The film’s success promised more roles – and, alas, more screen time – for Madonna. Thankfully, they came no more than one or two at a time, leaving enough space for actors Rosanna Arquette – as a suburban wife with memory loss, who thinks she’s Madonna’s Susan – and Aidan Quinn, who thinks that he has landed a free-loving material girl. In “Susan,” she had style, she had grace – but when it came time for her to deliver her lines, things got ugly. Fishnet stockings and other punk garb now flooded the mainstream, not to mention her hit “Get Into the Groove” ruling the airwaves. Thus, the film became a trendsetting phenomenon, not in filmmaking but in the worlds of fashion and pop. Since Madonna’s discomfort on screen was evident, the filmmakers were wise enough to keep her role minimal, while gladly exploiting her fame and style for profit. She had appeared in the underground film “A Certain Sacrifice,” made in 1979 but released in 1985 to capitalize on her rising fame, though her true debut came the same year with “Desperately Seeking Susan,” a New York drama about memory loss in which she was really a side player (albeit the title character). Yet her rise didn’t obscure her humble entry into the movies. Or rather, with the star’s funky visual style all over MTV at the time, the red carpet was dragged right to her feet. Like Prince in her own time, and Elvis years earlier, 1980s pop queen Madonna rode the airwaves right to the big screen.
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