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The surprisingly shy youngster was the daughter of a struggling actress mother, and a father that left Cher and her mother when she was three years old. Poor, and looking to pursue an acting career, Cher headed for LA at age 16, leaving behind her family and her chances of obtaining a high school diploma.
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Vulnerable on screen in thoughtful, grown-up movies; tough on the concert stage and in the news with her outspoken candor, Cher was now lording over completely separate careers as no one in Hollywood ever had. The ultimate validation came in April 1988: a best actress Oscar for Moonstruck. At 41 - after twenty five years in show biz - Cher was at last on top, on her own terms.
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With album sales and hit singles again at a standstill, Cher decided to expand her career into serious film acting. Her earliest entertainment ambitions had always lain in film, as opposed to music. However, she soon found herself in an uphill battle trying to land credible roles for a woman now in her mid-30s with little acting experience. At the time, she was quoted as saying that she didn’t really care if she ever made another record.
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In May 1999, Cher added the integrity-restoring Franco Zeffirelli movie Tea With Mussolini to her filmography, starring with acting greats Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, and Joan Plowright. At the same time she was ... launching a global concert tour, once again in control of completely separate careers in teen pop and serious films.
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Cher\'s solo career at Imperial, which had created some political problems for the couple at Atlantic, ended with the lapsing of her contract in 1967, and she moved to Atlantic. Ironically, it was this move that contributed the unhappy reversal of the couple\'s fortunes at the end of the decade.
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