Adorable Throwback Photos of Longtime Loves Phoebe Cates and Kevin Kline (2024)

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Phoebe Cates (Then)

Phoebe Cates had already appeared in the now-forgotten “Paradise,” in which she did several nude scenes at just 17, before performing her memorable bikini drop as Linda Barrett in “Fast Times.”

A 19yr old PHOEBE CATES on set of the comedy/romance film "Private School" (1983) Why does she have limp sausages for fingers? Looks exactly the same but less film grain lol.

Louis, Missouri on October 24, 1947. He has been married to Phoebe Cates since 1989. They have two children.

They have two children

"That was one of the many things I loved about her," he explained. "She loved acting while she was doing it, but she was not driven by it, as I had been." Cates, Kline and their kids appeared in Cates's Fast Times costar Jennifer Jason-Leigh's The Anniversary Party in 2001.

Casting. Nicolas Cage made his feature-film debut, portraying an unnamed co-worker of Brad's at All-American Burger, credited as "Nicolas Coppola". It was also the film debut for Eric Stoltz and provided early roles for Anthony Edwards and Forest Whitaker.

After the paper is passed out, the students put the page up to their noses and deeply inhale. This was a popular school ritual of the 1960s, '70s, and early '80s as photocopying machines were very expensive, so ditto machines were used. The resulting copies did not get you high, but they smelled good.

In 1994, after starring in Princess Caraboo, Cates stepped away from acting to focus on raising her children, Owen and Greta (via the New Zealand Herald), who have since become a successful filmmaker and musician, respectively.

The nineteen-year-old Leigh was cast in part because of how young she looked; when Stacy assures a flirtatious older customer at the pizza shop where she works that she's nineteen, our gut sense is that he knows she's lying.

Phoebe Cates became a star in the 1980s but hasn't appeared in a movie in over two decades. Cates retired from acting in 1994 to focus on raising her children and only made a brief comeback in 2001. Cates now owns a boutique in New York and may consider returning to acting if the right opportunity comes along.

Though he plays an American, the role required Kline to be fluent. He studied French in junior high, high school and college, but he says that he didn't really learn to speak until a 1995 movie role rekindled his interest.

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He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the 1988 heist comedy film A Fish Called Wanda, for which he was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

She is good friends with actress Jennifer Jason Leigh. They met while filming Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) together.

Phoebe Cates and Kevin Kline first met while auditioning for 1983's The Big Chill. Cates didn't get the part she was vying for, but she did get a lifelong partner in Kline.

They have two children, Owen Joseph Kline (born 1991); and Greta Kline (born 1994), who fronts the band Frankie Cosmos. The Kevin Kline Awards honor theatre professionals in St. Louis in an array of categories, including best actor and actress, set design, choreography, and new play or musical.

The majority of the kids in this movie are supposed to be between 15 and 18. The actors, however, check in at 21 (Sean Penn), 19 (Jennifer Jason Leigh), 24 (Judge Reinhold), 25 (Robert Romanus), 25 (Brian Backer), and 20 (Forest Whitaker). Only Phoebe Cates, at 18, and Nicolas Cage, at 17, were in the proper age range.

The nineteen-year-old Leigh was cast in part because of how young she looked; when Stacy assures a flirtatious older customer at the pizza shop where she works that she's nineteen, our gut sense is that he knows she's lying.

Cage was 17 — an ideal SoCal specimen — and desperate for a breakout role when the movie entered production in 1981. He became a leading contender to play Brad Hamilton, the co*cky high-school senior who works a demoralizing fast-food job and fantasizes about his sister's attractive best friend.

Sean Penn was 22 when he played Jeff Spicoli. And he was fully immersed in the role to the point that he didn't allow the crew to call him by his real name - he was Spicoli 100 percent of the time. Also, the actor extinguished a cigarette in the palm of his hand to better understand and play his character.