Michelle Pfeiffer is Back and Better Than Ever! (PARTE UNE)

Golden Globe winning actress Michelle Pfeiffer has made her first feature appearance in 4 years (since 2013's "Where Is Kyra?" and "The Family") in Kenneth Branagh's lavish adaption of Agatha Christie's infamous murder-mystery, "Murder On the Orient Express."
The actress plays Caroline Hubbard, a widowed American with a dark secret and tragic past. She also performs the song, "Never Forget" on the film's soundtrack. The song is featured in the closing credits.
Pfeiffer began her 35 year career in 1978, with several minor roles on television in shows such as "Delta House," also appearing in minor roles in such films as "Falling In Love Again," and "The Hollywood Knights," in 1980, as well as "Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen," in 1981. While taking lessons at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, she appeared in a commercial for Lux Soap. "I needed to learn how to act... in the meantime, I was playing bimbos and cashing in on my looks," Pfeiffer has since said of her early career.
After making small appearances in three more television movies -- "Callie and Son," "The Children Nobody Wanted," and, "Splendor in the Grass" -- 1981, Pfeiffer made her major film debut in 1982 when she was cast as Stephanie Zinone in "Grease 2." Despite the failure of the film and her single, "Cool Rider," Pfeiffer herself was praised. The New York Times review of the movie includuded this, "although she is a relative screen newcomer, Miss Pfeiffer manages to look much more insouciant and comfortable than anyone else in the cast". But the complimentary review, her association with the movie kept her out of work for awhile, and almost forced her to miss her big break.
Brian De Palma refused to audition Pfeiffer for his movie, "Scarface" because of "Grease 2," but eventually relented; she was awarded the role of Elvira Hancock. The film is now considered a cult classic. Once again, the reviews for Pfeiffer herself were complimentary. Time Magazine writer Richard Corliss felt that, "most of the large cast is fine: Michelle Pfeiffer is better ..." For an article for Vanity Fair called "Blonde Ambition", Dominick Dunne wrote, "[s]he is on the verge of stardom. In the parlance of the industry, she is hot".
During the 1980s, the actress worked steadily in films such as "Ladyhawke," "The Witches of Eastwick" "Sweet Liberty," "Amazon Women On the Moon," "Into the Night, and, "Married to the Mob" -- which earned Pfeiffer her first Golden Globe Award nomination, starting a six year streak for her. She also appeared in "Tequila Sunrise" and "Dangerous Liasons" in the late 80s, the latter of which garnered such accolades for Pfeiffer as the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress and 
​an Academy Award nomination for the same category. The criticial acclaim for Pfeiffer in the role of Madame Marie de Tourvel was stellar as well. Hal Hinson of The Washington Post" wrote that Pfeiffer's role was "the least obvious and the most difficult. Nothing is harder to play than virtue, and Pfeiffer is smart enough not to try. Instead, she embodies it. Her porcelain-skinned beauty, in this regard, is a great asset, and the way it's used makes it seem an aspect of her spirituality".
The star finished out the 80s with a leading role in "The Fabulous Baker Boys," which featured her singing atop a piano. The role won Pfeiffer her first Golden Globe for Best Actress.