Melanie Griffith
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| Name: | Melanie Griffith | |
| Status | Alive | |
| Age: | 67 (August 9, 1957) | |
| IMDB: | IMDb | |
| TMDB: | TMDB | |
| Smoking Status: | Unknown | |
| Type of Celebrity: | Actor | |
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| TMDB Popularity | 33.001 | |
| Biography (TMDB): | Melanie Richards Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American actress. She began her career in the 1970s, appearing in several independent thriller films before achieving mainstream success in the mid-1980s. Born in New York City to actress Tippi Hedren and advertising executive Peter Griffith, she was raised mainly in Los Angeles, where she graduated from the Hollywood Professional School at age 16. In 1975, a then 17-year-old Griffith appeared opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penn's film noir Night Moves. She later rose to prominence for her role portraying a pornographic actress in Brian De Palma's thriller Body Double (1984), which earned her a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. Griffith's subsequent performance in the comedy Something Wild (1986) garnered critical acclaim before she was cast in 1988's Working Girl, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her a Golden Globe. The 1990s had Griffith in a series of roles that received varying critical reception; she received Golden Globe nominations for her performances in Buffalo Girls (1995), and as Marion Davies in RKO 281 (1999), while also earning a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for her performances in Shining Through (1992), as well as receiving nominations for Crazy in Alabama (1999) and John Waters' cult film Cecil B. Demented (2000). Other credits include John Schlesinger's Pacific Heights (1990), Milk Money (1994), the neo-noir film Mulholland Falls (1996), as Charlotte Haze in Adrian Lyne's Lolita (1997), and Another Day in Paradise (1998). She later starred as Barbara Marx in The Night We Called It a Day (2003), and spent the majority of the 2000s appearing on such television series as Nip/Tuck, Raising Hope, and Hawaii Five-0. After acting on stage in London, in 2003, she made her Broadway debut in a revival of the musical Chicago, receiving celebratory reviews. In the 2010s, Griffith returned to film, starring opposite then-husband Antonio Banderas in the science-fiction film Autómata (2014) and as an acting coach in James Franco's The Disaster Artist (2017). Description above from the Wikipedia article Melanie Griffith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. |
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Movies
A Stranger Among Us
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Many scenes of long all-white cigarettes smoking. great scenes of her with ultra long whites. She is on my top 10 list. |
Another Day in Paradise
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In the trailer, Griffith smokes in several scenes, including a smoke-rings exhale. Wagner is also shown smoking in several scenes. |
Celebrity
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Griffith has one good drag, Neuwirth smokes with a holder, often biting on it when not puffing. Ryder has three great scenes, with some nose exhales and smoke talk. Theron smokes long brown cigarettes in all of her scenes, with extreme cheek hollowing inhales and some french inhales. She often puts it between her teeth before inhaling. Mol has one drag off of a joint. Pantaeva briefly smokes a pipe. |
Crazy in Alabama
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Holds in a car...no visible exhales. |
Fear City
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0:25 - MG raises lit cig to her lips, but cut away. 0:28 - RDC puts an all-white in her mouth to light just before she's cut by attacker. 0:41 - MG is handed lit cig, takes a drag. 1:23 - MG, one exhale, then 2 more a min later outdoors. |
Forever Lulu
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She smokes practically throughout the whole movie |
In the Spirit
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only holds once |
Joyride
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I think all [Griffith] had was one drag, not done too badly, from a cigar |
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[Verbaan] lightup and several smoking visualy |
Lolita
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[Winters] Uses a holder in her first scene. Lost of grand gesturing. |
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Griffith smokes quite a bit early in the movie. Unfiltered cigs (50's). Dominique Swain (only 14 at the time, obviously not IRL), has one scene at the end in which she mainly just holds. Her character is pregnant at the time, if that appeals to anyone. |
Now and Then
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Melanie Griffith, a very accomplished smoker, has a textbook-perfect exhale. Demi Moore also smokes a cigarette, but gives disappointing exhales. In another scene, three girls take their first cigarettes from a Vietnam vet. Ricci, Birch and Hoffman all light up. We don't see much more than holding with Ricci and Hoffman, but Thora Birch, playing a 12-year-old girl, is shown dragging and exhaling about three times. I don't know how old Thora is, but she looked comfortable (and nice) smoking. |
RKO 281
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Griffith and Hille share a non-filter in an early scene. Shaw smokes through a holder in two scenes. Best is a nose-and-mouth exhale from Blethyn. |
Searching for Debra Winger
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Plenty of holding, inhale/exhales from Plimpton, Griffith, B%art, Arquette, Lynch. Given that most of the two dozen women in the movie are IRLs, could have been much better. |
Shade
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Newton doesn't smoke until 30 mins in, but after that, she smokes pretty nicely in most of scenes. She has several lightups, some nice inhales, her exhales could have been better, but she has a few good ones. One additional inhale in the 'Making of' featurette. Griffith has only a small role in the movie. A couple brief shots of her with a cigarette close to her mouth, but it didnt look like she ever dragged on it. |
Shadow of Doubt
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[Griffith] There are (approximately) half dozen smoking scenes, most of which are standard fare (you see just enough to tease you) but there are two fairly good scenes toward the end of the movie |
She's in the Army Now
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Both women smoke all-whites in at least a scene. |
Shining Through
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About three scenes smoking all-whites. In the best scene, she holds her cigarette between her lips while typing, then drags and removes it, with a gorgeously thick nose-and-mouth exhale filmed in profile. Three other scenes follow in quick succession, including smoke trickling lightly through her nostrils and a slight talk-exhale. |
Something Wild
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It's been a long time since I saw it, but my recollection is that Melanie has a couple of holding scenes, while Colin has two or three scenes with one lightup and a couple of nice exhales. |
Stormy Monday
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A recommended performance from a red-haired, slightly overweight Griffith. She has multiple well-lit nose-mouth combo exhales, a talk-exhale and several drags, including one long one in profile. Hoskinson has two inhales with no visible exhales while sitting in a dark car. |
Tart
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Griffith only holds in one scene. Phillips holds in one scene, and lights up in another, but it's dark, outdoors and windy during the light-up, so you don't see much. Swain smokes in one scene standing on a sidewalk, but it's hard to see much. Zehetner smokes in that scene, again hard to see, plus dangles in one other. Overall adds up to very little. |
Tempo
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Nicolette smokes in two scenes. In the first one she lights up a cigarette and takes one drag with exhale. The second scene she takes one drag lying in bed. |
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[Griffith] lights up a Marlboro Reds in a couple of scenes. Very nice smoking done by [Griffith]. [Cook] dangles a all-white (Salems to be exact) but never lights up. |
The Bonfire of the Vanities
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Kim only has one drag and Melanie only holds one in a party. In the first part of the film, [Cattrall] has dinner on the lawn and smokes with grand style, several puffs with cigarette held high. |
The Night We Called It a Day
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A terrible waste. Griffith only holds in two scenes, camera cutting away before inhales both times. |
Working Girl
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a really brief scene near the beginning of the film, [Griffith] still had long hair. An all-white regular king-size. |
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