Which movies could Cher have starred in?

Crimes of the Heart.

Cher was very good at down to earth, hometown girl type characters.

So I'd agree with Crimes of the Heart. Despite her glam stage persona, she doesn't carry off "glam" or campy movie characters easily.

The King's Speech.

Grease

Burlesque 2: Electric Boogaloo

The thought of Cher in virtually any of the films OP listed is hilarious. Having seen her on stage in Come back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean I would agree that she could probably have done Crimes of the Heart.

"9 to 5" taking Lily Tomlin's place.

Coyote Ugly

I would have love to see her do The Morning After. That would have been quite a stretch but she could have pulled it off.

Cher would be thoroughly wrong casting as someone who was going to be the next Vera Miles

9 to 5 seems like the only logical choice and obviously she'd take Tomlin's role, but could she have done a better job than Tomlin? Not so sure.

Cunt Flap

"Thelma and Louise", as Louise. She was offered the part and turned it down.

Cher as Clarice in SOTL!! Hannibal GETTOUTTAHERE!!

Cher and Faye in the new prestige old folks home erotic lesbian drama “They keep canes here don’t they?”

I don't know how Streisand took 'Yentl' away from her. First 'A Star Is Born' and then 'Yentl' ?

It was down to Cher or Whoopie Goldberg for The Color Purple. Many insiders trashed Spielberg for taking the easy way out.

She was all ready to be Fame’s Coco until notices for The Wiz slammed Diana Ross for stealing the role of an ingénue after which Cher was unceremoniously scratched.

To think Cher was thisclose to getting 'Lady Sings The Blues' until Ross stole it from her. She would have made a great Lady Day.

Private Benjamin was made before Cher's rebirth as an actress.

In all honesty, Cher should have been given the lead in many if not all of the musicals of the past forty years. This aside, she showed tremendous flair for comedy and could easily have fielded some of those decade's biggest hits like 'Splash', 'When Harry Met Sally'. or 'Pretty Woman'. I can also see her making Anjelica Huston completely unnecessary as well.

Cher was a bit mature to be a Pretty Woman.

She passed on the role of Morticia in Adams Family.

R23 she would have looked the part for sure!

Beaches

Peter Bogdanovich said she wasn't a great actress and he had to craft her performance through editing so it was watchable. He's one of the few people with the technical mastery to make a shitty comment like that and you have to take his word for it.

Cher is dyslexic. She can't read. To be a working actress, you have to read or you have to have someone read to you. She did neither. And when she would circle a project, she was a contractual nightmare. What director or producer wants to spend 4-6 months in negotiations when the contract is so onerous that it fucks with filming and reshoots because she had so much else going on?

How could she had done the stage play Jimmy Dean if she couldn't read or be able to remember lines?

She was going to star in Glitter

r27 you mean jimmy dean sausage commercials?

Transamerica

Cher turned down the Sarandon part in "Thelma and Louise." She would have been great. Peter Bogdanovich made 4 good movies in a 50 year career, so who cares about the bullshit that came out of his mouth?

Thelma and Louise sounds like two KICK ASS black women.

Cher was offered the Broadway role of 'Sunset Boulevard' when Buckley was leaving in 1996. ALW really wanted her to take the role - knowing what she would do for his box office; she had such great demands they ended negotiations quickly (she later said, 'He couldn't afford me').

He then offered her the role in his movie version in the early 2000s - she was interested (she said) but it was another dead end for both of them.

Cher in Sophie’s Choice! TAKE EM BOTH GETTOUTTAHERE… soundtrack featuring no.1 dance pop belter “The Choice (ain’t ever easy)”

Evita

The Bodyguard

Dirty Grandpa

The mother in Terms Of Endearment- she would say to the Debra Winger character who's dying of cancer

SNAP OUT OF IT!

How do you feel about Cher instead of Meryl in Postcards from the Edge?

I always wish she had done more comedy even though I voted for "Peggy Sue Got Married" (she would have knocked the famous scene where Peggy Sue speaks to her long-dead grandmother on the phone absolutely out of the park). She has that wonderful deadpan delivery with great timing.

