Movie Success
At this point, Cher saw a decrease in album sales so she decided to develop her acting career. Therefore she auditioned for and then was signed by the director Robert Altman for the Broadway stage productions of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Moreover Cher credits Altman for having launched her acting career, “Without Bob [Robert Altman] I would have never had a film career. Everyone told him not to cast me … I am convinced that Bob was the only one who was brave enough to do it.
Movie Success
Coming Out
When Chastity turned 18, she came out as a lesbian. To explain her decision to do so, she said, “As a child, I always felt there was something different about me. I’d look at other girls my age and feel perplexed by their obvious interest in the latest fashion, which boy in class was the cutest, and who looked the most like cover girl Christie Brinkley. When I was 13, I finally found a name for exactly how I was different. I realized I was gay.”
Coming Out
