S20E19: Molly Ringwald
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In the 1980s, filmmaker John Hughes was the king of a certain kind of cinema, and his very favorite leading lady was teen idol Molly Ringwald. With a zest for the parts Hughes had written for her and a refreshing atypical beauty, Molly became one of the most famous faces of the era, and the performer of generation-defining characters. Her path departed from Hughes's after Pretty in Pink, and the years since have taken her places she never expected going - including through a tough divorce.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to trashy divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad |
| 0:06.0 | relationships. My name is Stacey and Alicia. Who do you have for us today? Friends, thanks for |
| 0:12.4 | joining us today for today's tale of Marital Misadventure as we take a nostalgic walk down |
| 0:18.0 | the memory lane of 80s, teen movies, and more with Teen Queen Molly Ringwald. |
| 0:25.6 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:26.8 | Everybody get your quarters to call your mom and dad after the movie ends. |
| 0:31.1 | Yep. |
| 0:31.6 | Put your Venizia sweaters on backwards. |
| 0:34.8 | It's time to trash it up a little bit with some Molly Ringwald today. There's no |
| 0:39.0 | reason to do anything but go, go, go. Oh, there's so much to like about this story. I do like Molly Kathleen Ringwald. |
| 0:58.6 | Who doesn't? Born on February 18th, 1968 in Roseville, California. |
| 1:05.3 | Our little Molly is the youngest of three children from a very interesting and artistic family. Molly's father, Robert Ringwald, |
| 1:15.4 | talented jazz pianist, also blind. Interesting. It's one of the things Molly says was that |
| 1:24.1 | it was always awesome to read scripts to her father because she got to play every character. |
| 1:29.3 | Oh, that makes sense. |
| 1:30.1 | Isn't that incredible? |
| 1:31.3 | Molly was a natural performer from a young age. |
| 1:34.6 | She is one of those kids that was singing and performing for her family as soon as she could talk. |
| 1:41.0 | Recognizing Molly's talents, her parents encouraged her interest in singing and acting. |
| 1:47.6 | And Molly begins acting at the tender age of three. |
| 1:52.2 | We've seen that. |
| 1:53.3 | In a community theater production of Truman Capote's The Grass Harp. |
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