All All. Sign In. Top Greatest Female Singers. List activity. The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops re-inventing herself, Madonna 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.
Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early and the rest is history. The s 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 and Vision Quest However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. Madonna's next effort with then husband Sean Penn , Shanghai Surprise , was savaged by critics, although the resilient star managed to somewhat improve her standing with her next two films, the offbeat Who's That Girl 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 The big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy had her playing bad girl "Breathless Mahoney" flirting with Warren Beatty , but the epic failed to catch fire at the box office.
However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the sexy whodunit Body of Evidence 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 , followed by the painful Swept Away If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day After finally admitting that her acting days were over, Madonna began a directing career in with the barely remembered Filth and Wisdom and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare 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 the result, a movie named W.
Diana Ross. Best known as the the lead singer of the popular s singing group The Supremes , Diana Ernestine Earle Ross was born on March 26, , in Detroit, Michigan, the second of six children of African-American parents Ernestine Lillian Moten , a schoolteacher, and Fred Earl Ross, who served in the army.