She still regrets being passed over for 'Mahogany' and 'Claudine'.

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

Does she orgasm through a vocoder?

"Cher" as "Mommie Dearest!"

The real Cher said back in the early '80s that she knows her kids will probably write a book about her, too, but that she did the best she could...

Cher almost won the Esther Hoffman role in "A Star is Born", 1976. She would've been perfect.

Cher was originally given the ONJ part in "Xanadu," but a wise Gary Morton talked out of it.

Anjelica Huston is a much better actress than Cher. They just have similar looks.

Except Anjelica sometimes falls into the little girl voice but Cher is all Armenian truck driver.

[quote] Cher was originally given the ONJ part in "Xanadu," but a wise Gary Morton talked out of it.

Lucy's husband Gary Morton ? The same guy who talked Lucille Ball into doing 'Mame' ? That Gary Morton ? And Cher listened to him ?

What did he have to do with Cher at the time ? Was he her agent ?

[quote]How could she had done the stage play Jimmy Dean if she couldn't read or be able to remember lines?

She was fantastic in Come Back the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, r27.

The Last of the Mohicans

I don't think Cher's a good actress. I saw her in Silkwood, Mask, and Moonstruck and that's what I'm basing my opinion on.

How about, "None of the above"?

Cher said she turned down "War of the Roses" because she already lived it with Sonny, sharing their mansion the last year or so of their marriage unofficially separated... I think she should have done it anyhow!

I watched Crimes Of The Heart last year for the first time, what a disappointment.

I'm still disappointed that she passed up the 1991 Tina Turner bio, "What's Love Got to Do With It ?" That was Oscar material for sure.

She turned down the role of Baby in Dirty Dancing too.

Cher should do a remake of Mame.

Glendale, California -- a saga about hairy unibrowed men and leased BMWs.

I can't believe she turned down the role of Sandy in 'Grease'.

Alicia Silverstone is lucky Cher turned down the lead role in "Clueless".

I’m always surprised by her range. Give her the part she wants and the odds are good that I’ll like the movie she makes.

When Lucille Ball cast herself as "Mame," her pal Roz Russell aka "Auntie Mame," said that Cher should have played the musical Mame, saying Cher had the "pizzaz."

She’d have been a more interesting Eva Peron than Madge in EVITA

The Accused

Aliens

The Big Chill

A Fish Called Wanda

Elvira, Mistress of The Dark

Overboard

The Shining

Sophie's Choice

Terms of Endearment

The War of The Roses

(it's not to say they wouldn't have a different tone, possibly even changing the narrative... there's several others that come to mind but they would require greater changes.)

My Dinner with André

"Shut up, you crazy bitch!"

In 1990, she auditioned for 'The Prince of Tides' but Streisand said she didn't look 'Jewish enough to play Sue Lowenstein'. Cher said she really wanted to star in this movie, so she was willing to audition for Tom Wingo, but Streisand had already cast Nick Nolte. "Can I audition to play your son Bernard ?" she begged. "Ooops...my fegulah son Jason has that role," Streisand responded.

Princess Leia in Star Wars (1977)

r58

Around the time of Bette Midler's Television aired Gypsy there was talk of Mame with Cher and Annie Get Your Gun" with Dolly.

Yes, and Streisand was going to direct 'Mame'. Then Jerry Herman put the kabosh on it, saying he was planning a B'way revival in 2003 starring Michele Lee. That never happened.

As for Dolly, I never heard about 'Annie Get Your Gun'. I know Herman was planning a revival of 'Hello Dolly', too, in 2005-06 and wanted DP to star in it, but again - nothing happened for another decade.

Someone asked about the "cher can't read" comment. I didnt mean she cant read like she's a complete illiterate. I meant the written word is a struggle and she probably sees a script and thinks "fuck this is going to take a few days to read" while her counterparts are knocking them out in 90 mins or so.

Hollywood stars can be broken into two categories. readers and non readers. 20 years later, you can generally figure out which is which. And if you havent read a script, its a lot easier to let your agents mess around on the negotiation process. when you read something and love it, most actors figure out a way to make the deal happen. They also make movies happen that wouldn't happen otherwise because they're reading writing samples, stuff for their production company, even magazine articles that would make good movies. She is not a reader.

