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Molly Ringwald Passed on Playing Julia Roberts’ Pretty Woman Role Due to Disliking the Story

Molly Ringwald was one of Hollywood’s leading teen actresses of the 1980s, having starred in such hit coming-of-age romantic comedy-dramas as Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club. But at the turn of the decade, the Golden Globe-nominated actress decided to turn down the titular role of the more mature romantic comedy, Pretty…

Anthony Michael Hall Details the ‘Breakfast Club’ Sequel John Hughes Wanted to Make

The 1985 film The Breakfast Club, starring Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy, is one of the most popular and definitive works of writer-director John Hughes, his second time behind the camera, following 1984’s Sixteen Candles. That was only the beginning of a prolific career that included hits like…