Carlin Glynn, a Tony Award-winning actress and singer known for her role as Brenda Baker in the 1984 hit “Sixteen Candles” and the Broadway smash “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ...

On the film’s 40th anniversary, take a look back at Sixteen Candles’ stars, then and now. Molly Ringwald was just 15 years old when she was cast as Sixteen Candles’ protagonist Sam ...

Few filmmakers had as much of an impact on '80s pop culture as John Hughes. Sixteen Candles, his 1984 directorial debut, was the film and cast that started it all, introducing the world to the ...

“Sixteen Candles” originally included a pervy and incestuous line that Molly Ringwald’s onscreen dad, Paul Dooley, had changed. In his memoir, “Movie Dad: Finding Myself and My ...

Two decades later, she took on the role of Molly Ringwald’s Grandma Helen in “Sixteen Candles.” And in 2006, she popped up in an episode of “Grey’s Anatomy.” The actress was also on Br ...

A fictional suburb was imagined into realistic existence when “Sixteen Candles” was filmed with footage from real-life Chicagoland. Although some of the film’s thematic elements don’t hold ...

Gwyneth Paltrow surprised fans of the classic 1980s comedy Sixteen Candles by revealing an unexpected milestone for iconic heartthrob Jake Ryan. Paltrow, 52, is seemingly a huge fan of Sixteen ...

To Anthony Michael Hall — who played "the Geek" in Sixteen Candles — costar Michael Schoeffling was "like a big brother." "Hollywood is like campus," noted the actor. "You kind of run into ...

Actor Carole Cook, known for her work in “Sixteen Candles” and “The Lucy Show,” has died. She was 98. Cook’s manager, Robert Malcom, told The Times that the actor “went peacefully ...

Andrew McCarthy’s "Brats" documentary featured interviews with many key members of the '80s celebrity group known as "The Brat Pack," but there were a handful of noticeable absences. One of ...

Sixteen Candles actress Carole Cook has died. She was 98. Cook, who was known for her roles onscreen and on the Broadway stage, died of heart failure on Wednesday (Jan. 11) in Beverly Hills ...