Goldie Hawn

Posted July 8, 200816 yr

When I wanted to post two pics I've scanned, I couldn't find her thread so I thought I should start one!

I like Goldie. Although she's not one of my favorite actresses - as I'm not much into comedy at all - I think she did some good movies. Especially I liked her in the 90s, had a lot of fun with her movies "death becomes her", "the first wives club" and "house sitter" - but anyway, she deserves her thread! :yes:

So, these are my scans from Vogue GER October 2005 ...

... and here's some little more info about her ...

Goldie Hawn

Goldie Jean Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American Academy Award-winning actress, director and producer. She is best known for starring in popular film comedies of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

Biography

Early life

Hawn was born Goldie Jean Hawn in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Laura (née Steinhoff), a jewelry shop/dance school owner, and Edward Rutledge Hawn, a band musician who played at major events in Washington. She has a sister, Patricia; a brother, Edward, died before she was born. She was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland. Hawn's father, a descendant of Edward Rutledge (a signer of the Declaration of Independence), was Presbyterian, and Hawn's mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Hungary; Hawn was raised in the Jewish religion.

Hawn began taking ballet and tap dance lessons at the age of three, and danced in the chorus of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo production of The Nutcracker in 1955. She made her stage debut in 1961, playing Juliet in a Virginia Stage Company production of Romeo and Juliet. By 1964, she ran and instructed a ballet school, having dropped out of American University, where she was majoring in drama. In 1964, Hawn, who graduated from Montgomery Blair High School (Class of 1963) , made her professional dancing debut in a production of Can-Can at the Texas Pavilion of the New York World's Fair. She began working as a professional dancer a year later, and appeared as a go-go dancer in New York City.

Career

1960s

Hawn began her acting career as a cast member of the short-lived situation comedy Good Morning, World during the 1967-1968 television season, her role being that of the girlfriend of a radio disc jockey, with a stereotypical "dumb blonde" personality. Her next role, which brought her to international attention, was as one of the regular cast members on the 1960s sketch comedy show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. On the show, she would often break out into high-pitched giggles in the middle of a joke, and deliver a polished performance a moment after. Noted equally for her chipper attitude as for her bikini and painted body, Hawn personified something of a 1960s "It" girl. This persona was parlayed into three popular film appearances in the late 1960s and early 1970s: Cactus Flower, There's a Girl in My Soup and Butterflies Are Free. She made her feature film debut in the 1968 The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (she was billed as Goldie Jeanne) in a bit role as a giggling dancer. Hawn won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in Cactus Flower (1969), which was her first supporting role and which co-starred Walter Matthau and Ingrid Bergman.

1970s

After Hawn's Academy Award win in April 1970 for Cactus Flower her film career took off. She starred in a string of above average and very successful comedies starting with There's a Girl in My Soup (1970), $ (1971), Butterflies Are Free (1972) and Shampoo (1975) as well as proving herself in the dramatic league with the satirical dramas The Girl from Petrovka and The Sugarland Express both in 1974. She also hosted two television specials: Pure Goldie in 1971 and The Goldie Hawn Special in 1978. The latter was a sort of comeback for Goldie who had been out of the spotlight for two years since the 1976 release of The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, while she was focusing on her marriage and the birth of her son. On the special she performed show tunes and comedy bits alongside comic legend George Burns, teen matinee idol Shaun Cassidy, popular television star John Ritter (during his days on Three's Company) and even the Harlem Globetrotters joined her for a montage. The special later went on to be nominated for a prime-time Emmy. This came four months before the feature film release of Foul Play which became a box office smash and revived Hawn's career in the film industry. The plot centred around an innocent woman in San Francisco who became mixed up in a murder plot. The film was noted for its use of "Hitchcock plagiarism" in that the plot was very similar to some of the late directors murder classics. Nevertheless, Hawn's next film, Mario Monicelli's Lovers and Liars (1979), was a box office bomb.

