| Brooke Christa Shields New York May 31, 1965. |
| Teri arrived with Brooke and the instant she sat down in front of the camera, she began playing with a box of Ivory Snow. Brooke got the job and her modeling career was launched!!!!!!! 1976 - At eleven years old Brooke was working regularly for the Eileen Ford agency (as their first child model). She also had a small part in a low budget horror movie called "Communion" aka Alice Sweet Alice. 1977 - Woody Allen cast Brooke in Annie Hall. She was only in flashback scenes. When final editing came most of Brooke's scenes were on the cutting room floor. Brooke didn't have time to be heartbroken. French director Louis Malle was looking for the right twelve year old to play Violet in a film called "Pretty Baby". 1978 - Pretty Baby was released and the public outcry was load and strong. Brooke couldn't fathom what the uproar was about. She told "People Magazine" It's only a role. 1978 - Brooke's next big project was a film called "Tilt" with Charles Durning. To help Brooke master the role as a pinball whiz, two pinball machines took up residence in her house so she could practice. Tilt was promoted with blue jeans, tee shirts, pajamas and of course pinball machines. There was also a special line of lunch pails. 1978 - Realizing that Brooke was "hot stuff" - Teri had gone to a New York publisher with stacks of Brooke's - photo's, poems, school essays etc. "The Brooke Book" at a cover price of $3.95. 1979 - In "Just You and Me Kid" originally titled "Two of a Kind", Brooke got the chance to team up with George Burns, one of the most fun loving "Kids" of them all. George gave Brooke a gold charm bracelet and she gave him a pair of Roller Skates. 1979 - In the summer of 1979 Brooke embarked on her seventh motion picture "The Blue Lagoon".When director Randell Kleiser decided to remake The Blue Lagoon, he had one leading lady in mind,Brooke. Christopher Atkins and Brooke were singed for the movie seperately. They neve rscreen tested together, and didn't actually meet until filming began on a remote islan dthe Fijis. The movie was a box office hit! 1980 - When the Calvin Klein Jeans commercials began airing in June 1980 the networks fumed. Brooke pranced out onto the T.V. screen and whispered "Wanna know what comes between me and my Calvins, nothing". ABC rejected it and CBS turned it down stating "It didn't meet our standards of acceptability". Calvin Klein sales skyrocketed. 1986 Princeton Honors graduate in French Literature and a member of The Princeton Triangle Club a theatre group at Princeton University 1995 Broadway musical debut as bad girl Rizzo in a revival of "Grease" . 1996 Made a memorable guest spot on Friends as Joey Tribbiani's stalker and was offered her on Sitcom 1996 suddenly sitcom star, Brooke was cast as Susan Keane Browne in the NBC sitcom, Suddenly Susan. During her 4-year gig she was nominated for 2 People's Choice Awards. 2004 Starred as Ruth Sherwood in the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of "Wonderful Town". (2004) 2005 Made her London stage debut playing Roxie Hart in the West End production of "Chicago" 2005 Her book "Down Came The Rain" debuted at number six on The New York Times Best Sellers list. When suffering debilitating depression after the birth of her daughter, she made the decision to put her feelings down on paper. Her book, "Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression" takes a hard, honest look at what she and many other women experience after childbirth. |
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