Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jennifer Beals went from wide-eyed acting newcomer to movie star and 1980s fashion icon in "Flashdance" 40 years ago. Audiences ...

Just like 18-year-old Alex Owens — who worked both a steel mill and a stripper pole in Pittsburgh, Penn. before finally getting the chance to live out all her ballerina dreams — “Flashdance” was the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The film helped bring breaking into the mainstream. Over the years, it also became famous for the subs and doubles of its star, Jennifer Beals. By ...

‘Flashdance’ was released 30 years ago this week — TIME looks back at the movie’s impact on pop-culture <br>Legend has it that, the night before her audition ...

BOTTOM LINE An entertaining flashback to the music and dance of the 1980s. Sometimes you just have to wait for it. The best moments of "Flashdance: The Musical," now at the Patchogue Theatre in a ...

Jennifer Beals went from wide-eyed acting newcomer to movie star and 1980s fashion icon in "Flashdance" 40 years ago. Audiences were swept up in Beals' performance as Pittsburgh steel mill welder Alex ...