1980s

Hawn's popularity continued into the 1980's starting with Private Benjamin (1980) a comedy which not only starred Hawn but was also her foray into producing. Private Benjamin, which also starred Eileen Brennan and Armand Assante, garnered Hawn her second Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actress. Hawn's box office success continued with an assortment of pictures, including comedies like Seems Like Old Times (1980), Protocol (1984) and Wildcats (1986) (Hawn also served as executive producer on the latter two) and dramas like Best Friends (1982) and Swing Shift (1984). Hawn posed on the cover of Playboy in January, 1985 at the age of thirty-nine. The pictorial which went on to be one of Playboy's highest selling issues, featured Hawn on the cover, sitting in a martini glass, with her legs in the air, and wearing nothing but a white collar shirt, a loosened black tie and a pair of red stilettos. The headline read: "A SPARKLING PLAYBOY INTERVIEW WITH GOLDIE HAWN". The issue sparked controversy[who?] in that a woman going on forty could be a sex symbol and iconic enough to appear in the famed men's magazine - something that English beauty Joan Collins had pushed the envelope for when she appeared on the cover in December 1983 at the age of fifty. Hawn's last picture of the 1980's was opposite partner Kurt Russell (for the third time) in the 1987 comedy Overboard, a critical and box office disappointment which questioned the likability and bankability of the two paired together onscreen.

1990s

Her career slowed down after 1987, but was revived somewhat in 1990 with the action comedy Bird on a Wire, a critically panned but commercially successful picture that paired Hawn with action favorite Mel Gibson. The early 90's weren't particularly good to Hawn, with little success associated with the thriller Deceived (1991) or the drama CrissCross (1992). But her success in 1992 when she appeared opposite Bruce Willis and Meryl Streep in the film Death Becomes Her garnered her much attention. Following up that was HouseSitter (1992), a screwball comedy with Steve Martin - which again ventured into commercial and critical success. She was absent from the screen again for four years, while caring for her mother who died of cancer in 1994. She made her entry back into the film business with producing the satirical comedy Something to Talk About starring Julia Roberts and Dennis Quaid, as well as making her foray into directing with the television film Hope (1997) starring Christine Lahti and Jena Malone.

She returned to the screen again in 1996 as the ageing, alcoholic actress Elise Elliot in the financially and critically successful The First Wives Club, opposite Bette Midler and Diane Keaton, with whom she covered the Lesley Gore hit "You Don't Own Me" for the film's soundtrack. Hawn also performed a cover version of the Beatles' song, "A Hard Day's Night", on George Martin's 1998 album, In My Life. She continued her tenure in the 90's with Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You (1996) and reuniting with Steve Martin for the comedy The Out-of-Towners (1999), a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon hit. The film was critically panned and bombed at the box office.

2000s

In 2001 Hawn was reunited with former co-stars Warren Beatty (her co-star in $ and Shampoo) and Diane Keaton for the comedy Town & Country, a critical and financial fiasco. Budgeted at an estimated US$90 million, the film opened to little notice and grossed only $7 million in its North American theatrical run. As of 2008, her last film appearance was in the 2002 runaway hit The Banger Sisters, opposite Susan Sarandon and Geoffrey Rush.

In 2005, Hawn's autobiography, A Lotus Grows in the Mud, was published. Hawn claims that the book is not a Hollywood tell-all, but rather a memoir and record of what she has learned in her life so far. Hawn announced in an interview with AARP's magazine that her next film project would be called Ashes to Ashes and co-star her partner Kurt Russell. The film is about a New York widow who loses her late husband's ashes in India.

Personal life

Relationships and family

After her disastrous marriage to actor/director Gus Trikonis from 1969 to 1974 Hawn said she was not contemplating marriage again, even going as far to say in 1975 that: "I don't understand it." Although she seemed to change her mind a year later when she married Bill Hudson, of the Hudson Brothers, the two divorced in 1980 and have two children, Oliver Hudson (born 1976) and Kate Hudson (born 1979), both of whom are now noted actors.

