Brooke Shields

Last day of "Childhood Celebrity Crush Week!"

There's just no one more beautiful than circa-1980 Brooke Shields. She was the definition of beauty. Brooke's another one of those actresses who was just about everywhere in the late-70's/early-80's. Being a fashion model also added to her exposure.


Her most famous ad campaign was for Calvin Klein Jeans, with Brooke saying "Want to know what gets between me and my Calvins? Nothing".


Below are a few scenes from Brooke's various acting roles...

Alice Sweet Alice (1976) (a.k.a. Communion)
Alice is a withdrawn 12 year old girl who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen (Brooke Shields). Karen gets most of the attention from her mother and Alice is often left out of the spotlight. But when Karen is found brutally murdered in a church before her first holy communion, all suspicions are turned towards Alice. But is a twelve year old girl really capable of such savagery?


Pretty Baby (1978)
It's 1917, and Violet (Brooke Shields) lives in the red-light district of New Orleans known as Storyville with her prostitute mother (Susan Sarandon). On the eve of her 12th birthday, when she'll soon join her mother in life's oldest profession, she meets photographer Ernest Bellocq (Keith Carradine), whom she aspires to marry despite the fact that he's much older. In this scene, Violet tells the house pianist (Antonio Fargas) that her mother just delivered a baby boy...


King of the Gypsies (1978)
Eric Roberts plays defiant gypsy youth Dave Stepanowicz, who tries to turn his back on his legacy but can't escape it when his dying grandfather makes Dave the tribe's new leader. Trouble begins to brew as Dave's father (Judd Hirsch) – who covets the crown – plots his son's downfall. The star-studded cast includes Susan Sarandon, Shelley Winters and Brooke Shields.


Tilt (1979)
Tilt is the story of a young girl, who's a pinball wizard. Because she does not get on with her parents, Tilt (Brooke Shields) is contemplating running away from home, and skipping school one day she decides to play pinball at Mickey's Bar. There she meets and befriends a gambler/hustler and the two hit the road betting and scamming people at various pinball joints. It all leads up to Tilt playing the pinball champ, Harold "The Whale". Here she is hitching a ride with a perverted truck driver (Geoffrey Lewis)...


Wanda Nevada (1979)
Romantic drama following the fortunes of a drifter named Beaudray Demerille (Peter Fonda) who wins a young orphan named Wanda (14 year old Brooke Shields) in a poker game and takes her gold prospecting in the Grand Canyon.


Just You and Me, Kid (1979)
George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by a drug dealer. Here's the scene where George finds a naked Brooke in the trunk of his car...


The Muppet Show (1980)
In this episode of The Muppet Show, Brooke Shields reenacts various scenes from "Alice In Wonderland". Here's the scene where Alice meets the Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar perfectly cast with Sgt. Floyd Pepper...


The Blue Lagoon (1980)
Richard (Christopher Atkins) and Emmeline (Brooke Shields) are two young children who are swept up on a desert island after a shipwreck. The film follows them as they grow up and become more mature, without the intervention of grown ups. Nature takes its course, and Emmeline gets pregnant, totally unaware of the fact that a child is growing inside her. On the night their boy is born, Richard finds out about the origins of the drums they hear from time to time from the forbidden side of the island and realize they must leave.


Endless Love (1981)
Two young kids fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for the parents of Jade (Brooke Shields). Her parents try to stop them from seeing each other but this winds up with their house accidentlly burned down by her boyfriend. After time in a mental institution the boyfriend once again tries to make contact with Jade.


Wet Gold (1984)
Wet Gold is the story of a young woman (Brooke Shields), who works as a waitress in a cafe. Laura stumbles across a drunk elderly man (Burgess Meredith), who fills her with exciting stories of a boat that went down with millions in gold. Together, along with Laura's boyfriend and a dive shop owner, they set off from Key West in search of the gold. But tension fills the air as greed and lust sets in.


Not sure how to end this post so I'll leave you with a photo of Brooke with Gene Simmons of KISS...