Anjelica Huston's fashion look for a magazine in the 1970s
In highly industrialized Hollywood, it is more difficult to debut with a good-looking face than to ascend to the sky, unless you are beautiful and dazzling, and you have acting skills.
Or you have to have a face that is immediately rememberable, which is so iconic that it is difficult to forget at first glance.
In Hollywood in the 1970s and 1980s, there were "three demon queens", and although their faces did not have the appearance of the country, that face was extremely recognizable and gave the public a redefinition of actresses.
These four alternative Hollywood "whoses" led the way, from left to right: Barbara Streisand Bartra Streisan and Anjelica Huston of Houston, and Cher and Lisa Minnelli below
Before this "three demon queens", there were also two female stars who were also the favorites of comrades, one was Barbara Streisand, Bartreasand, and the other was Bete Midler, these two gods were not people who ate by their faces, and their starlight in that era was indeed very dazzling.
The "Three Demon Queens" have already introduced two, one is Lisa Minnelli, the other is Cher, and the "Demon Queen" Anjelica Huston, who is introduced below, also has a legendary background, she is not like Barbara Streisand, Lisa Minnelly, Cher and Bet Midler, she is also very popular in the music world, she focuses on the development of the film world.
Anjelica Huston and "scumbag" Jack Nicholson's 14-year love affair
Angelica Houston has a hard-wired, bizarrely laid-out face that was made for movies.
Throughout her youth were john huston (1906-1987) and Jack Nicholson— she had defected from her stubborn father, John Houston, and had a long love affair with Jack Nicholson.
Image by Anjelica Huston in the film The Addams Family (1991) by Anjelica Huston
Unexpectedly, just when Angelica Houston thought that this life had passed in a foggy way, in her middle-aged years, she suddenly bloomed a dazzling light, and her role on the screen was demonic, strong and arrogant, even the supporting roles in the corner could not avoid the aura. The girl who had always thought she was an ordinary girl had become a "witch" and lived forever on the screen.
Anjelica Houston was born July 8, 1951 in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of ballerina Enrica Ricki and director and actress John Houston. Her mother was from New York and of Italian descent, and her father was of English, Scottish and Irish descent.
In 1967, 16-year-old Anjelica Huston of Houston was photographed with father John Huston of Houston
Anjelica Houston spent much of her childhood in Ireland and England, and in December 1968 she first ventured into acting, playing a minor role in her father John Houston's film Silver Davey (1969). However, in that year, her mother died in a car accident at the age of 39.
【Once an outstanding model celebrity】
In July 1969, Angelica Houston was given the opportunity to star in Tony Richardson's (1928–1991) film Hamlet Hamlet (1969) in London, and the biggest blow of her life also came in this year: her mother was killed in a car accident. This pushed her to the brink of collapse and made it impossible for her to stay in England any longer. Anjelica Houston decided to move to New York, believing that her mother was the most beautiful woman in the world and the most influential to her.
Stills from the film A Walk With Love and Death (1969), by Anjelica Huston and Assi Dayan (right)
In New York, she met photographer Bob Richardson, a tall, exceptionally good-looking young woman who had been modeling for several years.
Angelica Houston became Bob Richardson's exclusive model, and she was also the best expressive of his photographic ideas. Photographing crying figures was a hallmark of Bob Richardson, which sparked a trend at the time. It was a radical era.
While filming an album for an Italian fashion magazine, they were watched by a large crowd at the Rome station, and the deviant shooting scene made the local people stone their camera scene and constantly booed.
Photographer Bob Richardson photographs Angelica Houston Anjelica Huston in the early 1970s
Angelica Houston was 18 when she met Bob Richardson, and Bob Richardson was 42. Tabloid reporters at the time pointed out that Angelica Houston was the "culprit" who separated Bob Richardson and his wife.
Angelica Houston later recalled in her biography Look at Me: A Memoir: "In fact, the person concerned knows best about feelings. Bob Richardson is not only older, but also mentally ill and has been seeing doctors and taking medication. He often woke up in the middle of the night, looked at the world in despair, and whispered to himself that it had no value. ”
Anjelica Huston, Houston, 1975
She goes on to point out in the book: "What can you expect the careless man to say and do to a man with a desperate worldview?" So I had to take care of this man who was always at the tipping point of madness and genius, and put it down to my mistake, so I had to bear it all. Four years of despair and helplessness accompanied by joy and excitement have passed, and the relationship with Bob Richardson has ended. Years later, when I heard of Bob Richardson's death, what flashed through my head was not the time when I was on the cross, but the fact that we had created so many beautiful and amazing works together. ”
Thankfully, Angelica Houston's collaboration with Bob Richardson opened the way for her modeling career, and she continued to appear in heavyweight photographers' lenses and became their favorite.
