Celebrities More Deserving Of A Biopic Than Helen Fucking Reddy

Dame May Whitty

Amy Grant - Jesus, drugs, divorce. It has everything!

Edith Massey

Dusty Springfield

Dusty Springfield

Dusty Springfield

Dusty Springfield

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Dusty Springfield

R4 You forgot to mention Dusty Springfield.

Kiki Dee

Kiki Dee, you're still alive and posting on DL?!

What's wrong with Helen Reddy? She's a trailblazing feminist icon and one of the biggest stars of the 70's.

Her divorce from Jeff Wald was also very scandalous at the time and made headlines everywhere.

R5 You're right, my bad.

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Has there ever been a biopic on Noel Coward?

There have been two on Cole Porter and neither got it right. They need to do a third with a more realistic actor playing Porter. Maybe someone like Toby Jones.

Toni Tennille

Dolly Parton. But with "Coal Miner's Daughter," "Sweet Dreams" and "Walk the Line," I suppose that well is dry.

The Shaggs.

What about me, bitches?

[quote]Dolly Parton. But with "Coal Miner's Daughter," "Sweet Dreams" and "Walk the Line," I suppose that well is dry.

Dolly had a tv movie made about her as a child. I think we'll have to wait until she dies to get an honest biopic. I'd like to see her early years in Nashville with Porter Waggoner.

Mick Jagger

Barbra Streisand

John Lennon

Paul McCartney

Patti Labelle

Babs Bush

Melania Trump - from Slovenia poverty to most powerful woman in the world

[quote]Melania Trump - from Slovenia poverty to most powerful woman in the world

That would just be a straight up porn film.

OP, I am shocked by your unkind comments about a true DL icon!

I can hear her say...

L Chat icon maybe.

Not a DL icon.

r22, if you're a person who's hooked on hurtin' on yourself... better sing along!

Such a non-talent compared to so many of her contemporaries...

Anyone from Karen Carpenter to Linda Ronstadt.

Ain't no way to treat a lady, OP.

A Stevie biopic was rumored for ages with Lindsay Lohan starring years ago.

Stevie said no way to that casting.

Maybe Margot Robbie would work.

[quote] A Stevie biopic was rumored for ages with Lindsay Lohan starring years ago. Stevie said no way to that casting.

Who could blame her. Stevie wants her life to be the subject of the movie, not Lohan's messy life and behavior.

Obviously, whoever does Stevie's biopic will have to lip synch because Stevie has such a unique sounding voice.

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Craggy the Mountain Goat

Stevie said Lohan couldn’t play her till she got clean.

So it never happened.

She’s actually had an interesting life, unlike that Melbourne hausfrau.

Joni Fucking Mitchell

"From Crystals to Cunt Bones: The Stevie Nicks Story"

Nana Mouskouri

Not Without My Cokestraw: The Stevie Nicks Story

Lindsay F-ing Lohan: Flaming Carpet & Fiery🔥 Drapes

Helen Fucking Lawson

Helen Reddy has to be one of the most annoying voiced singers of just a tad better that ad jingles of all time. I Am Woman is NOT trail blazing. It’s awful.

I Am Frau

Hear Me Whine

I am Woman was the theme song of the Feminist movement.

Reddy also was a movie star in the 70's as well.

She made a movie.

She was not a movie star.

They already made a movie about Karen Carpenter in the late 80's.

Dusty Springfield's has been in production for years now. Kristin Chenowith was supposed to be cast. To be honest, as much as Dusty is talented, she really isn't much of a name in the US, which is probably why no one has been in a rush to do it. Maybe something for the BBC would be better.

Chrissie Hynde. Except that no one actress could capture all that.

Chrissy Metz.

It would take a team of actresses to capture all that.

[quote] Dusty Springfield's has been in production for years now

It's been in the PROPOSAL status for years now. If it were actually in production, that would indicate cameras were on and something was being filmed.

Dusty is well known in America to the original generation who heard her music, and to hipsters who found Dusty in Memphis or heard Preacher Man in....was it Pulp Fiction?

