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Pia Zadora (born May 4, 1954) is an American actress and singer.
Born
Pia Schipani in Hoboken, New Jersey she took her mother's maiden name as her stage name. Her first appearance was in 1964's infamous Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, as Girmar, the Girl Martian. She won a Golden Globe Award as 1982's "Most Promising New Star", but also won "Worst New Star" in the 1982 Golden Raspberry Awards.
Her film career has been a series of lows, with no hit films, and with further Golden Raspberries to her credit, including the "Worst New Star of the Decade" award in the 1989 Golden Raspberry Awards.
She has attained some success as a singer, and has had several hit singles throughout the world. In 1982 she received a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Her cover version of the Shirley Ellis hit, "The Clapping Song", reached the US Top 40 in 1983, and she had a minor hit with a duet with Jermaine Jackson titled "When The Rain Begins To Fall" in 1984. Release of 'Pia & Phil', album of standards with The London Philharmonic 1987
Zadora gained notoriety when she and her husband (Meshulam Riklis, the owner of McCrory's among other businesses) bought and demolished the Hollywood landmark mansion Pickfair in 1988. The former home of silent screen stars Douglas Fairbanks and
Mary Pickford, the mansion was one of Hollywood's most famous privately owned properties. Its destruction gained Zadora intense criticism.
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