MADONNA ~~ RARE '80s Paparazzi B&W Candid Photos

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MADONNA -  2 ORIGINAL 8" x 10" B&W  PHOTOS
RARE PAPARAZZI IMAGES
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The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide. Her film career, however, is another story. Her performances have consistently drawn scathing or laughable reviews from film critics, and the films have usually had tepid, if any, success at the box office. Born Madonna Louise Ciccone in August 1958 in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York in 1978 and studied with renowned choreographer
Alvin Ailey
, joined up with the
Patrick Hernandez
Revue, formed a pop/dance band called "Breakfast Club" and began working with then-boyfriend
Stephen Bray
on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J.
Mark Kamins
passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums, and her musical and fashion influence on young women was felt around the globe. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience:
A Certain Sacrifice
(1979) and
Vision Quest
(1985). However, she scored a minor cult hit with
Desperately Seeking Susan
(1985) starring alongside spunky
Rosanna Arquette
. Madonna's next effort with then husband
Sean Penn
,
Shanghai Surprise
(1986), was savaged by critics, although the resilient star managed to somewhat improve her standing with her next two films, the off-beat
Who's That Girl
(1987) (although she did receive decidedly mixed reviews, they weren't as negative as those of her previous effort) and the quirky
Damon Runyon
-inspired
Bloodhounds of Broadway
(1989). The big-budget and star-filled
Dick Tracy
(1990) had her playing bad girl "Breathless Mahoney" flirting with
Warren Beatty
, but the epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside
Tom Hanks
and
Geena Davis
in
A League of Their Own
(1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit
Body of Evidence
(1992), an obvious (and lame) attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy
Sharon Stone
thriller
Basic Instinct
(1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as
Eva Perón
in
Evita
(1996), a fairly well received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the movie cameras for several years, returning to co-star in the lukewarm romantic comedy
The Next Best Thing
(2000), followed by the painful
Swept Away
(2002) for husband
Guy Ritchie
. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure
Die Another Day
(2002). After finally admitting that her acting days were over, Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the barely remembered
Filth and Wisdom
(2008) and a year later she reunited with
Madonna: Truth or Dare
(1991) director
Alek Keshishian
to develop a script about the relationship between the
Duke of Windsor
and the
Duchess of Windsor
that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named
W.E.
(2011), starring
James D'Arcy
and
Andrea Riseborough
as the infernal but still royal couple, was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for "Masterpiece".