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May 26, 2021 · Yes, Pamela Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen's little sis, was in the 1982 coming-of-age teen classic “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.” Pamela, then 19, played a Ridgemont High cheerleader with...
Springsteen took up acting, and was cast in her first role as a young cheerleader in the 1982 comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Two years later, in 1984, she appeared as a cheerleader in the film Reckless .
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Born in New Jersey in 1962, Pamela Colleen Springsteen is one of two sisters to rock legend Bruce Springsteen. She began acting at a young age, and found her film debut in Fast Times, playing the cheerleader Dina.
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- Fast Times at Ridgemont High began as a non-fiction book. While a freelance writer for Rolling Stone, screenwriter Cameron Crowe spent a year secretly embedded at Clairemont High School in San Diego, California under an assumed name (and in cooperation with the school’s administration) to gather stories for a non-fiction book with the same title.
- The inspiration for Mark “The Rat” Ratner would go on to become a real-life computer guru. Crowe based the geeky Rat on then-Clairemont High School student Andy Rathbone.
- Fast Times is Amy Heckerling’s directorial debut. Heckerling, who would go on to direct Look Who’s Talking and Clueless, was hired to direct Fast Times at Ridgemont High based on her AFI thesis film.
- Jennifer Jason Leigh also did a bit of undercover work to prepare. Twenty-year-old Leigh took a job at the actual Perry’s Pizza in the Sherman Oaks Galleria mall, where parts of the movie were shot, to get into character as Stacy Hamilton.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American coming-of-age comedy film directed by Amy Heckerling (in her feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Cameron Crowe, based on his 1981 book Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A True Story, and starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Brian Backer, Robert Romanus ...
During the early 80s, she decided to take up acting like her brother's first wife, Julianne Phillips, did during the mid-80s and she had a small role in her first film playing a young cheerleader named "Dina Phillips" in the cult teen comedy classic Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), and got some brief exposure, as it launched many other ...