Chenowith was many, many, many, many iterations ago of the Dusty project. The current proposal is that the script has been written by the same person who wrote "Carol" and was originally to be a single 2 hour film, but now might shift to a TV project.

There were so many talented female singers in the ‘70s.

Helen Reddy was not one of them.

Suzi Quatro.

I'm just spitballing here.

Christine Fucking McVie: The Day I Started Kicking Back!

Of course, Ms Lindsey Olin Graham!!! Her life has more twists and turns than a dead body in a barrel off Niagara Falls!

Patrice Munsel

"Charlene on the Isle of Greece!"

I'm ready for my close-up, hussies!

For what it's worth, I had a roommate back in the 80's who went on a gay cruise on which Helen Reddy was the entertainment.

He'd never been a fan, but he came back RAVING about how great and amazing she was.

I believe that most seasoned performers, even though they might not be your cup of tea, learn how to entertain a crowd.

Helen Reddy grew up in a showbiz family, and was a performer ever since she was a child.

I'm sure she knew all the tricks of the trade and probably put on a really great show in her day.

And I've always thought the lyrics she wrote for "I Am Woman", were really well crafted. It's easy to poke fun, but she created an bonafide anthem.

Carly Simon has had a pretty interesting life.

She grew up with famous people coming to dinner.

Her mother was having an affair with a young guy living in their house.

She was sexually molested as a child.

She was married to a heroin addict who was also a big pop star.

She fucked Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, and every other man Joni fucked.

She's struggled with psychological issues and cancer.

Her grifter daughter stopped speaking to her until she forked over some real estate.

The father of her children STILL won't speak to her.

R12 & R15, I agree with about Dolly, but she's too fond of quick cash & quick opportunities that will net her the most these days, hence the horrid NBC movies about her childhood. There's a superb, gritty telling of her story just waiting to be told, but Dolly is waaaaay to image conscious to reveal anything other than the same by-now-cliche details with the same punchlines she tells ad nauseam. Love Dolly, but at this point in her career she's just the spokesperson for her very carefully cultivated brand.

Something more inclusive of Sal Mineo's entire life than James Franco's "last day in the life of" flick, "Sal."

R52 Um...you left someone important off that list!

R51, good post. I think Reddy is very worthy of a film about her. She may not seem like the most intriguing individual, but the establishment's reaction to "I Am Woman" makes her story worth telling. When that song out it was as cherished as it was reviled. Those against it quite seriously thought the fabric of civilization was about to come unraveled, while others embraced it proudly as the voice they been waiting for as it reached everyone on every radio. How ironic that the film comes out when the #1 song is about wet ass pussy.

[quote]Stevie has such a unique sounding voice.

Just play "Imaginary Lover" by the Atlanta Rhythm Section at 45 rpm instead of 33 rpm, and you have it.

You're so vain, you probably think this biopic is about you.

A Biopic of Lassie would probably engage my interest slightly more than this movie.

Helen Reddy was the headliner at a gay pride festival in San Diego about 25 years ago. She did a few hits, then left. The announcer then said over the microphone, "Helen has had to leave to attend a previous social engagement."

Dolly has been very honest about growing up in Appalachia. Especially in her earlier interviews, which are very revealing.

Some just want Dolly to say she's gay. At this point, who even cares?

[quote]That dyke's film is getting is even getting a theatrical release.

Well, maybe.

I remember hearing I Am Woman on the radio as my pre-boomer brother drove us to my grandfather's funeral. He was SO uncomfortable, it really got under his skin. But I liked it and couldn't see the problem.

Glad the old days are gone.

I know R61, it would be like finding out your great granny is gay.

Mr Cobain

Personally I've never thought Dolly Parton was a lesbian. Growing up poor on Appalachia is the least interesting thing about her. Her real story is how a woman who left those circumstances amasses a worth of hundreds of millions of dollars. Her brilliant mind for business & sharp ability to navigate more educated business men is her real story of interest. Outsmarting the entertainment establishment is her true talent.

You just beat me R65. Kurt Cobain was a talented, fascinating and profoundly troubled guy.