Examples include Helmut Newton and Guy Burdan Guy Bourdin.
Anjelica Huston photographed fashion styling for a magazine in the mid-1970s
The collaboration between Angelica Houston and Helmut Newton witnessed the golden age of French fashion magazines, and Guy Bourdan was very similar to Bob Richardson, the kind of person who liked to torture models to death and sobbed, but that did not prevent these talented photographers from taking amazing pictures and gradually allowing Angelica Houston to find the trick to modeling.
Anjelica Huston's fashion look for a magazine in the late 1970s
Perhaps without the qualifications of a musician or artist, the profession of model has discovered Anjelica Houston's talent for expressing certain experiences and emotions, that is, going around and around, and finally proving that Anjelica Houston's talent is still to be an actor.
【Create a record for three generations of grandchildren to win the Oscars together】
In the early 1980s, Angelica Houston decided to focus more on film. She first came to notice in director Bob Rafelson's remake of the classic film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), starring Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange.
Promotional photo for the film Prizzi's Honor (1985), Jack Nicholson, Catherine Turner Kathleen Turner, John Huston and Anjelica Huston of Houston
She then played major supporting roles in Long Live Rock 'n' Roll This Is Spinal Tap (1984) and Ice Vanguard/Space Thief The Ice Pirates (1984), at which point she began to have some experience with the film.
Her father, John Houston, supported her work again and again, because the previous training finally made her shine in her father's "The Honor of the Pritz Family/ Prizzi's Honor" (1985).
On location in the film Prizzi's Honor (1985), John Huston (right) and Anjelica Huston of Anjelica Huston
"The Honor of the Pritz Family" is about Charlie (jack Nicholson) is a member of the gangster Pritz family, and the daughter of the family boss, Meros (played by Angelica Houston), is a wonderful couple who are in love with each other, and later become friends from the couple due to misunderstanding.
Many years later, at the wedding of the gang members, the two meet again, but this time the goddess is interested, but the heart of the King of Xiang is stolen by the beautiful woman Irene (played by Catherine Turner) at the wedding. Charlie loves to die and comes back to life, only to discover that Irene is a professional female killer who has messed up the affairs of the Pritz family, embezzled a large amount of money, and even accidentally killed the wife of the police chief in a kidnapping ticket, putting the gang under great pressure.
Stills from the film Prizzi's Honor(1985), Jack Nicholson (right) and Anjelica Huston of Anjelica Houston
Charlie struggles between his love and family honor until the end, when he finally kills Irene.
The charm of women looks like honey, so sweet that men lose their minds; in fact, they are a knife, beckoning you to die, and when the man is on the road, it is naturally silly to love him or harm him.
Meros, who grew up in the gang, knows this well. In the face of Cha Li, he never spoke softly, and before he finished speaking, he lay on the ground with his jade body lying on the ground; his expression was always ambiguous, as if he was smiling and refusing to return the favor. Behind the scenes, the face is covered with frost and calmly coped, and everything is in the mastery of the royal sister style.
Stills from the film Prizzi's Honor( 1985), Anjelica Huston, Houston
It was she who revealed Irene's true colors to the gang boss, trying to kill with a knife to win back Charlie. Angelica Houston only has five or six scenes in this film, but the performance of each scene is very different, and a skilled black woman is played to the fullest.
In this film, John Houston portrays Angelica Houston as a calculating, domineering Meros, the daughter of an old mafia man.
Angelica Houston won best supporting actress at the 58th Academy Awards in 1986 for her performance in The Honours of the Pritz Family, and it was because of this award that she won a new Oscar record, which is the first family in Oscar history to have won an Oscar for three generations.
Anjelica Huston at the 58th Academy Awards in 1986
Anjelica Houston's grandfather Walter Huston (1883-1950) and father John Houston won three awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 21st Academy Awards in 1949 for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
[The role of the witch is for her]
Anjelica Houston herself once said: "When time pulls the lines of the face down, I have to look in the mirror again, but try to express the experience of the years honestly in the film." 」 So when some people comment that I can play a witch directly without makeup, I really don't complain about the appearance my parents gave me, it doesn't matter, I enjoy it. ”
Image of Anjelica Huston by Anjelica Huston in the film The Witches (1990).
In fact, Angelica Houston's love of witches is very early. At the age of 6, she and her friends rehearsed her first play, "The Three Witches," which originated from Shakespeare's play.
That was her first witch, the earliest line appeared, of course nervous, forgot a lot of words, and hysterically escaped from the stage crying for a night, leaving Anjelica Houston with a psychological shadow of rare death in stage plays.
On the set of Captain Io's Captain's Canopy EO (1986), Anjelica Huston and Michael Jackson are photographed
As an adult, Angelica Houston suddenly discovers the mystery of witches. With a deep history and endless stories behind them, isn't this the role that actors dream of?
