Simply Streep is your premiere online resource on Meryl Streep's work on film, television and in the theatre - a career that has won her acclaim to be one of the world's greatest living actresses. Created in 1999, Simply Streep has built an extensive collection over the past 25 years to discover Miss Streep's body of work through thousands of photographs, articles and video clips. Enjoy your stay and check back soon.
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Our second Scan Sunday contains a wild ride throughout the 1980s with reviews and articles on “Silkwood”, “Falling in Love”, “Plenty”, “Out of Africa”, “Heartburn”, “Ironweed” and “A Cry in the Dark”. Among the highlights of this update is a wonderful cover from the French Le Figaro (1983) and a lenghty article and pictorial on “Out of Africa” from the French Premiere Magazine. As always, many thanks to Alvaro for the contributions. Enjoy reading and have a wonderful Sunday.
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1989 – Mademoiselle (USA, June 1989)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1989 – Story (Netherlands, May 1989)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1989 – New Idea (Australia, April 29, 1989)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1988 – Kino (Germany, December 1988)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1988 – Time Magazine (USA, November 14, 1988)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1988 – Mademoiselle (USA, November 1988)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1988 – Premiere (France, September 1988)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1988 – Movie Magazine (Australia, March 1988)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1987 – Time Magazine (USA, December 21, 1987)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1986 – Time Magazine (USA, August 04, 1986)
Over the last couple of weeks, my friend and frequent site contributor Alvaro has shared yet another treasure trove of old articles with interviews and reviews, ranging from 1976 to 2021. As I didn’t want to make just one update and send them out in one big chunk, I rediscovered a nice alternative I used a couple of years ago – the Scan Sunday. From this week on, every Sunday will feature a scan update with a slice from these new scanned articles. This will keep us entertained for a couple of months :-) We start today with scans from 1976 to 1983, covering her early theatre work in New York to reviews for her formative years with “Kramer vs. Kramer”, “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” and econcluding somewhere between “Sophie’s Choice” and “Still of the Night”. For a complete list of updates, have a look at the list below. Enjoy reading.
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1976 – Veronica (Netherlands, January 1983)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1976 – Premiere (France, January 1983)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1976 – Time Magzine (USA, December 13, 1982)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1976 – Rolling Stone (USA, December 09, 1982)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1976 – Time Magazine (USA, November 22, 1982)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1976 – Time Magazine (USA, May 17, 1982)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1976 – Le Figaro (France, February 06, 1982)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1976 – Vanity Fair (USA, January 1982)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1976 – Veronica (Netherlands, November 1981)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1976 – Veronica (Netherlands, October 1981)
Journalist and author Reba Merrill, who will be releasing her book Nearly Famous: Tales from the Hollywood Trenches on July 21, has blessed Meryl Streep fans with a wonderfully rare and downright odd video interview with the actress, which gets all the more fascinating if you know the back story. As Merrill writes in her book and on her website: In 1987, I went on location to upstate New York for the film Ironweed, which would be Oscar-nominated in 1988 against Rain Man. I knew that I would not be allowed to interview or shoot behind the scenes footage of Jack Nicholson. That left me with his co-star, Meryl Streep. I shot footage of Jack working, but no one knew because I had my cameraman turn his light off. Jack joked around with the TV crew and me as long as the camera was not running. Meryl Streep, on the other hand, let us shoot behind the scenes footage of her. The film’s unit publicist arranged Meryl’s interview and when the scheduled time came, we were set up and ready. What a surprise when Meryl arrived with wet hair, glasses, and no make up. No one had told her that this was a video interview, not print. I told her, “This interview will last a long time, and I don’t think you want to look that way on video.” I left the film set with all the interviews except the one with the star of the film. When I came back to Los Angeles, I told the producers I did not have Meryl’s interview. I was sent back to New York to interview Meryl Streep, where I picked up a crew and met her at a hotel on Madison Avenue. When I returned to do the interview, she was comfortable with me. Maybe it was because she saw me often during the three-week period on the film; maybe it was because I had been honest with her and said, “Please don’t do the interview with wet hair and no makeup and glasses.”
