{"id":2329582,"date":"2026-03-15T18:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2329582"},"modified":"2026-03-15T18:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:01:10","slug":"tom-cruise-made-his-debut-in-an-awful-brooke-shields-box-office-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tom-cruise-made-his-debut-in-an-awful-brooke-shields-box-office-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise Made His Debut In An Awful Brooke Shields Box Office Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2329583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2329582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tom-Cruise-Made-His-Debut-In-An-Awful-Brooke-Shields.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2329584,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329582\/revisions\/2329584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2329583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}