Anjelica Houston first experimented with the witch role on the big screen in the 1986 17-minute short film Captain Iao Captain EO (1986) directed by Francis Ford Coppola in which she confronted the pop king Michael Jackson (1958-2009), which was the equivalent of a film video for Michael Jackson.
In 1986, director George Miller had already confirmed Jack Nicholson to play the male lead role when he set up the crew of "The Witches of East Town/The Witches of the Purple House" (1987), and when Jack Nicholson read the script, he recommended Angelica Houston to audition for the role of the witch in the play, but in the end, Cher won the role.
The Witches the Witches (1990) in 1990 tested the waters again, and as a result, the absurd plot and exaggerated performance were warmly welcomed by the audience; the next performance of "The Addams Family/Ada Family" (1991) and the sequel "Addams Family Values/ Addams Family Values" (1993) came to fruition.
The Witch's outfit was a perfect fit for Angelica Houston, and it was a matter of course that it grossed over 100 million.
The Adams family lived in a state that ordinary people could not understand, and their happiness was nothing more than a horror in the eyes of their neighbors. Adams' lawyer, Tan Hadaya Dan Hedaya, is greedy for money and tries to get Gordon (Christopher Lloyd) to impersonate Adam's brother Pfister, who disappeared years ago.
The Adams family, who see the wicked as brothers, are tricked out of the castle by Gordon and live on the streets. Unexpectedly, Gordon was indoctrinated in his life with the Adams family, and the bad things turned around, and finally ended up with a happy ending.
Images of Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia by Raul Julia in the film The Addams Family (1991).
From the character modeling to the storyline, Adams's family is full of bridges that pay homage to early horror films and gothic novels, and the appearance is a hodgepodge of old cult film elements, but inside it is still a warm and peaceful, family-oriented American values.
Therefore, after the release of this film, it was well received and a sequel was quickly launched, and wang Jing's film "Nerve Knife and Flying Cat" (1993) immediately cloned the character "thing" (one palm) in the film, which shows its popularity.
Images of Anjelica Huston and Christopher Lloyd in the film The Addams Family (1991) by Anjelica Houston Huston and Christopher Lloyd
Angelica Houston's wicked temperament is too suitable for playing the witch in "The Adams Family", she plays the image of the witch hidden in the hearts of children, and it is unforgettable as soon as she appears.
If you are not familiar with Western horror films, the image of Anjelica Houston in the film will be seen as a geisha-faced witch.
Her face is pale as a zombie, her lips are red like a vampire, her long hair is scattered up to her waist, and her long black fishtail skirt does not change all year round. The difference between gothics is the strangeness of the way it is expressed, but its core is still "love".
Angelica Houston's performance is slightly insane, raising her hand like a stable madwoman, for example, she cuts off the flowers and only inserts them into the bottle, stops her daughter from chasing her son, and then hands over a large knife.
In the dark castle, such a strange behavior and the overall atmosphere are integrated, making the hostess's existence very credible. When she came to her daughter's school and listened to the teacher introduce that the children's idols were presidents and big stars, she asked eagerly and sincerely: "Have you talked to the parents of these children?" "There is no doubt that even the thick gothic makeup can not hide that in her bones she is still a traditional housewife, a mother and wife who have changed the way of expressing love.
Images of Anjelica Huston and Christina Ricci in the film The Addams Family (1991) by Anjelica Houston and Christina Ricci
The fact that the film that told such a horrific story so warmly that it ended up making countless viewers wander and grossed hundreds of millions of dollars shows that the film was followed by "Guillotine Valley/Sleepy Hollow" (1999), "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" (2003), and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). Chocolate Factory" (2005) and other films can not be surpassed.
Jack Nicholson let her die once.
Jack Nicholson is a key figure that Angelica Houston can't avoid in her life, and since then, they have become a pair of showbiz people.
Anjelica Huston and Jack Nicholson, Houston
In her biography Look at Me: Memoirs, Angelica Houston tells readers: "To know how tortuous this romance is, in addition to Paparazi's footage, you have to watch the movie we starred in." ”
The cinema is like a dark chamber, which has already predicted everything.
John Houston, while filming Roman Polanski's film Chinatown (1974), asked Jack Nicholson on location, "Did you sleep with my daughter?" That was in 1973. Apparently, John Houston was not optimistic about his daughter's relationship.
Location of the film Chinatown (1974), Jack Nicholson and John Huston (left)
In 1981, during the filming of The Postman Always Rings Twice, Jack Nicholson and Angelica Houston briefly broke up because of Jessica Langer's involvement.
It wasn't until the movie "Honor of the Pritz Family" that Angelica Houston finally used the characters in her father's script to say the resentful line: "I'll wait until you're 50?" What else is there for a 50-year-old woman"?
