Cher (singer)

Compilations are only listed if they have charted. She is reported to be working on an autobiography. Her most recent public appearance was as a presenter at the 75th Annual Academy Awards in 2003. The former manager of successful '70s Australian pop band Sherbet, Davies' company also manages Tina Turner, Sade, Pink, Joe Cocker and Tony Joe White. A resident of Paris since the 1950s, de Havilland lives in retirement and makes appearances rarely. Cher is managed by expatriate Australian impresario Roger Davies. She was reported to have declined the role of Blanche du Bois in A Streetcar Named Desire, citing the unsavoury nature of the some elements of the script, and saying there were certain lines she could not allow herself to speak. She continued acting until the 1980s. Among her many achievements, Cher is the only recording artist in history to score #1 hits in four successive decades and she also holds the Billboard record for the longest time span --34 years-- between her first #1 hit in 1965 and her most recent #1 in 1999. De Havilland appeared sporadically in films after the 1950s, and attributed this partly to the growing permissiveness of Hollywood films of the period.

However, while this tour may be her last, it shows no signs of terminating in the near future; it has included over 200 shows and continues to add new venues. She won Best Actress Academy Awards for To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949), and was also widely praised for her Academy Award nominated performance in The Snake Pit (1948). This was one of the earliest films to attempt a realistic portrayal of mental illness, and de Havilland was lauded for her willingness to play a role that was completely devoid of glamour and, which confronted such controversial subject matter. She therefore embarked on her last-ever world-wide tour (the Farewell Tour), her most spectacular and best-received tour ever. The quality and variety of her roles began to improve. In the same year, she was told that for health reasons she would no longer be able to perform live. Her courage in mounting such a challenge, and her subsequent victory, won her the respect and admiration of her peers. In 2004 she was nominated for a Grammy for "Best Dance Recording" for her song "Love One Another" but she lost to Australian Kylie Minogue. The decision was one of the most significant and far reaching legal rulings until that time in Hollywood.

1 in the charts for seven weeks and is the all-time biggest-selling single by a solo female artist. De Havilland mounted a lawsuit in the 1940s and was successful, thereby reducing the power of the studios and extending greater creative freedom to the performers. In the United Kingdom, "Believe" stayed at No. Most accepted this situation, while a few tried to change the system; Bette Davis had mounted an unsuccessful lawsuit against Warner Brothers Studios in the 1930s. With the success of Believe, Cher became the oldest woman in the rock era to have a Number One hit. In theory this allowed a studio to maintain indefinite control over an uncooperative contractree. In 1998 she had one of the biggest successes of her recording career with the number one hit Believe and the million selling album of the same name which won her a Grammy Award. The law allowed for studios to suspend contract players for rejecting a role, and for the period of suspension to be added to the contract period.

The album was written after a retreat to a poetry class in France; it was rejected by record labels and Cher chose to sell it on her Web site, with limited success. She felt that she had proven herself to be capable of playing more than the demure ingenues and damsels in distress that were quickly typecasting her, and began to reject scripts that offered her this type of role. One exception was her alternative-rock album entitled Not.Commercial (pronounced "not-dot-com-mercial"). Also by this time De Havilland was becoming increasingly frustrated by the roles being assigned to her. Her ability to reinvent herself has allowed her to continue performing and creating successful recordings for more than 35 years. The sisters have remained estranged since this time. Cher is of Armenian descent. He records that the sisters had an uneasy relationship, and though each has refused to comment, Higham has stated that this event was the catalyst for what would become a lifelong fued.

Following the devastating earthquake that hit Armenia in December of 1988, Cher travelled to the country to participate in the relief activities. Biographer Charles Higham has described the events of the award ceremony, stating that as Fontaine stepped forward to collect her award, she had pointedly rejected de Havilland's attempts at congratulating her, and that de Havilland was both offended and embarrassed by her behavior. In 1989 she scored another million-selling #1 hit with the song If I Could Turn Back Time. Fontaine won for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941) over de Havilland's nomination for Hold Back the Dawn (1941). This finally allowed her to make the transition into a successful acting career, starring in films including Silkwood (nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), Mask (for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award in 1985), Suspect, Moonstruck (for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1988), Mermaids and Tea With Mussolini. De Havilland and her sister Fontaine, were each nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942. Once again the critics praised her work and she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. She played Melanie Wilkes in Gone With The Wind (1939) and received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination for her performance.

The reviews she received were glowing and she was cast in the film version, directed by Robert Altman. She appeared as Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), and played opposite Errol Flynn in such highly popular films as Captain Blood and The Charge of the Light Brigade (both 1936), and as Maid Marian to Flynn's Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). For several years she worked at trying to secure a role to prove herself, until she was cast in a stage production of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. De Havilland's career began in Alibi Ike in 1935. Cher had demonstrated her considerable comedic talents in the various skits she performed on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, and while she was highly regarded in this arena, her ambition to develop a movie career was at first not taken seriously. Her sister is the actress Joan Fontaine (born 1917), from whom she is famously estranged. Cher and Allman divorced in 1979 and she later had a relationship with guitarist Les Dudek. She is the daughter of British parents, patent attorney Walter de Havilland, and actress Lillian Fontaine.

In 1978, Cher was romantically linked with Gene Simmons of KISS. Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916 in Tokyo, Japan), is a US film actress. She has two children, Chastity Bono and Elijah Blue Allman. De Havilland was good friends with actress Bette Davis. Cher and Bono divorced in 1974, and she later married rock musician Gregg Allman, a member of the Allman Brothers Band. Subsequently, the school's theater is named after her. During the early Seventies, Cher began to establish herself as a solo recording artist with producer Snuff Garrett, and she scored three U.S. #1 hits with the songs Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves (1971), Half-Breed (1973), and Dark Lady (1974). De Havilland attended Los Gatos High School in Los Gatos, California as a teen.

She later hosted and performed in her own variety TV series, which ran for two seasons and concluded in 1977. It was a surprise hit and ran for four seasons before the duo decided to end its run; Cher announced her intent to separate from Sonny. After their career stalled (their bubble-gum pop was not popular in an era of edgier tunes), CBS head of programming Fred Silverman gave the duo their own show, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, in 1971. and The U.S.A.

Cher became famous as one of the pop music duo Sonny and Cher with her first husband, Sonny Bono. Together, they had a number one single called "I Got You Babe" (1965) in both the U.K. Cher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPière on May 20, 1946) is a world-famous actress and singer. 2001 "The Music's No Good Without You" #8 UK. from "Living Proof"