The expression "my girlfriend", which Melanie Griffith wrote a few weeks ago on her Instagram to refer to Jamie Lee Curtis, raised a certain stir about a possible coming out of the closet of these two veteran actresses.
The first meaning in the dictionary of the word girlfriend is effective "girlfriend" and the second is "friend of a woman". Therefore, what there is between the ex-wife of Antonio Banderas and the recent Oscar winner for best supporting actress is not a sentimental relationship, but a great friendship that began 40 years ago.
It was on March 3 when Griffith and Curtis published on their respective Instagram the photo of both having breakfast on the terrace of the Beverly Hills Hotel. “How wonderful is my friend (girlfriend) Jamie Lee Curtis? Melanie Griffith began by saying. She really is Everything everywhere at the same time. I love our meals together, our conversations that run the gamut of life and love and evoke laughter, tears, and precious memories. For you Jamie! I love you to the moon and back".
The ex-wife of Antonio Banderas and the recent Oscar winner as a supporting actress worked together in 1981 in the film 'Rookie Recruits'
Jamie Lee Curtis, for her part, accompanied the image with the following text: “My old best friend and I, then, and now Melanie Griffith, celebrating my season of success, our childhood with pancakes, hashbrowns, English muffins, and beautiful personalized cappuccinos together, our long friendship as daughters of Hitchcock's blondes, our shared triumphs and tragedies in life. A beautiful California morning.
Indeed Jamie Lee Curtis (1958) and Melanie Griffith (1957) are the daughters of two of the most iconic blonde actresses in Alfred Hitchcock's filmography. Janet Leigh (mother of Jamie Lee Curtis) is the protagonist of one of the most traumatic scenes in the history of cinema: the shower in Psycho (1960). While Tippi Hedren (Melanie Griffith's mother) was the star of the shocking The Birds (which yesterday marked the 60th anniversary of its premiere in New York) and Marnie the Thief.
Melanie and Jamie are not only united by Hitchcock but also by having grown up in Hollywood. The father of the first was Peter Griffith, a young star who had made it big on Broadway as a child. He was 18 years old when he married then-model Tippi Hedren, who was 4 years his senior. In 1960 they divorced and Melanie, the only daughter of the marriage, was only 3 years old.
Jamie Lee Curtis is the daughter of Janet Leigh and her third husband, fellow actor Tony Curtis. They were married in 1951 and divorced in 1963. They had two daughters: Kelly (1956), also an actress, and Jamie.
Melanie has starred in hit films like Women's Arms (her only Oscar nomination), Something Wild, and Bonfire of the Vanities. But her film debut was with The Night Moves in 1975. Jamie debuted in 1978 in the horror film Halloween. It was in 1981 when the two young actresses coincided in a movie. The Forgettable Rookie Recruits. It was on that tape that both actresses strengthened ties until now. Griffith, divorced from Don Johnson, also met Steven Bauer, her second husband and father of her first child, Alexander, on this tape. She then remarried Don Johnson and had fellow actress Dakota. Her fourth husband was Antonio Banderas, fatherthe of her daughter Stella, from whom she is also divorced.
In contrast, Jamie Lee Curtis has only been married once, to Christopher Guest, in 1984. He is Baron Haden-Guest and therefore she holds the title of lady. They are the parents of two adopted daughters, Annie and Ruby, who are transgender. In addition to her scream on Halloween, the actress has hits like A Fish Called Wanda or Risky Lies in her filmography.
Precisely accompanied by her partner in this film, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis immortalized her footprints in front of the Chinese Theater last year. And Melanie was in charge of directing a few words to him: “Her parents of hers were some of the biggest stars of their time, and yet Jamie has managed to outshine them. For two girls like us who grew up in the glitz and shine of old Hollywood, having our hands and feet immortalized in concrete at the legendary Chinese Theater is very, very important."
Both actresses have also suffered from dark episodes, such as their addictions to alcohol, cocaine, and painkillers, which they claim to be a thing of the past.
But in addition to meals, podcasts, and tributes, the two actresses have also shared a husband, because Don Johnson, who has been married twice to Melanie Griffith, was the husband of Jamie Lee Curtis in the acclaimed Daggers in the Back.
