Tom Cruise Made His Debut In An Awful Brooke Shields Box Office Hit

Tom Cruise was a wholly unknown quantity when he went supernova in Paul Brickman‘s sex comedy classic “Risky Business.” The 21-year-old had made a mild impression as a gung-ho military school cadet in Harold Becker‘s underrated “Taps,” but that film was primarily a showcase for rising stars Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn. “Risky Business” belonged to Cruise, and that iconic scene where he lip-syncs to Bob Seger‘s “Old Time Rock and Roll” changed his life, and Hollywood in general, forever.

If you’re curious as to where it all started for Cruise, you can hit up YouTube to see him do his damndest with a clumsily scripted monologue…