Speaking and writting about Michelle Pfeiffer is something very special for me, because I’m a great fan and admirer of her. But it could say that what I think about her, and I go to tell and expose next is something that, also, a lot of other fans could write, whose thoughts are mine too.

Michelle Pfeiffer isn’t only one of the best, for not say the best one, actresses of her generation but also one of the most beautiful and attractive women in cinema today, for not say the most beautiful and attractive one. Her beauty is so big that dazzle and hide her immense talent for the big public, charmed for her feline and ethereal beauty. But if her beauty is magnificent, her talent is not less magnificent, although many times not as grateful as it deserves, specially by the Hollywood members academy, who have refused give her the oscar that she deserves so much once and again. Her range of interpretative stops is so big and mixed that nobody could say that all her roles have been played by the same woman. The fact that the feline, sexy, sensual and evil Catwoman, the naïve, shy and clumsy secretary Selina Kyle, the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska, the long-suffering, weak and virtuous Madame de Tourvel, the egocentric, hard and selfish Ingrid Magnussen, the eccentric and sweet Lurene Hallet, the selfish and hyperactive Rita Harrison, the sensual, hot and gorgeous singer Susie Diamond, the disbeliever and hited by the life waitress Frankie, the brave and intelligent Katia Orlova and the bewitched and charming Isabeau D’Anjou are all the same person is something that nobody could believe, specially from somebody who has declared in many times that “I’m afraid that somebody discover some day that I’m a fraud and I don’t know how to act”.

When I saw her in Ladyhawke she still didn’t attract my attention, but I realised in a moment that this girl with golden hair and blue eyes was something more that just a simple actress, there were something more in her. I fell in love with her definitively in Married To The Mob, I couldn’t believe that the black haired and Italian Angela De Marco from this movie would be the same blue princess from Ladyhawke. And then , I paid attention in her metamorphosis from a movie to the next one. She was like a mix of Robert De Niro’s chameleon skills, the beauty of a Greek goddess, Meryl Streep’s acting talent, Greta Garbo’s Personality and Grace Kelly’s screen presence. All of this cocktail was Michelle Pfeiffer. It was something unusual in a so young and shy actress in real life like her, join all those qualities and catch the public movie after movie.

That golden and blue rose was from California, the California of the oranges. More concretely from Midway City, in the Californian Orange County. With a humble origin, this ex- check-out girl and ex- miss of provinces was bounded to be one of the best actresses of the 80’s and 90’s and an icon in the Hollywood of these days. If she went unnoticed in some telefilms of less importancy, tv series with a poor quality and some first movies not very relevant, in Ladyhawke she started to captivated me, in The Witches Of Eastwick she started to have relevancy for me, and in Married To The Mob I fell in love with her. In each new movie she give us a bit of her mysterious, sweet and gorgeous presence: Tequila Sunrise, Dangerous Liaisons, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Russia House, Frankie & Johnny, Love Field, Batman Returns, The Age Of innocence, Wolf, etc, etc. In each new movie her talent was becoming bigger and bigger, and at the same time, my love and admiration for her. But not her beauty, her beauty has been always intact. Her mysterious beauty, cold and warm at the same time, hot and ethereal at the same time. The beauty of this porcelain goddess, this cat with nine shining lives, this hawk woman with wolf soul and heaven eyes, this golden and blue rose with crimson lips and penetrating eyes, this dreaming girl with long legs, drawed mouth and silver cheekbones.

If the cinema has got some time a golden and blue dream, it was Michelle Pfeiffer, and I couldn’t be more agree, because this is my dream too.

Written and Translated by Bakerboy for Michelle Pfeiffer, The Face

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