{"id":46433,"date":"2016-04-11T11:03:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T09:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/46433\/on-this-day-in-history-cher-wins-best-actress-oscar\/"},"modified":"2016-04-11T11:03:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T09:03:35","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-cher-wins-best-actress-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2016\/04\/11\/on-this-day-in-history-cher-wins-best-actress-oscar\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in history: Cher wins Best Actress Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The singer, born Cherilyn Sarkasian, on May 20, 1946, first became famous as the female half of the 1960s singing duo Sonny and Cher. The married couple scored their first hit, <em>I Got You Babe<\/em> in 1965; their television series,\u00a0<em>The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour\u00a0<\/em>ran from 1971 to 1974. The couple split up after having one child, Chastity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/04\/Corbis-0000236504-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-102996\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/04\/Corbis-0000236504-002.jpg\" alt=\"1988 Academy Awards\" width=\"317\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By that time, Cher had launched a solo music career, scoring hit singles like <em>Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves<\/em> (1971), <em>Half-Breed<\/em> (1973) and <em>Dark Lady<\/em> (1974). Her short-lived solo TV effort,\u00a0<em>Cher<\/em>, wasn\u2019t a hit with critics but her movie career later soared.<\/p>\n<p>She acted in films such as <em>Silkwood<\/em> alongside Meryl Streep, <em>The Witches of Eastwick<\/em>, <em>Suspects<\/em>, <em>Mermaids<\/em> and her recent film B<em>urlesque<\/em> opposite fellow singer Christina Aguilera.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cher winning Best Actress (Oscar) for Moonstruck\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HP3lB-HTbbc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 11 April 1988, Cher won the Best Actress category for the film Moonstruck at the Academy Awards.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7783,"featured_media":46434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2704,2681],"tags":[4092,3169,4093,21985,3598,4094,3708],"class_list":["post-46433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-cher","tag-history","tag-moonstruck","tag-music","tag-pop","tag-the-oscars","tag-this-day-in-history"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["Cher","history","Moonstruck","music","pop","The Oscars","This Day in History"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}