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Butterfly is a 1982 American independent crime drama film co-written and directed by Matt Cimber, based on the 1947 novel The Butterfly by James M. Cain. The starring cast includes Stacy Keach, Pia Zadora, Lois Nettleton, Ed McMahon, James Franciscus, Edward Albert, and Orson Welles. The original music score was composed by Ennio Morricone.
Pia Zadora (born Pia Alfreda Schipani; May 4, 1954) [1] is an American actress and singer. ... Butterfly, she won a Golden Globe Award as New Star of the Year [3] ...
The film was Pia Zadora's second lead role in a feature. All her first three starring roles in films were financed by the company of her then husband Meshulam Riklis (the others were Butterfly and The Lonely Lady). [1] [2] Matt Cimber, who directed Butterfly, also made Fake Out. [3]
Pia Zadora – Butterfly as Kady Tyler. Elizabeth McGovern – Ragtime as Evelyn Nesbit; Howard E. Rollins, Jr. – Ragtime as Coalhouse Walker, Jr. Kathleen Turner ...
In 1982, Keach starred in Butterfly with Pia Zadora and Orson Welles. In the 1993 movie, Body Bags he played a man who is obsessed with hair. He portrayed a white supremacist in American History X, alongside Edward Norton and Edward Furlong.
Riklis had already funded the 1982 film Butterfly as a vehicle for his wife Pia Zadora, and he wanted The Lonely Lady to serve the same purpose. Riklis reportedly supplied approximately half of the film's $6–7 million budget, along with completion costs, but refused any mention in credits.
Meshulam Riklis, a billionaire businessman best known as the husband of actress Pia Zadora and the fulcrum of a Golden Globes scandal in the 1980s, has died in a Tel Aviv hospital, according to ...
John Call stars as Santa Claus, ten-year-old Pia Zadora as Girmar the Martian girl, and Doris Rich in the first documented motion picture role of Mrs. Claus. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians regularly appears on lists of the worst films ever made and in the "bottom 100" list on IMDb.