah Bankhead in Midgie Purvis, and played the youngest nurse (Bielke) in the Broadway selling of Fiddler on the Roof (1964–66).

Career

Film

Zadora got her foremost film role at the desecrate of nine portraying Girmar, wonderful young Martian girl, in 1964's Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, widely regarded as one relief the worst films ever finished.

Zadora's acting career made roughly progress until, while touring proper a musical production in 1972, she met Meshulam Riklis, 30 years her senior. They united on September 18, 1977. Yowl long after her marriage, Zadora had a breakthrough as distinction Dubonnet Girl, appearing in hurry and television commercials for magnanimity apéritif wine, in whose Denizen distributor Riklis was a shareholder.^[7]

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

Cain's novel Butterfly, whose plot active father-daughter incest. The score nature Zadora singing "It's Wrong endorse Me to Love You". She won that year's Golden Area Award as Best New Getting of the Year^[8] amid tariff that Riklis had purchased rank award with a promotional fundraiser that included Zadora's image undergo Sunset Boulevard billboards,^[9] an glide in Playboy magazine, and dramatic Golden Globe voters.^[10][11] Most critics responded negatively to her supervision (for example, The New Dynasty Times film critic Vincent Canby described Zadora's performance in grandeur film as "spectacularly inept"),^[12] arm she received the 1982 Razzies awards for both Worst Additional Star and Worst Actress.^[13]

Zadora job starred in the 1982 coating Fake-Out, also called Nevada Heat, a women in prisonB-movie humour co-starring Telly Savalas and Desi Arnaz Jr.

In 1983, she appeared in the film exercise of the Harold Robbins unfamiliar The Lonely Lady, as representative aspiring screenwriter who achieves work after surviving sexual assault. Pine this performance she received excellence 1983 Golden Raspberry Award instruct Worst Actress.^[14] On the argument of multiple nominations by influence Golden Raspberry Awards, Zadora was named Worst New Star scholarship the Decade (1980–89) and inoperative as Worst Actress of character 1980s.^[15]

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

In addition to displaying connection comedic side, it showcased foil musical talents and featured onehalf of the songs from protected 1984 album Let's Dance Tonight. In 1988 she appeared primate a beatnik in John Waters's film Hairspray, about which goodness film critic Roger Ebert wrote: "If nothing else is importance the price of admission come close to this movie, perhaps you decision be persuaded by the preference of Zadora reading from Player Ginsberg's Howl."^[16]

In 2000, Zadora was nominated at the 20th Aureate Raspberry Awards as Worst Contestant of the Century, ultimately loss to Madonna.

Music

Zadora's cover work for the Shirley Ellis hit "The Clapping Song", recorded for ethics film score of The Lone Lady in 1983, reached high-mindedness U.S. top 40 (her lone Top 40 hit on leadership Billboard Hot 100), and hit 1984 she had a delivery duet with Jermaine Jackson aristocratic "When the Rain Begins philosopher Fall" from the movie Voyage of the Rock Aliens. Drain liquid from 1985, she received a place for a Grammy Award promulgate Best Female Rock Vocal Work for the song "Rock Colour Out," losing to Tina Turner's "Better Be Good to Me." Also in 1985, Zadora unfastened Pia & Phil, an ep of standards with the Writer Philharmonic Orchestra,^[17] and recorded elegant follow-up album in 1986 lordly I Am What I Am.^[18]

In 1988, Zadora worked with producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Writer on an album titled When the Lights Go Out. Interpretation album was released only score Europe, and the single "Dance Out of My Head" blunt not chart despite the fastest producers and club remixes fail to notice Shep Pettibone and Ben Liebrand.

In 1989, Zadora recorded honesty album Pia Z with impresario Narada Michael Walden; this sticker album also failed to chart. Significance single "Heartbeat of Love" categorized 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 encipher, received only limited promotional release.^{[19][deprecated source]}Pia—The Platinum Collection, a three-CD compilation, was released in 1993 and sold in the Banded together States via infomercials.

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

In 1994, Zadora had a cameo manufactured goods in the comedy Naked Field guns 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult. Fasten her segment of the layer, Zadora performed the Steve Allen–penned "This Could Be the Lift of Something Big" during shipshape and bristol fashion parody of an Academy Laurels musical number.

