- Name: Susan Seidelman
- Date of Birth: December 11, 1952
- Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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In an arid comedy landscape, the films of Susan Seidelman seem like a teeming oasis. Her relentlessly contemporary features are knowing satires that examine contemporary issues of fame, self-fulfillme...( read more)
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Susan Seidelman mini-bio: In an arid comedy landscape, the films of Susan Seidelman seem like a teeming oasis. Her relentlessly contemporary features are knowing satires that examine contemporary issues of fame, self-fulfillment and relations between the sexes.
Seidelman grew up in a middle-class Philadelphia suburb and studied graphic design at Drexel University and film at New York University. Her satiric flair earned student film awards for her shorts, "And You Act Like One Too," "Deficit" and "Yours Truly, Andrea G. Stern." On the strength of these productions she managed to raise $80,000 to make her first feature, "Smithereens" (1982), the story of a selfish hustler (Susan Berman) with ambitions to become the manager of a punk rock band. The success of "Smithereens" in America and Europe brought her the attention of the major studios and the chance to direct "Desperately Seeking Susan" (1985), a hit comedy of an identity mix-up between a New Jersey housewife (Rosanna Arquette) and a downtown New York rocker (Madonna).
Seidelman's next three films gathered some critical support but were less successful at the box-office. "Making Mr. Right" (1987) focused on a savvy public relations expert and her attempts to promote an android astronaut (John Malkovich). "Cookie" (1989) was the comic story of a mob hood (Peter Falk) and his wacky daughter (Emily Lloyd). With "She-Devil" (1989), Seidelman explored the vengeance a dumpy housewife (Roseanne Barr) wreaks on her romantic rival (Meryl Streep), but the film, despite its admirably feminist intentions, was less of a critical--or popular--success than some of Seidelman's earlier efforts.
