Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jennifer Beals went from wide-eyed acting newcomer to movie star and 1980s fashion icon in "Flashdance" 40 years ago. Audiences ...

'Flashdance' fans love Jennifer Beals' dance under pouring water, but director Adrian Lyne explains why that scene almost couldn't be in the movie. On a new Paramount Presents Blu-ray of Flashdance, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While some may say the narrative of Flashdance is a bit silly, the power of its soundtrack, which topped the Billboard charts in ...

Video may have killed the radio star when MTV arrived, but it breathed new life into both the film and music businesses. Case in point: Flashdance, released 35 years ago this weekend (April 15), the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The film helped bring breaking into the mainstream. Over the years, it also became famous for the subs and doubles of its star, Jennifer Beals. By ...

Just like 18-year-old Alex Owens — who worked both a steel mill and a stripper pole in Pittsburgh, Penn. before finally getting the chance to live out all her ballerina dreams — “Flashdance” was the ...

MTV first went on the air in August of 1981. A year later, the channel had already started to make a huge impact on the pop charts. A year after that, the MTV influence had spread to cinema. That's ...

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Jennifer Beals went from wide-eyed acting newcomer to movie star and 1980s fashion icon in "Flashdance" 40 years ago. Audiences were swept up in Beals' performance as Pittsburgh steel mill welder Alex ...