Tom of Finland

A biopic on Dame ONJ, her transformation from country cutie to pop tart, and her cancer battles. Or is that too Lifetime/Hallmark for a big screen treatment?

I would love to see a George Michael biopic. How many people alive even remember who Helen Reddy was?

R70 I'm in my 50's and barely scrape it.

My Mother hit clinical depression in the 1970's and played her records Almost 24 hours a day for two years.

We had her sectioned for six months after that torture.

Hi

Sex sells, apparently.

Odetta

Pia Zadora

There has already been an ONJ biopic, R69.

The only thing I know about Helen Reddy is that she had something to do with Puff the Magic Dragon.

[quote]A biopic on Dame ONJ, her transformation from country cutie to pop tart, and her cancer battles

They already did one!

Geez, they've done movies on Whitney, Karen Carpenter, Aaliyah, ONJ already!

Pat Benatar

You Fags seem to easily forget your True ICON.

[quote] but the establishment's reaction to "I Am Woman" makes her story worth telling.

There was no establishment opposition to it.

It was a corny song that anyone should be embarrassed to admit being involved with.

Laura Branigan

Maureen McGovern

Melissa Manchester

I Am Woman went straight to streaming in Australia. The film plays like a mediocre TV film. Evan Peters is beyond terrible in it. Tilda Cobham-Hervey tries but has nothing to work with as Helen Reddy. The only saving grace of the wretched film is Danielle Macdonald as Lilian Roxon.

Dr. Richard Feynman's life would make a fantastic biopic. His autobiographical "Surely You're Joking, Dr. Feynman!" was a joy to read, quite funny too. He's the theoretical physicist who demonstrated to the Rogers Commission how the O-rings failed by immersing them in ice water. He pulled no punches and gave zero fucks. And he played the bongos in his off time.

Has there been a Helen Fucking Hayes biopic?

R68, There is a film about him, called,.......wait for it......Tom of Finland.

R72 Did Dorothy Hamilton & Helen ever go into penalty kicks over that triple axle supercut?

Hamill*

I had no idea Fucking was her middle name. Must be Canadian.

Carly Simon

Wendy O Williams

🤣Upset much, OP ?

Helen Reddy Puffed on my Magic Dragon.

Laura Brannigan

Annie Lennox

Shirley Bassey

OP's Momma.

She's got a wicked past. Think Melania the "model" ...........

Fearless warrior Cyndi Lauper and her raging battle with psoriasis.

Laura Branigan

Ellen - The Hateful Dyke

What should an Ellen biopic be called?

The Dyke Wears Prada?

Mommie Dykest?

The Queen of Mean

I Could Go on Cunting

The Devil Wears Men’s Warehouse

My Life Partner’s Keeper

One Flew Over the Malibu Mansion Flipper

The Iron Dyke

The Sinful Dyke

Take This Dyke and Shove It!

Jobriath

Female Trouble - The Rise of Fall of Ellen D.

Dorothy Hamill

Carlotta Romero

Grace Foster

Lisa Hartman

Shirley Bassey already had a tv biopic.

Evie Sands!

I really want to make a movie about her....

Debbie Harry

I'd rather see a biopic on Canada's answer to Reddy -- Anne Murray

Let’s not.

OMG 😱😳- I thought Helen Reddy WAS Anne Murray!!!

Jodie Sweetin

Maureen McCormick

Linda Blair

Brian Bonsall

Leif Garrett

Florence Henderson

R112 As a Canadian, I actually am surprised that there hasn't been an Anne Murray tv-movie produced by the CBC.

At least we have this.

R94 Shirley Bassy already has a biopic!

Nobody.

WE KNOW R118

Helen Lawson

R119 you mean Sylvia?

I want a movie version of the Klaus Kinski / Werner Herzog documentary, with Christoph Walz as Kinski

Helen at a recent concert.

a reminder to anyone weighing in that a good movie biopic is not about the quality of someone's life or accomplishments. It's about the pursuit of a single goal or relationship in that person's life during a very short period of time. and then its about the take or angle created by the person writing it.

Klaus Nomi

Flipper.

Georgette

William Haines

R129 Good pick but I don't want Ryan Murphy anywhere near its production.