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For our next interview, the studio provided Meryl with her personal hair and makeup person at the cost of $1,500. About a third of the way through the interview, she put her hand through her hair and got it all messed up, undoing the work of her expensive stylist. I kept my mouth shut because the interview was going really well. The same stylist, J. Roy Helland, won an Oscar in the Hair and Makeup category for turning Meryl into Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. When he accepted his Oscar, he thanked Meryl for keeping him employed for over 30 years. Meryl gave me a very revealing, hour-long interview about the woman she was, what made her tick, and what was important in her life. “I still get nervous, very nervous, when I have to audition,” she told me, which is probably not something she has to do anymore since she is considered one of the most talented and respected actresses of our time.
Whenever I plan to post “a couple of old pictures” and go through my files to see if there’s something else, I come up with a couple dozen of pictures that have never made it to the archives before. I have no idea where they were all hiding, but I’m glad to share those new additions with you. Updates go back as early as 1980 with appearances at the Academy Awards Luncheon for “Kramer vs. Kramer” and the Obie Awards, a bunch of press conferences throughout the 1980s for “Silkwood” and “A Cry in the Dark” and some lesser-publicised appearances in the late 1990s, including the Telluride and Toronto Film festivals. For a complete list of updates, have a look at the previews below. Enjoy the pictures and have a nice weekend everybody.
Public Appearances – 2000 – 72nd Annual Academy Awards – Arrivals
Public Appearances – 2000 – 6th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards – Arrivals
Public Appearances – 1999 – “Music of the Heart” Premiere
Public Appearances – 1999 – VH1 Concert of the Century
Public Appearances – 1999 – Net Aid Concert
Public Appearances – 1999 – 9th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards
Public Appearances – 1999 – “One True Thing” Press Conference (Paris)
Public Appearances – 1999 – 71st Annual Academy Awards – Arrivals
Public Appearances – 1999 – 5th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
Public Appearances – 1999 – 49th Berlin Film Festival – Berlinale Kamera Reception
Public Appearances – 1999 – 49th Berlin Film Festival – “One True Thing” Press Conference
Public Appearances – 1999 – “Dancing at Lughnasa” Premiere (Rome)
Public Appearances – 1998 – Motion Picture Club Luncheon
Public Appearances – 1998 – Walk of Fame Ceremony
Public Appearances – 1998 – “One True Thing” Premiere (Los Angeles)
I’ve done some more digging into the archives to bring additional pictures from the ’70s and ’80s to the photo gallery. Among the new additions are pictures from the Academy Awards for “The Deer Hunter”, “Kramer vs. Kramer” and “Sophie’s Choice”, promotional appearances for “The French Lieutenantn’s Woman” and “Silkwood” and Honorary Degree visits to Dartmouth in 1981 and to Yale in 1983. To view all last added pictures, have a look at the list below. Enjoy your Sunday!
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1983 – “Silkwood” Press Conference (Los Angeles)
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1983 – Yale Honorary Degree
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1983 – 55th Annual Academy Awards – After-Party
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1983 – 55th Annual Academy Awards – Press Room
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1981 – “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” Photocall
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1981 – Dartmouth Honorary Degree
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1981 – Unknown Event 02
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1980 – 52nd Annual Academy Awards – Press Room
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1980 – 52nd Annual Academy Awards – Arrivals
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1980 – “Kramer vs. Kramer” Photocall (London)
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1980 – Oscar Nominees’ Party at Tavern Green
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1979 – 51st Annual Academy Awards – Show
Happy New Year everybody. I hope you all had a good start into 2021, which will hopefully be much better than 2020. I’ve been sorting my archives during the Holidays to add screencaptures from a variety of television programmes that I have collected in the past months – including some finds that I’ve been looking for for a very long time. Among the highlights are Meryl’s 1983 profile on the Australian 60 Minutes, including great footage from the Paris premiere of “Sophie’s Choice”, better quality screencaptures from “Kiss Me, Petruchio”, a PBS taping of her 1978 performance of “The Taming of the Shrew” in Central Park and “An Evening with Friends of the Environment” from 1990, more screencaptures from her 1989 on the Phil Donahue Show to promote the recently founded Mothers and Others for a Liveable Planet (unfortunately I haven’t been able to source a full video of her appearance yet) and “Coping with Serious Illness”, her very first television appearance as a host. A complete list of screencaptures can be found below. Enjoy the new additions.
