Posted by Larry Gleeson
TCM Pressroom Press Launch
New York, NY – March 6, 2025. Turner Traditional Films (TCM) has revealed that legendary actress Michelle Pfeiffer will likely be celebrated with a hand and footprint ceremony on the famend TCL Chinese language Theatre in Hollywood on Friday, April twenty fifth as a part of the sixteenth annual TCM Traditional Movie Pageant. Throughout the pageant, Pfeiffer’s acclaimed efficiency in THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS (1989) — for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and gained the Golden Globe for Finest Actress — will likely be showcased.
“There’s an simple high quality to any half performed by Michelle Pfeiffer,” mentioned Ben Mankiewicz, TCM Primetime Anchor and Official Host of the TCM Traditional Movie Pageant. “She blends — seemingly effortlessly (although it certainly isn’t easy) — class with depth, capturing the complexity in each character she performs. For instance, take the 2 instances she’s portrayed the spouse or girlfriend of a prison kingpin, reverse Al Pacino in Brian De Palma’s violent drama ‘Scarface,’ then main the forged of Jonathan Demme’s romantic comedy ‘Married to the Mob.’ In ‘Scarface,’ she may’ve been nothing however an objectified prize to the 2 males in her life.
“As a substitute, she introduced this steely toughness to the position, humanizing Elvira in sudden methods. In ‘Married to the Mob,’ she took an identical character kind, turned it solely the wrong way up and served because the movie’s emotional anchor. After these two performances, there was little doubt a serious expertise was on the scene in Hollywood. And she or he’s made good on that promise during the last three-plus many years in movie after movie, together with ‘The Fabulous Baker Boys,’ ‘Harmful Liaisons,’ ‘Russia Home,’ ‘Catwoman,’ ‘Hairspray,’ her critically acclaimed flip as Betty Ford in ‘The First Girl’, and as Bernie Madoff’s compellingly indifferent spouse Ruth within the HBO film ‘Wizard of Lies.’ Regardless of the character, Michelle Pfeiffer’s performances are persistently nuanced and convincingly genuine.”
This marks the twelfth hand and footprint ceremony as a part of the TCM Traditional Movie Pageant. In 2011, Peter O’Toole was the honoree, adopted by Kim Novak in 2012, Jane Fonda in 2013, Jerry Lewis in 2014, Christopher Plummer in 2015, Francis Ford Coppola in 2016, Carl and Rob Reiner in 2017, Cicely Tyson in 2018, Billy Crystal in 2019, Lily Tomlin in 2022 and Jodie Foster in 2024.
http://For extra info, please go to http://tcm.com/pageant.
About Turner Traditional Films (TCM)
Turner Traditional Films (TCM) is a two-time Peabody Award-winning community that presents traditional movies, uncut and commercial-free, from the biggest movie libraries on the planet highlighting “The place Then Meets Now.” TCM options insights from Primetime host Ben Mankiewicz together with hosts Alicia Malone, Dave Karger, Jacqueline Stewart and Eddie Muller, plus interviews with a variety of particular company and serves as the last word film lover vacation spot. With three many years as a number one authority in traditional movie, TCM affords critically acclaimed sequence like The Necessities and Reframed together with annual programming occasions like 31 Days of Oscar® and Summer time Below the Stars. TCM additionally immediately connects with film followers via well-liked occasions such because the annual TCM Traditional Movie Pageant in Hollywood and the TCM Traditional Cruise. As well as, TCM produces the wildly profitable podcast “The Plot Thickens,” which has had greater than 9 million downloads up to now. TCM hosts a wealth of fabric on-line at tcm.com and thru the Watch TCM cell app. Followers can even take pleasure in a traditional film expertise on the TCM hub on Max.
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