Hawn has been in a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since 1983, when the two reconnected on the set of Swing Shift (they previously met while filming 1968's The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band). The couple have a son together, Wyatt Russell, born July 10, 1986, who lives in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, learning and playing hockey. Wyatt was a goalie with the Brampton Capitals of the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League before starting college in 2007 and playing for the CHA Champion University of Alabama in Huntsville Chargers. She also is stepmother to Kurt Russell's son Boston. Hawn became a grandmother on January 7, 2004, when her daughter, Kate Hudson, gave birth to son Ryder Russell Robinson. She then became a grandmother for a second time when son, Oliver Hudson and his wife, actress Erinn Bartlett, welcomed their son Wilder Brooks Hudson, on August 23, 2007.

Isn't it stunning how much alike she and Kate looks??

This is Goldie ...

... and this is Kate ...

Filmography

Actress:

1. The Banger Sisters (2002) .... Suzette

2. Town & Country (2001) .... Mona Miller

... aka Town and Country (Australia: TV title)

3. The Out-of-Towners (1999) .... Nancy Clark

4. Everyone Says I Love You (1996) .... Steffi Dandridge

5. The First Wives Club (1996) .... Elise Elliot

6. Death Becomes Her (1992) .... Helen Sharp

7. HouseSitter (1992) .... Gwen Phillips

8. CrissCross (1992) .... Tracy Cross

9. Deceived (1991) .... Adrienne Saunders

10. Bird on a Wire (1990) .... Marianne Graves

11. Overboard (1987) .... Joanna Stayton / Annie Proffitt

12. Wildcats (1986) .... Molly McGrath

... aka First and Goal

13. Protocol (1984) .... Sunny Davis

14. Swing Shift (1984) .... Kay Walsh

15. Best Friends (1982) .... Paula McCullen

16. Seems Like Old Times (1980) .... Glenda Gardenia Parks

... aka Neil Simon's Seems Like Old Times (USA: complete title)

17. Private Benjamin (1980) .... Pvt. Judy Benjamin - Judy Goodman

18. Viaggio con Anita (1979) .... Anita

... aka A Trip with Anita

... aka Lovers and Liars

... aka Travels with Anita

... aka Voyage avec Anita (France)

19. Foul Play (1978) .... Gloria Mundy

20. The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976) .... Amanda Quaid/Duchess Swansbury

21. Shampoo (1975) .... Jill

22. The Girl from Petrovka (1974) .... Oktyabrina

23. The Sugarland Express (1974) .... Lou Jean Poplin

24. Butterflies Are Free (1972) .... Jill Tanner

25. $ (1971) .... Dawn Divine

... aka The Heist (UK)

26. There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) .... Marion

27. "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" .... Regular Performer (15 episodes, 1968-1970)

... aka Laugh-In

- Episode #4.3 (1970) TV episode .... Regular Performer

- Episode #3.26 (1970) TV episode .... Regular Performer

- Episode #3.25 (1970) TV episode .... Regular Performer

- Episode #3.24 (1970) TV episode .... Regular Performer

- Episode #3.20 (1970) TV episode .... Regular Performer

(10 more)

28. Cactus Flower (1969) .... Toni Simmons

29. Five the Hard Way (1969) (unconfirmed)

... aka The Sidehackers

30. The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968) (as Goldie Jeanne Hawn) .... Giggly Girl

... aka The Family Band (USA: TV title)

31. "Good Morning, World" .... Sandy Kramer (2 episodes, 1967)

- You Can't Say That About Me and Neither Can I (1967) TV episode .... Sandy Kramer

- Knits to You, Sir (1967) TV episode .... Sandy Kramer

Producer:

