{"id":1924,"date":"2026-01-06T03:17:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2026-01-06T03:17:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:17:48","slug":"remember-her-she-was-so-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=1924","title":{"rendered":"Remember her? She was so pretty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"253\"><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"14\">Early Fame<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"253\">Phoebe Cates rose to fame as a teen idol,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"253\">appearing in popular films like <em data-start=\"91\" data-end=\"121\">Fast Times at Ridgemont High<\/em> and <em data-start=\"126\" data-end=\"136\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Gremlins<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"253\">Born in 1963, she made 16 movies in 12 years, becoming<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"253\">\u201cinstantly recognisable to most American teens of this era.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"253\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33406 bdaia-img-show\" title=\"Phoebe Cates is still stunning\u2026\" src=\"https:\/\/writical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PP.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" alt=\"Phoebe Cates is still stunning\u2026\" width=\"840\" height=\"469\" data-layzr-srcset=\"https:\/\/writical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PP.png 637w, https:\/\/writical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PP-537x300.png 537w, https:\/\/writical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PP-600x335.png 600w\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"255\" data-end=\"488\"><strong data-start=\"255\" data-end=\"279\">Behind the Spotlight<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"255\" data-end=\"488\">Cates began as a model but disliked it, saying,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"255\" data-end=\"488\">\u201cit was basically the same thing over and over\u2026 I only did it for the money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"255\" data-end=\"488\">Early roles brought attention but also discomfort, especially when filmed young.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"255\" data-end=\"488\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33400 bdaia-img-show\" src=\"https:\/\/writical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P1.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"1070\" data-layzr-srcset=\"https:\/\/writical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P1.png 516w, https:\/\/writical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/1_P1-236x300.png 236w, https:\/\/writical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P1-314x400.png 314w\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"490\" data-end=\"680\"><strong data-start=\"490\" data-end=\"514\">Artistic Preferences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"490\" data-end=\"680\">Though successful on screen, Cates preferred theater.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"490\" data-end=\"680\">In 1988 she said, \u201cI think of theater as what I prefer to do best,\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"490\" data-end=\"680\">noting film roles for women felt limited.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"490\" data-end=\"680\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33403 bdaia-img-show\" src=\"https:\/\/writical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P4.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" alt=\"\" width=\"838\" height=\"1051\" data-layzr-srcset=\"https:\/\/writical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P4.png 526w, https:\/\/writical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/1_P4-239x300.png 239w, https:\/\/writical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P4-319x400.png 319w\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"682\" data-end=\"898\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><strong data-start=\"682\" data-end=\"706\">Life After Hollywood<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"682\" data-end=\"898\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">She left acting in the mid-1990s to focus on family with husband Kevin Kline.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"682\" data-end=\"898\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Later, she opened a New York boutique and made only rare acting appearances,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"682\" data-end=\"898\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">choosing a quieter, balanced life.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"682\" data-end=\"898\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33405 bdaia-img-show\" src=\"https:\/\/writical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P6.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" alt=\"\" width=\"826\" height=\"772\" data-layzr-srcset=\"https:\/\/writical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P6.png 779w, https:\/\/writical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P6-321x300.png 321w, https:\/\/writical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P6-427x400.png 427w, https:\/\/writical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/1_P6-768x719.png 768w\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Fame Phoebe Cates rose to fame as a teen idol, appearing in popular films like Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Gremlins. Born in 1963, she made 16 movies in 12 years, becoming \u201cinstantly recognisable to most American teens of this era.\u201d Behind the Spotlight Cates began as a model but disliked it, saying,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}