In fact, people who act and watch know that this relationship of separation and integration is almost over.
Anjelica Huston's fashion look for a magazine in the early 1980s
Remember, back in 1987, at John Houston's hospital bedside, Jack Nicholson promised the dying old man that he would always take care of his beloved daughter, however, just before the old man's burial, he had already begun dating the young star Karen Mayou Chandler.
Jack Nicholson is well known for his flowery intestines, and he is to blame for himself and the fanatical girls.
He is a curious man who is willing to accept any interesting thing, which is a talent in the actor, but can only be a burden in the life of the family. He eventually admits that he is a scoundrel.
Promotional photo for the film The Grifters (1990), from left to right: Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening
Anjelica Houston said of this sad relationship: "If it were usual, I would immediately break with this kind of flowery man, but the breakup with Jack Nicholson is extremely long." 」 In fact, we didn't live together for a long time before we were completely broken, avoiding each other and trying to associate with other people until we confirmed that we didn't really belong to each other. Such a long breakup is like facing the death of a parent, and it is precisely because the grief is so great that it consumes so much time. ”
Jack Nicholson later told Angelica Houston that she had brought the relationship to "the downfall" of the relationship, and that she was a good actor at exaggerating appropriately. "I used to think that Jack Nicholson would wake up to me one day and say that the loss of his leaving me could not be measured, and now that thought is long gone."
[She feels that being a director is easier than acting]
The scariest part of acting is waiting, waiting restlessly behind the camera for the scene to be played, which can make people crazy. Based on this, Angelica Houston occasionally wanted to change the situation, so she entered the directing profession in 1996 and made her first film, Basstard Out of Carolina (1996).
On location from the film Basstard Out of Carolina (1996), Anjelica Huston of Houston looks at the camera
It was originally a TV movie, but because CNN founder Ted Turner believed that it involved the abuse and rape of young children, it could not be broadcast on the cable network after filming.
Fortunately, the praise it received at the Cannes Film Festival opened up another path for the film, and SHOWTIME screened the film under the banner that "no other television network will show you".
While the media hype was disgusting, it also brought Angelica Houston an Emmy nomination for directing.
Anjelica Huston in Vanity Fair magazine
The next film, Agnes Browne (1999), was a love letter from Angelica Houston to Ireland.
Throughout the 1980s, movies about Ireland were mostly about troubles and crises, a far cry from Angelica Houston's vision of Ireland, where she had a good life.
There she had a childhood of meadows, forests, and beaches. So Angelica Houston filmed a fairytale story.
Anjelica Huston's fashion look for a magazine in the early 1990s
During filming, I crossed the border to see a Bob Dylan concert, and after the concert, looking at the scarred streets after the baptism of shells, the atmosphere was gloomy, but people were still full of expectations, which is ireland that people will never forget.
【Age is just a set of numbers in life】
In 1992, Angelica Houston married the famous sculptor Robert Graham. Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, Meryl Streep, Arnold Schwarzenegger and other stars attended their wedding.
Stills from the movie Rush 3 John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019), Anjelica Huston
In 2008, her husband, Robert Graham, died. Stars such as Sharon Stone and Harrison Ford attended the funeral.
Angelica Houston later revealed in her biography that she had turned down director Rob Reiner for the role of Anne Wilkes in Ten Days of Danger (1990) because she was working on the role of Lily in The Deadly Gamble The Grifters (1990), while Kathy Bates won Best Actress at the 63rd Academy Awards in 1991 for Ten Days in Danger.
Anjelica Huston photographed the fashion look for a magazine in the mid-1980s
But in a 2013 interview, Angelica Houston consistently considered Lily to be the most challenging role of her career. In Premiere Magazine's 100 greatest performances of all time (2006), this show in Deadly Gamble ranked 84th.
In the American drama "Fame First Season Smash Season 1" (2012), Angelica Houston is even more domineering in front of a group of offspring; in the horror film "The Watcher in the Woods" (2017) and the war film "Waiting for Anya Waiting for Anya" (2020), she is still the heroine of the world.
Anjelica Huston, Houston, photographed in 1996
Now 70 years old, Angelica Houston, with her tall body and personal boldness inherited from her father John Houston, as well as her mother's beauty and aristocratic nose, Anjelica Houston undoubtedly created a very personal female figure, and her performance brought great confidence and authority.
It is clear that she values her acting skills and has become a powerful actor, completely escaping the shadow of her father, who died in 1987.
Looking back on her life, she has been a model, talked about a yearless love, won a little gold man, and shared with Jack Nicholson for 14 years, and in the 1980s and 90s, Angelica Houston really lived in Hollywood. Now, at the age of 70, she is still active on the big screen.
Title: Watch Me: A Memoir Author: Anjelica Huston Publisher: Scribner Published: 2014-11-11
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