Pia Zadora - Fact Sheet

Profession: Actress / Musician

Her first film appearance was in 1964's infamous Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, as Girmar, a young Martian girl. She won a Golden Globe as 1982's "Most Promising New Star," but also won "Worst New Star" in the 1982 Golden Raspberry Awards. She starred in the 1983 film The Lonely Lady. She won the now defunct "Best New Star of the Year" Golden Globe for the film Butterfly despite the fact that she actually made her acting debut eighteen years earlier. There were rumors that her husband, Israeli multimillionaire Meshulam Riklis (owner of McCrory's), who financed the movie, bribed the critics. Zadora garnered both attention and ridicule that year at the ironically named Cannes Film Festival, by posing for the press cavorting in a public fountain and wearing a Tanga Maillot swimsuit. This resulted in many photos of her and her shapely posterior appearing in various publications. In contrast, Newsweek published what they sarcastically referred to as a "rare head-on" photo of the actress. 

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Pia Zadora Photo Galleries	# of Pictures
Candid	4
Glamour + Candid + Screen Capture	60
Glamour + Sexy + Screen Capture	80