#Fame was a relatively low budget musical from 1980 directed by Alan Parker and written by Christopher Gore, following a group of students and their teachers and their exploits and adventures at the New York High School of Performing Arts. The film starred Albert Hague as Mr Shorofsky (the music teacher), Jim Farrell (drama), Anna Meara (English) and Debbie Allen as Lydia Grant the main dance teacher and focal point of most of the auditions along with students Doris Finsecker (Maureen Teefy), Ralph Garcie (formally known as Raul Garcia until he tried to disguise his Puerto Rican roots) played by Barry Miller, Coco Hernandez (Irene Cara), Leroy Johnson (Gene Anthony Ray), Bruno Martelli (Lee Curreri) and Montgomery MacNeil (Paul McCrane). Despite the film's success in the US winning an academy award for the best song, the title track sung by Irene Cara as the character Coco Hernandez, it was not well received in the UK, the film only moderately successful and the soundtrack not even able to hit the top 20.
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