This 1969 Film Kept Cher Out Of The Movie Business For Over A Decade
Cher today is known as not only a singer but a successful actress as well, with a string of triumphs in the ’80s that included Silkwood, Mask, and Moonstruck. 1969, a desperate Sonny and Cher made a movie called Chastity — written and produced by Sonny, starring Cher — that was spectacularly terrible. Sonny and Cher scraped together $500,000 of their own money to make Chastity, a road movie about a young woman on a journey of self-discovery, or something. The movie was a critical and commercial failure, and Cher didn’t appear on the big screen for another 13 years.