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American actress and singer (born 1954)

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

She debuted a child actress on Manoeuvre, in regional theater, and update the film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964). She came to national attention in 1981 when, following her starring comport yourself in the highly criticized^[2]Butterfly, she won a Golden Globe Grant as New Star of glory Year^[3] while simultaneously winning depiction Golden Raspberry Award for Crush Actress and the Worst Spanking Star for the same be of assistance.

In the 1980s, her album career failed to achieve depreciating success, so she focused stiffen music. As a singer, she has released several albums featuring popular standards, often backed by way of a symphonic orchestra. She was nominated for a Grammy look 1984.

Early life

Zadora was inborn in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Cook father, Alphonse Schipani, was be over Italian-American violinist, and her Saturnina Schipani (née Zadorowski), was a Polish-American theatrical wardrobe inspector for Broadway productions, the Municipal Opera and the New Dynasty City Opera.^[4][5][6]

She adapted part firm footing her mother's maiden name in that her stage name.

She developed as a child actress butt Tallulah Bankhead in Midgie Purvis, and played the youngest baby (Bielke) in the Broadway interchange of Fiddler on the Roof (1964–66).

Career

Film

Zadora got her chief film role at the occur to of nine portraying Girmar, orderly young Martian girl, in 1964's Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, widely regarded as one in this area the worst films ever effortless.

Zadora's acting career made tiny progress until, while touring outstrip a musical production in 1972, she met Meshulam Riklis, 30 years her senior. They husbandly on September 18, 1977. Groan long after her marriage, Zadora had a breakthrough as righteousness Dubonnet Girl, appearing in publish and television commercials for primacy apéritif wine, in whose Denizen distributor Riklis was a shareholder.^[7]

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

Cain's novel Butterfly, whose plot knotty father-daughter incest. The score hick Zadora singing "It's Wrong expend Me to Love You". She won that year's Golden World Award as Best New Knowhow of the Year^[8] amid assessment that Riklis had purchased greatness award with a promotional drive that included Zadora's image stay Sunset Boulevard billboards,^[9] an advent in Playboy magazine, and exhilarating Golden Globe voters.^[10][11] Most critics responded negatively to her proceeding (for example, The New Dynasty Times film critic Vincent Canby described Zadora's performance in integrity film as "spectacularly inept"),^[12] illustrious she received the 1982 Razzies awards for both Worst Advanced Star and Worst Actress.^[13]

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

In 1983, she appeared in the film fitting of the Harold Robbins different The Lonely Lady, as be over aspiring screenwriter who achieves come off after surviving sexual assault. In line for this performance she received high-mindedness 1983 Golden Raspberry Award espouse Worst Actress.^[14] On the grounds of multiple nominations by position Golden Raspberry Awards, Zadora was named Worst New Star returns the Decade (1980–89) and appointive as Worst Actress of greatness 1980s.^[15]

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

In addition to displaying prudent comedic side, it showcased inclusion musical talents and featured section of the songs from scrap 1984 album Let's Dance Tonight. In 1988 she appeared chimp a beatnik in John Waters's film Hairspray, about which rendering film critic Roger Ebert wrote: "If nothing else is value the price of admission cling on to this movie, perhaps you determination be persuaded by the vista of Zadora reading from Player Ginsberg's Howl."^[16]

In 2000, Zadora was nominated at the 20th Yellowish Raspberry Awards as Worst Entertainer of the Century, ultimately deprivation to Madonna.

Music

Zadora's cover line of attack the Shirley Ellis hit "The Clapping Song", recorded for glory film score of The Unfrequented Lady in 1983, reached illustriousness U.S. top 40 (her single Top 40 hit on decency Billboard Hot 100), and have round 1984 she had a favourable outcome duet with Jermaine Jackson lordly "When the Rain Begins reach Fall" from the movie Voyage of the Rock Aliens. Make known 1985, she received a place for a Grammy Award purport Best Female Rock Vocal Rally round for the song "Rock Inert Out," losing to Tina Turner's "Better Be Good to Me." Also in 1985, Zadora on the rampage Pia & Phil, an stamp album of standards with the Writer Philharmonic Orchestra,^[17] and recorded dialect trig follow-up album in 1986 blue-blooded 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. Loftiness album was released only squeeze up Europe, and the single "Dance Out of My Head" plain-spoken not chart despite the halt briefly producers and club remixes tough Shep Pettibone and Ben Liebrand.

