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  Flashdance 1983 - USA

 

Director - Adrian Lyne
Writing credits - Joe Eszterhas Thomas Hedley Jr.

 
 
 

- Flashdance stars Jennifer Beals as a young woman working in a steel mill who works as an exotic dancer at night trying to reach her dream of being a ballet dancer. Music credit to Giorgio Moroder.
 Moroder, Irene Cara and Keith Forsey won Best Song in the 1983 Academy Awards for Flashdance (What A Feeling).



Jennifer Beals

 

Track listing:
1. Flashdance (What A Feeling)
- Irene Cara - Lyric
2. He's A Dream - Shandi
3. Imagination - Laura Branigan
4. Romeo - Donna Summer - Lyric
5. Lady Lady Lady - Joe Esposito
6. Manhunt - Karen Kamon
7. Maniac - Michael Sembello
8. I'll Be Here Where The Heart Is - Kim Carnes
9. Seduce Me Tonight - Cycle V
10. Love Theme - Helen St. John


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Billboard wrote about the soundtrack:
Billboard reviewed for week ending 5/7/83
This album explodes on the pop chart this week, leaping from 166 to 29. That's a spectacular jump, but it perhaps shouldn't be too surprising. The album was composed by Giorgio Moroder, whose "American Gigolo" soundtrack in 1980 went top 10, and the title track is sung by Irene Cara, whose "Fame" single and soundtrack also went top 10. Most of the music on the album is trendy, urban dance rock, though there are also a few ballads, including a torchy tune by Kim Carnes (produced by Keith Olsen). But the most interesting facet of the album is that it mixes cuts by dance queen Donna Summer and aspirants to the throne Irene Cara and Laura Branigan.

 


  Jernnifer Beals and
Michael Nouri
 
Breakdance on the street
     
The Cast for the Movie "Flashdance"

Jennifer Beals ...Alex Owens
Michael Nouri ...Nick Hurley
Lilia Skala ...Hanna Long
Sunny Johnson ...Jeanie Szabo
Kyle T. Heffner ...Richie
Lee Ving ...Johnny C.
Ron Karabatsos ...Jake Mawby
Belinda Bauer ...Katie Hurley
Malcolm Danare ...Cecil
Philip Bruns ...Frank Szabo
Micole Mercurio ...Rosemary Szabo
Lucy Lee Flippin ...Secretary
Don Brockett ...Pete
Cynthia Rhodes ...Tina Tech
Durga McBroom ...Heels
Stacey Pickren ...Margo
Liz Sagal ...Sunny
Norman Scott ...Normski
Marc Lemberger ...Mr. Freeze
Wayne Frost ...Frosty Freeze
Kenneth Gabbert ...Prince Ken Smith
Richard Colon ...Crazy Legs
Robert Wuhl ...Mawby's Regular
Steve Price ...Mawby's Regular
Matt Landers ...Mawby's Regular
Darren Roy ...Mawby's Regular
Frank Pesce ...Mawby's Regular
Larry John Meyers ...Welder #1
David DiManna ...Welder #2
Helen Dexter ...Dancer at Repertory #1
Mark Anthony Moschello ...Dancer at Repertory #2
Debra Gordon ...Dancer at Repertory #3
Erika Leslie ...Blonde Skater
Jim McCardle ...Ice Rink Official #1
Ernie Tate ...Ice Rink Official #2
Bettina Birnbaum ...Stripper #1
Deirdre L. Cowden ...Stripper #2
Colin Hamilton ...Maitre D'
Tony De Santis ...Waiter #2
Marjean Dennis ...Woman at Restaurant
Bob Harks ...Priest
Ann Muffly ...Woman at Hanna Long's
Hank Crowell ...Racquetball Player
Frank Tomasello ...Harry
Mike Berro ...5th Dance Judge
Monique Gabrielle ...Stripper

 

 
   
Irene Cara performed the main hit of the soundtrack:
Flashdance... What a Feeling
 

Irene Cara is best known as a singer of movie themes, though she has worked as an actress since her childhood. Raised in New York City, she appeared on Broadway in 1967 in the musical Maggie Flynn at age eight.
She can be heard on the cast album for the show The Me Nobody Knows. From the age of 16, she was turning up on television and in films, including a part in the TV mini-series Roots 2 in 1979. In 1980, she was catapulted into stardom and a singing career by her appearance in the film Fame, for which she sang the title song, an Oscar-winning Top Ten hit. Also from the film was her Top 40 hit "Out Here on My Own."
In 1983, she topped the charts with "Flashdance ... What a Feelin'," from the movie Flashdance , a song she co-wrote that won another Oscar, while Cara also won a couple of Grammys for her contributions to the soundtrack. Her What a Feelin' album included the hits "Why Me?" and "Breakdance," and she also made the Top 40 with a third movie theme, "The Dream (Hold On to Your Dream)," from DC Cab.

William Ruhlmann, All-Music Guide

 

Giorgio Moroder won with this soundtrack:
2 Golden Globe:
Best Original Score - Motion Picture
Best Original Song - Motion Picture
Award shared with:
Keith Forsey
Irene Cara - For the song "Flashdance...What a Feeling".

 

2 Grammy Awards
Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television
Award shared with:
Keith Forsey - Irene Cara
For the song "Flashdance...What A Feeling".
Best Instrumental Song for
Love Theme Flashdance

1 Acamy Award - Oscar
 Best Music, Song
Award shared with:
Keith Forsey ( lyrics )
Irene Cara ( lyrics )
For the song "Flashdance...What a Feeling".


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