Cher fought long and hard to be taken seriously as an actress, and this March we bow down to the all-singing, all-dancing, all-acting wonder that is Cherilyn Sarkisian with four of her most riveting on-screen performances, including Peter Bogdanovich's MASK (screening in the director’s cut), George Miller’s THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK, the coming-of-age film MERMAIDS, and MOONSTRUCK, which garnered her an Academy Award.

“There’ve been lots of trashy vamps who’ve been really good actresses. I mean there’s been lots of trashy people. Marilyn Monroe was a great actress; she was a real trashy woman… How about Mae West? How about Hedy Lamarr? How about Ava Gardner? How about all kinds of actresses who lived a life that makes me look like f–ing Mary Poppins, you know?….I could look right if that’s all it was about. I know how to dress, you know? Like a Mom, if I want to; but I don’t know what it has to do with who I am, or what my acting skills are.” -Cher in a 1988 interview for Film Comment Magazine