![]() ![]() By the summer of 1986, she was memorialized on the cover of Time as America's princess and "the exemplary California teen."Īfter Hughes suddenly passed away a year ago this month at age 58, Ringwald wrote about him on the New York Times op-ed page (and isn't it just like Molly Ringwald to grow up and write a Times op-ed?): "John saw something in me that I didn't even see in myself. He put her in that picture and two others, Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, making her a star. ![]() Writer-director John Hughes certainly believed in Ringwald. Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink, playing Andie Walsh, the redhead from the wrong side of the tracks, in love with a "richie." "If somebody doesn't believe in me," she tells him, "I can't believe in them." If you're part of the MTV Generation and you went to movies in the 1980s, she's practically a touchstone.
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