I was recently thinking about these musicians-turned-actresses while I was at work last week. I can’t remember the exact context of the conversation, but I asked a coworker of mine if he had ever seen the movie Mask (not to be confused with The Mask with Jim Carrey), which he hadn’t. Thinking about Cher’s performance in that movie made me think of Courtney Love in The People vs. Larry Flint. Both characters were played fantastically, but both ladies certainly had plenty of musical notoriety before those roles.
Song: “I Got You Babe”
Artist: Sonny & Cher
Songwriter(s): Sonny Bono
Album(s): I Got You Babe (Single) / Look At Us (Full-length)
Release Year(s): 1965
Song: “Violet”
Artist: Hole
Songwriter(s): Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson, Kristen Pfaff, Patty Schemel
Album(s): Live Through This
Release Year(s): 1994
I Wish You Would Hear Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6jFrq03xPtVVOexYHZF1OW?si=bc9df95d2d854d