Melanie Griffith

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q176455: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Body Double, which Star 80 with Julie Klausner credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Night Moves (1975); The Drowning Pool (1975); One on One (1977); Body Double (1984); Working Girl (1988); Pacific Heights (1990); Lolita (Adrian Lyne version); RKO 281; Shining Through.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

An Officer and a Gentleman (1982): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Working Girl (1988), which they acted in: An Officer and a Gentleman ⇒ Working Girl (the host's read). The kiss-and-secretaries-cheer moment is an Officer and a Gentleman homage.
    “And then I had the officer and a gentleman homage when they're kissing and one of the secretaries says, way to go.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:13:08 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Pretty Woman (1990): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Working Girl (1988), which they acted in: Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read). Pretty Woman borrows openly from Working Girl's Cinderella story.
    “It openly steal shit from this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming) · through Working Girl (1988), which they acted in: Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read). Pairing Working Girl and Pretty Woman as a Cinderella double feature to see what Pretty Woman took.
    “It double Cinderella and then you're watching Purdue Woman seeing all the things they took.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 2:05:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

American Psycho (2000): 1 line

  1. lineage (satire lineage) · through Body Double (1984), which they acted in: Body Double ⇒ American Psycho (the host's read). American Psycho is described as the Reductress version of Body Double.
    “it's almost like the, the, you know, reductress version of, um, body double in a way.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:07:36 · Julie Klausner (0.50 sure it was them)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Working Girl (1988), which they acted in: Working Girl ⇒ The Devil Wears Prada (the host's read). Working Girl sprinkled its DNA over later beloved movies, Pretty Woman and Devil Wears Prada chief among them.
    “And it's just sprinkling DNA over all these beloved movies over the next 40 years, but those were Pretty Woman and Devil wears Prada were the 2 that I was like, oh, yeah.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:13:35 · Joanna Robinson (0.40 sure it was them)

Working Girl (1990 NBC series): 1 line

  1. programming (programming) · through Working Girl (1988), which they acted in: Working Girl ⇒ Working Girl (1990 NBC series) (the host's read). Working Girl became a 1990 NBC series, with Sandra Bullock as Tess.
    “Working Girl became an NBC series in 1990”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:11:10 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (12) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (5)

  1. career (career): Melanie Griffith → Pacific Heights. Speakers call Pacific Heights near her peak; Bill likes it.
    “Although, if you look at our IMDb, this is probably the peak in Pacific Heights.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:20:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Melanie Griffith → Night Moves. Griffith appears nude as a young teenager in Night Moves with Gene Hackman.
    “she was in night moves with Gene Hackman.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:21:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Melanie Griffith → The Drowning Pool. Griffith plays a 15-year-old seductress opposite Paul Newman.
    “I saw a drowning pool recently for the 1st time with Paul Newman, where she's like a 15 year old seductress.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:22:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Melanie Griffith → One on One. Griffith plays a hitchhiker who steals from Robbie Benson.
    “She's also, she plays a hitchhiker in the Robbie Benson basketball classic one-on-one movie I've seen over a 100 times.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:22:38 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Melanie Griffith → Body Double. Body Double was the first time a real director saw something more in Griffith.
    “That's the 1st time, like a real director is like, no, no, there's something more here.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:23:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Melanie Griffith → Julia Roberts. Roberts would not have been as comfortable getting dressed on screen.
    “I don't know if a lot of, like, Julia Roberts, I don't think would have been, oh, I'm just going to get dressed in 3 different scenes.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:23:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Melanie Griffith → Meryl Streep. Griffith plays the lead by receding, not raising her voice, like Streep in Prada.
    “And they're, and they recede a little and they don't always raise the voice, Meryl Streep and Deborah, where's Prada being the other one?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:13:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Melanie Griffith → Dakota Johnson. Craig names Dakota Johnson, Griffith's daughter, as the modern equivalent, with shared smile and hair.
    “I mean, Dakota Johnson?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:50:51 · Craig Horlbeck (0.70 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (same role): Shelley Winters → Melanie Griffith. In the Lyne film Melanie Griffith plays the Winters part quietly, aware the Winters performance is infamous.
    “She's just like, well, I know the Shelley Winters performance is infamous.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:07:35 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Melanie Griffith → Jodie Foster. Comparing the two Best Actress performances, Griffith's might be the harder one.
    “I actually think this one might be harder in some ways.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:15:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Melanie Griffith → Michelle Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer was too beautiful already; you could not watch her bloom.
    “You couldn't, you couldn't like watch her bloom into something because she's pre-bloomed.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:16:15 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Melanie Griffith: Production shut down for a day because she was out until 4:30 and flying; Nichols made her pay for the shoot day.
    “He made her pay for the whole day shoot.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:18:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Melanie Griffith: Griffith's red eyes and rough nights show in HD; spotting which scenes followed a late night is a game you can win.
    “there's a couple scenes where she's just got like completely red eyes for no reason.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:19:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Melanie Griffith: Her ex Don Johnson, Miami Vice, ponytail year: she got back with him after rehab, three weeks after filming.
    “So she went in rehab 3 weeks after filming and then, um, got back together with Don Johnson, my guy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:21:00 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Melanie Griffith: The topless vacuuming scene was apparently Griffith's own idea; Nichols said sounds great.
    “apparently it was Melanie Griffith's idea.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:26:30 · Joanna Robinson (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Melanie Griffith: She told a 2017 interview she repeatedly made passes at Alec Baldwin, who said no thanks.
    “repeatedly made passes at Alec Baldwin and he said, no thanks”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:35:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)