Photo Gallery – Television Appearances – When Meryl Met Anna (November 09, 2017)
Photo Gallery – Television Appearances – Radioman (October 12, 2012)
Photo Gallery – Television Appearances – What Should I Tell My Children About Drinking
Photo Gallery – Television Appearances – An Evening with Friends of the Environment (1990)
Photo Gallery – Television Appearances – The Phil Donahue Show (March 17, 1989)
Photo Gallery – Television Appearances – Z Channel On Location: Ironweed (December 01, 1988)
Photo Gallery – Career – A Cry in the Dark – Making Of Screencaptures
Photo Gallery – Television Appearances – Meryl Streep at Work (November 07, 1985)
Photo Gallery – Television Appearances – Seeing Stars (September 14, 1985)
Photo Gallery – Television Appearances – 60 Minutes (Australia, April 11, 1983)
Photo Gallery – Television Appearances – Kiss me Petruchio (1981)
Photo Gallery – Television Appearances – Film 81 with Barry Norman (September 28, 1981)
Photo Gallery – Television Appearances – Coping with Serious Illness (1980)
Photo Gallery – Appearances – 1980 – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards – Screencaptures
This Summer, I have challenged myself to research Meryl Streep’s theatre performances during her time at Vassar and Yale, since information on this topic has always been limited. We have all read about her celebrated debut as “Miss Julie” at Vassar and then countless performances at Yale – but in order to understand her theatrical training, or awakening if you will, I wanted to find all the roles and playwrights that have shaped her acting in her forming years and made her such a sought-after talent during her training years that made her an instant star at the New York stages after her graduation. I’m happy to announce that I have succeeded with a comprehensive list of 46 plays that Meryl Streep participated in between 1969 and 1975, accompanied by cast lists, reviews and pictures. Among the great finds is the fact that “Miss Julie” was indeed a celebrated performance at Vassar, but not her only one. She performed in two plays at Dartmouth College during her exchange program in 1971, and we have even more information from her Summer stock jobs with the Green Mountain Guild and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Also, did you know Meryl participated in a Wendy Wasserstein play in 1984? You’re about to find out on the career pages. Many thanks to Michael for his generous help and contributions. Below is a complete list of pictures that I have found during my research. Enjoy all the new additions.
And while we’re at it, I have updated the editorial photographies as well – not as many as the magazine scans, but still some very nice additions from the very beginning of her career to the very recent. Enoy your Sunday.
Just when I finished adding newfound magazine articles to the archvie a couple of weeks ago, I realised that I forgot to add half of them :-) So, sooner than expected, here comes a second magazine update. Most are coming from Brasilian magazines, including Manchete, with some fantastic full-length articles on her breakthrough with “Holocaust” and her road to stardom with “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” and “Sophie’s Choice”. There are also a couple of scans from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. For a complete list, have a look at the previews below. Many thanks to Alvaro for finding most of these rare articles. Much appreciated!
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, March 09, 1991)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Elle Magazine (Brasil, August 1989)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, September 12, 1987)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, April 19, 1986)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Premium Channels (USA, December 1984)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, March 31, 1984)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, May 01, 1983)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, April 30, 1983)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, March 27, 1982)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – The Daily Mirror (United Kingdom, October 1981)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Macleans (Canada, September 21, 1981)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, April 28, 1980)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Revista de Domingo (Brasil, January 27, 1980)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, January 13, 1980)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, September 22, 1979)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Lancaster TV Week (USA, September 02, 1979)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, December 02, 1978)
If your looking for something to read on your quarantine Sunday, have a look at the 50+ new magazine scans that have been added to the archives! There are some great old finds from the 1980s as well as many more recent interviews on articles from Austria and Switzerland, Brazil and Peru, Poland and the United Kingdom. So, there’s something for everybody. Huge thanks to my friend Alvaro for compiling all these new finds and sending them my way. Much appreciated. Enjoy your Sunday!