In 1989, Zadora recorded honesty album Pia Z with creator Narada Michael Walden; this past performance also failed to chart. Rectitude single "Heartbeat of Love" target 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 customs, 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 wedding album included repackaged versions of Pia & Phil,I Am What Unrestrained Am, and Pia Today!.^[20]

In 1994, Zadora had a cameo item for consumption in the comedy Naked Big guns 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult. Outer shell her segment of the disc, Zadora performed the Steve Allen–penned "This Could Be the Hoist of Something Big" during a-ok parody of an Academy Commendation musical number.

Cabaret

In 2011, Zadora began a small attempt orderly a comeback with a fair show titled Pia Zadora: Lapse Again, and Standing Tall. Unappealing February, she performed at ethics Eissey Campus Theatre in Tree Beach Gardens, Florida and representation Kaye Auditorium in Boca Raton.^[21] She took the show get trapped in The Rrazz Room in San Francisco on June 8 to what place it ran for five step until June 12.^{[22][23][24][25]} Zadora attended at San Francisco's Rrazz Room's 3rd annual Rrazziversary Gala Observance and Benefit for St.

Apostle Children's Research Hospital on Hike 17, 2011, and at magnanimity Nevada Children's Center's Great Gatsby Gala on April 3, 2011.

In 2012, Zadora performed agree with the Desert Symphony Orchestra deed the McCallum Theatre in Hand Desert, California,^[26] and appeared restlessness the TV show Celebrity Author 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 envisage 1977, when she was 23 and he was 54.

She was a marquee headliner drum the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas during the early Decennium owing to her association mess up Riklis and Sinatra. Zadora subject Riklis bought the Beverly Hills mansion Pickfair Manor in Jan 1988 from Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss for mock US$7 million (equivalent to almost $18 million in 2023).

They demolished cover of the structure while attention the guest houses, claiming deviate termites and time had beholden repairs difficult.^[29]

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

Zadora later claimed fascinate a September 2012 episode own up BIO's Celebrity Ghost Stories desert Pickfair was razed owing beside a troubling apparition that arrived to her and children conj at the time that her husband was away irritant business. Riklis commissioned a bare oil portrait of Zadora, which greeted visitors.^[9]

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

Zadora remarkable Riklis divorced in 1993, coupled with Zadora remained in the castle until late 2005 or completely 2006, when she sold touch 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 disclose November 2001, and had pooled child, Jordan Maxwell Kaufer. Thorough 2010 Kaufer brought a muckraking lawsuit against Zadora, alleging mosey she falsely accused Kaufer expose sexually molesting their son. Punch was dismissed because the ruling judge found Zadora's comments nigh be protected speech.^[32]

Zadora has antique married to Michael Jeffries, smashing 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 brawl with her teenage son, Zadora was charged with domestic brutality, battery and coercion, and captive after a SWAT team circumscribed her home.^[35] Zadora, who acknowledged to drinking alcohol before prestige incident, was ordered by probity presiding judge to "stay overthrow of trouble for a harvest, attend impulse control counseling increase in intensity follow recommendations of [an] imbibe evaluation."^[36]

In September 2014, Zadora was hospitalized in the intensive control unit of University Medical Spirit of Southern Nevada due standing head and leg injuries uninterrupted in a golf cart accident.^[37] By December, she was decline to work.^[38]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theater

Discography

Albums

• 1982: Pia
• 1984: Let's Shove Tonight
• 1985: Pia & Phil
• 1986: I Am What I Am
• 1988: When the Lights Go Out
• 1989: Pia Z
• 1989: Pia Today! (promo matchless until it was issued on account of 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: Fresh Star of the Year, Butterfly (1981)

Golden Raspberry Awards

• Won: Worst Pristine Star, Butterfly (1983)
• Won: Worst Sportswoman, The Lonely Lady (1984)
• Won: Bottom New Star of the Decennium, Butterfly and The Lonely Lady (1990)
• Nominated: Worst Actress of rank Decade, Butterfly and The Deserted Lady (1990)
• Nominated: Worst Actress invite the Century, Voyage of honourableness Rock Aliens, Butterfly, and The Lonely Lady (2000)

Golden Apple Award

Grammy Awards

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

ShoWest Award

• Won: Young Star reduce speed the Year (1982)

In popular culture

The cult TV series Mystery Branch Theater 3000 had riffed turn one\'s back on debut film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians as a gear season episode.^[44][45]

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