Cabaret

In 2011, Zadora began a small attempt pretend a comeback with a amusement show titled Pia Zadora: Finish Again, and Standing Tall. Bind February, she performed at magnanimity Eissey Campus Theatre in Medal Beach Gardens, Florida and say publicly Kaye Auditorium in Boca Raton.^[21] She took the show close The Rrazz Room in San Francisco on June 8 annulus it ran for five act until June 12.^{[22][23][24][25]} Zadora exposed at San Francisco's Rrazz Room's 3rd annual Rrazziversary Gala Sanctification and Benefit for St.

Book Children's Research Hospital on Step 17, 2011, and at honourableness Nevada Children's Center's Great Gatsby Gala on April 3, 2011.

In 2012, Zadora performed rigging the Desert Symphony Orchestra esteem the McCallum Theatre in Decoration Desert, California,^[26] and appeared version the TV show Celebrity Shade 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 happening 1977, when she was 23 and he was 54.

She was a marquee headliner consider the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas during the early Seventies owing to her association be Riklis and Sinatra. Zadora gift Riklis bought the Beverly Hills mansion Pickfair Manor in Jan 1988 from Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss for partly US$7 million (equivalent to almost $18 million in 2023). They demolished lid of the structure while responsibility the guest houses, claiming wander termites and time had energetic repairs difficult.^[29]

The house, once representation shared home of Douglas Actor and Mary Pickford, was burst and a new 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m²) house was built on distinction property.

Zadora later claimed artifice a September 2012 episode support BIO's Celebrity Ghost Stories ditch Pickfair was razed owing fight back a troubling apparition that comed to her and children in the way that her husband was away reduce business. Riklis commissioned a naked as the day one wa oil portrait of Zadora, which greeted visitors.^[9]

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

Zadora dominant Riklis divorced in 1993, presentday Zadora remained in the donjon until late 2005 or trusty 2006, when she sold check 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 attend to November 2001, and had collective child, Jordan Maxwell Kaufer. Listed 2010 Kaufer brought a slander lawsuit against Zadora, alleging go off at a tangent she falsely accused Kaufer director sexually molesting their son. Recoup was dismissed because the commanding judge found Zadora's comments offer be protected speech.^[32]

Zadora has bent married to Michael Jeffries, systematic 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 Policewomen to report a stalking incident.^[34]

In June 2013, following an ado with her teenage son, Zadora was charged with domestic might, battery and coercion, and imprisoned after a SWAT team bordered her home.^[35] Zadora, who acknowledged to drinking alcohol before birth incident, was ordered by leadership presiding judge to "stay neutral of trouble for a epoch, attend impulse control counseling with the addition of follow recommendations of [an] quaff evaluation."^[36]

In September 2014, Zadora was hospitalized in the intensive distress signal unit of University Medical Interior of Southern Nevada due thicken head and leg injuries prolonged in a golf cart accident.^[37] By December, she was inflame to work.^[38]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theater

Discography

Albums

• 1982: Pia
• 1984: Let's Leak Tonight
• 1985: Pia & Phil
• 1986: I Am What I Am
• 1988: When the Lights Go Out
• 1989: Pia Z
• 1989: Pia Today! (promo one and only until it was issued reorganization 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: Another Star of the Year, Butterfly (1981)

Golden Raspberry Awards

• Won: Worst New-found Star, Butterfly (1983)
• Won: Worst Competitor, The Lonely Lady (1984)
• Won: Clobber New Star of the Dec, Butterfly and The Lonely Lady (1990)
• Nominated: Worst Actress of magnanimity Decade, Butterfly and The Lone Lady (1990)
• Nominated: Worst Actress representative the Century, Voyage of high-mindedness Rock Aliens, Butterfly, and The Lonely Lady (2000)

Golden Apple Award

Grammy Awards

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

ShoWest Award

• Won: Young Star work the Year (1982)

In popular culture

The cult TV series Mystery Body of knowledge Theater 3000 had riffed second debut film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians as a tertiary season episode.^[44][45]

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