I can see Cher in Driving Miss Daisy. Front seat or back.

[quote] Peter Bogdanovich made 4 good movies in a 50 year career, so who cares about the bullshit that came out of his mouth?

He only directed about 13 or 14 theatrical movies, a couple of them documentaries (which were excellent - the John Ford and the Buster Keaton docs). Harper Lee only wrote one book. As Billy Wilder told Jack Lemmon, you're as good as the best thing you've ever done.

Cher started in movies (as a serious actress) a little old. She was good, she wasn't that good looking.

I was kind of surprised when she was on with Robert Osborne, presenting her 4 film choices, she didn't seem all that bright. He had to step in and talk for her a lot of the time. He did a lot of the talking.

What were her 4 film choices?

R75 One was The White Cliffs Of Dover.

Since You Went Away?

[quote] she didn't seem all that bright.

And you are surprised? She dropped out of school at 16 and in her 70s writes on twitter like a 12 year old.

Maybe also The Enchanted Cottage (1945) because she wanted to remake it.

R78 My mom dropped oout of school at 16 and was very bright.

*out (damn remote keyboard).

His Girl Friday

Peter B is full of shit, and died broke living in an apartment in the Valley with his ex wife and mother in law. Cher had no problem with Robert Altman, Mike Nichols or Norman Jewison.

As for the reading, that poster knows nothing about Cher. Her dyslexia is more pronounced in her writing than her reading. She had to learn multiple songs/sketches weekly on the old Sonny and Cher show.

Cher's movie output was based on one thing- money. She couldn't live the way she wanted on film salaries, compared to touring and residencies. In fact, Cher's mom was the only one supportive of her trying a film career. Managers, most of her family and anyone else that depended on her financially were happy with the status quo of her making a million a month in Vegas- that was big money in the late 70s.

[quote]Peter B is full of shit, and died broke living in an apartment in the Valley with his ex wife and mother in law.

Dying rich = credibility

Cher should have played the child Eponine in the Hugh Jackman’s Les Miz.

The Carol Kane roles in Scroogd and Addams Family.

Evita

R84, nothing to do with credibility. He was an asshole, and a degenerate.

R88 Dorothy Stratton's ex-husband Paul Snider was more my idea of an asshole and a degenerate. Didn't Peter meet Dorothy at the Playboy mansion? Not on exactly like picking her up on a playground.

“MADDDDDDDDDDDD….”

“HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL…”

Could Cher have been Che to Meryl's Eva?

[Quote]Didn't Peter meet Dorothy at the Playboy mansion?

Didn't Peter marry Dorothy's sister?

Yes, he was a sick guy.

R92 I have to say it's weird reading on here about orgies and odd sex practices, and then people say, "But he married his late wife's sister!" Like that's just too perverted.

(In this case, his late girlfriend's sister, I think.)

And what age was the late girlfriend's sister? Barely out of her teens?

Dated at 13 or 14, he married her when she was 20.

Cher as Annie in Hereditary (1982) with Mara hobel as the decapitated daughter, Johnny Depp as the son, Tom selleck in the Gabriel Byrne role and as Joan, the one and only Lainie Kazan.

From director Garry Marshall

Scorcese should cast Cher as the diva in What Happens at Night.

She would have been an entirely different Wendy Torrance.

She would have brought a very fresh interpretation to " Sophie's Choice," and a new meaning to " diversity" in " The Color Purple."

Brokeback Mountain

CHER IS...HARRIET TUBMAN

I wish Cher had done the movie version of Nuts rather than Barbara Streisand. You can actually believe Cher as a high class prostitute.

Chee can do anything!

She would have been a terrific woke Moses in " The Ten Commandments" or The Virgin Mary sitting outside the tomb of Jesus singing," Do you believe in life after love?"

R104 - She could never have remembered Claudia's climactic speech.

Norma Rae. When she stands on the table in the factory Cher sings "Strong Enough".

Chee!