Rosanna Arquette and Madonna in 'Desperately Seeking Susan' (1985 ... Mark Blum, who played Roberta’s husband Gary Glass, a.k.a. “The Spa King of New Jersey,” died from COVID complications ...

One such example is the 1985 comedy-drama “Desperately Seeking Susan,” starring Rosanna Arquette as bored housewife Roberta and Madonna as the titular Susan, an enigmatic downtown punk who ...

Directed by Susan Seidelman, Desperately Seeking Susan tells the story of Roberta (Arquette), a bored suburban housewife who draws comfort out of reading the personals section of a NYC tabloid.

Instead, most of the story follows Rosanna Arquette’s Roberta Glass, the woman who is obsessed with Susan. Arquette had smaller roles before Desperately Seeking Susan, but this was her breakout ...

Emma Williams, who dropped out of West End musical The Sound of Music to make way for Connie Fisher, took Madonna's role of Susan. Kelly Price, who recently appeared in the West End production of Guys ...

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In the spring of 1984, when Desperately Seeking Susan was greenlit ... I wish I could have told Rosanna that playing Roberta Glass would bring her international fame and kudos.

She’s so great in “Desperately Seeking Susan” because Susan is more of an idea than a character — the dream of romantic escape that pulls Arquette’s Roberta out of her sleepwalking ...

The film was 1985’s Desperately Seeking ... Madonna plays Susan, a scenester trailed by the mob after stealing a pair of valuable Egyptian earrings. Rosanna Arquette plays Roberta, a bored ...

Roberta, a bored suburban housewife, becomes fascinated with Susan, whom she has read about in the personal columns of a newspaper, until she ends up in trouble after being mistaken for Susan herself.