1. Race Car Kid (2009) (announced) (producer)

2. The Matthew Shepard Story (2002) (TV) (executive producer)

... aka Affaire Matthew Shepard, L' (Canada: French title)

3. When Billie Beat Bobby (2001) (TV) (executive producer)

... aka Billie contre Bobby: La bataille des sexes (Canada: French title)

4. Hope (1997) (TV) (executive producer)

5. Something to Talk About (1995) (executive producer)

... aka Grace Under Pressure

6. My Blue Heaven (1990/I) (executive producer)

7. Wildcats (1986) (executive producer)

... aka First and Goal

8. Protocol (1984) (executive producer)

9. Private Benjamin (1980) (executive producer)

Director:

1. Hope (1997) (TV)

Soundtrack:

1. The First Wives Club (1996) (performer: "You Don't Own Me")

2. "The Dean Martin Show" (1 episode, 1969)

... aka The Dean Martin Comedy Hour (USA: new title)

- Episode dated 18 September 1969 (1969) TV episode (performer: "Star!")

Other works

Commercial for Kappahl (March 2007)

Album: "Goldie" (1972/Reprise Records)

Trivia

Date of Birth: 21 November 1945, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m)

Spouse:

Bill Hudson (3 July 1976 - 1980) (divorced) 2 children

Gus Trikonis (16 May 1969 - 1976) (divorced)

Good friends with Sally Field.

Spent much of her time between 1992 and 1994 looking after her mother, who died in 1994.

Three children: Oliver Hudson (b. 1976), Kate Hudson (b. 1979) from her second marriage to Bill Hudson; Wyatt Russell (b. 1986) from relationship with Kurt Russell.

Attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#71). [1995]

She and longtime companion Kurt Russell both appeared in The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968), Swing Shift (1984), and Overboard (1987).

Partner of Kurt Russell. [1983 - present]

Her father, Rut Hawn (aka Edward Rutledge Hawn), is descended from Edward Rutledge, the youngest person to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

Gave commencement address at Graduation for the Class of 2002 at her alma mater, American University.

Started Cosmic Entertainment with Kurt Russell, Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson in 2003.

Measurements: 34A-23-35 (early starlet days), 34B-24-36 (at age 51), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

Grandmother of Ryder Russell Robinson (child of her daughter Kate Hudson and musician Chris Robinson) and Wilder Brooks (child of her son Oliver Hudson and actress Erinn Bartlett).

Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 209-210. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387

In January 1985, at age 39, she posed for the cover of Playboy.

Her first entertainment gig was performing in "The Nutcracker" at age 11. She earned $1.50.

Awarded honorary degree from Loyola Marymount University after delivering 2004 Commencement address there.

Is an accomplished ballet dancer.

Plays a former rock-star groupie in The Banger Sisters (2002). Her daughter, Kate Hudson, plays a young rock-star groupie in Almost Famous (2000).

She is a devout Buddhist and introduced His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, at the "Tribute to the Dalai Lama" concert at Vancouver's Orpheum Theatre, in April 2004.

Her performance as Judy Benjamin in Private Benjamin (1980) is ranked #70 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Ex-sister-in-law of Gina Trikonis, Brett Hudson and Mark Hudson.

Founder of the Bright Light Foundation for Children.

It is often incorrectly stated that she shortened her family name from Studlendgehawn to Hawn. According to census documents the surname of all of her direct ancestors up to and including her father is Hawn, Hahn, or Haun.

(2005) Published her autobiography, "A Lotus Grows in the Mud"

Personal Quotes

[in 1977] Monogamy is impossible these days for both sexes. I don't know anyone who's faithful or wants to be.

Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them . . . even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way . . . that's why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile--and we should run the world.

We can't hold on to our youth, but what you can hang on to is all the things we've been told a zillion times: you have to find the light in your life that you had when you were a little girl or little guy that made you happy.

sources: Imdb.com, wikipedia.org; pics via google picture search and b&w HQs from Dr. Macro's website!