Melanie Griffith

In her book A Paper Life, the Oscar-winning actress Tatum O'Neal alleges that at age 12, Melanie Griffith dragged her into an opium-fuelled orgy in Paris, along with another actress and the boyfriend of one of the actresses. She returned to the screen three more times, playing Claire Quintana in the 1969 film Death of a Gunfighter, Glinda the Good Witch in The Wiz (1978), with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, and co-hosting the 1994 MGM retrospective That's Entertainment! III. Griffith has three children; Dakota Johnson, Alexander Bauer, and Stella Banderas. Disenchanted with Hollywood by the mid-1950s, and increasingly focused on her nightclub career, she only made two major appearences in MGM films during the decade, 1950's Duchess of Idaho (which was also Eleanor Powell's film swan song), and the 1956 musical Meet Me in Las Vegas. The couple divorced again in 1996 and Griffith married her current husband Antonio Banderas that same year. (As a result, most of Horne's film appearances were standalone sequences that had no bearing on the rest of the film, so editing caused no disruption to the storyline.) She was originally considered for the lead role in the 1951 version of Show Boat but Ava Gardner was given the role instead. She remarried Johnson in 1989. She later appeared in a number of MGM musicals, most notably Cabin in the Sky, but was never featured in a leading role due to her race and the fact that films featuring her had to be reedited for showing in southern states where theatres could not show films with African-American performers.

She was married to Steven Bauer from 1980 to 1987. She was the first African American performer to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio, and became famous in 1943 for her rendition of Stormy Weather in the movie of the same name. She was briefly married to Don Johnson in 1976. While she has recorded and performed extensively with jazz musicians (notably Artie Shaw and Teddy Wilson), she is usually not considered a jazz singer because she does not improvise. Griffith has married four times. Lena Calhoun Horne (born June 30, 1917) is an American popular singer. DeMented (2000). Being Myself (1998; Blue Note).

Other major roles include Body Double (1984), Something Wild (1986), Working Girl (1988), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), Milk Money (1994), Another Day in Paradise (1998) and Cecil B. An Evening with Lena Horne (1995; Blue Note) - Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Her first major role was in Night Moves in 1975. We'll Be Together Again (1994; Blue Note). Griffith began working in films at an early age as an extra on Smith! (1969) and The Harrad Experiment (1973). The Men in My Life (1988; Three Cherries). She is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren and Peter Griffith. The Lady and Her Music (1981; Qwest) - Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.