Celebrity: Pia Zadora

Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on 4 may 1954, as Pia Schipani,Pia's first film work was in 1964 in Santa Claus Conquers The Martians,17 years later, Zadora was awarded a Golden Globe award (as Best New Star of the Year) for her work in a film called Butterfly.Pia also won the Sour Apple award from the Hollywood Womens' Press Club as the "celebrity who most believes in his or her publicity." In the same year, Tom Selleck and Joan Collins win the Club's Golden Apples as stars of the year.Between 1985 and 1994 she appeared as herself in Feel the Motion, Troop Beverly Hills, and Naked Gun 33 1/3. She also had a terrific bit part as a beatnik chick in John Waters' Hairspray, and appeared as Little Miss Muffet in Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme. Most of her career at that point was focussed towards her singing. It is generally agreed that Pia is better at singing than she is at acting.On New Year's Day in 1985, Zadora gives birth to a 7 pound, 10 ounce baby girl in Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. She names it Kady, in honor of the young woman Pia played in Butterfly