The Making of Supergirl - Casting Supergirl.

[voyager202000]

Helen Slater bought a innocence and charm that was very hard to deny! They chose the right lady for the "maiden of steel"! She is still just as charming today as she was when first cast for "Supergirl". She still has that girl next door appeal that is rare as a platinum mine!

[msmithstud]

she was even hotter in LEGEND OF BILLY JEAN

[carnivalofsouls2047]

Helen Slater was perfectly cast as Supergirl. Can you imagine if they had made Britney Spears into Supergirl? Ugh.

[muratshawn]

she looked so beautiful in the superman outfit,with the nice blond girl

[benji19811993]

its on the supergirl limited edition numbered dvd issued by anchor bay entertainment in 2000....not on any other supergirl dvd...

[DaveM599]

I think the casting of Slater was almost as inspired as the casting of Reeve: she really does look the part.

[singularku]

but she has much better looking face than anne frank!

[singularku]

she remind me of anne frank,blonde anne frank

[WastedPo]

Where is this documentary available? Is it on any edition of the Supergirl DVD?

[videozfann]

Might have been cheesy but liked the movie.

[benji19811993]

sylph-like, stunningly beautiful Helen was the perfect supergirl...i don't care what the critics say about the movie, it was a movie i enjoyed as a teen then and continue to enjoy as an adult now....and Helen has an angel-like voice to boot!! a very classy, intelligent and respectable lady, quite unlike the bimbos of today's Hollywood......

[cjpatz]

helen can never look like a jackass to me.

[billbot60]

I remember when the movie first came out, and Christopher Reeve was on the Tonight Show, and was asked if he had seen the movie and he said yes and he said Helen (as Supergirl) flies better than me ;)

[hardsixteenyeah]

@billbot60 Really? I wish I could find that interview.

[mrtelevision]

You can hear Helen's distinctive accent(Eastern Long Island)

[queenmagic1982]

helen slater is a very beautiful girl

[cecinid]

Just curious...why is the video 'screen' taller than it is wide? Very odd!

[ck7928]

Sexy, sweet, classy, ridiculously beautiful, Helen Slater stands on her own. Who cares if the script sucks, just look at her!

[johnnyaxe88]

It's funny how some people view this movie as a flop. It's one of my all-time favorite films! You can't watch expecting an Oscar quality movie. Hell yeah, it's cheesy, but it's great cheese! The humour is a gas, and you can't discard Helen Slater. She's awesome!

[crpsaiyan]

Most people don't know this, but Helen Slater was originally born a brunette. She has shown her real hair once when she was filming a L'Oreal commercial. Just thought you guys might want to know. :)

[farcher3]

Also, her real name is Helen Schlicter, not Slater. I think "Slater" is a stage name. She used to date Christian Slater and they were into each other but they broke up in the 80s. I knew she used to be a brunette but she looks like she was born blonde and looks better blonde. To bad C Reeve screwed the movie up by not making a cameo like they planned. I liked Reeve but he could have boosted the movie with a cameo in this film.

[crpsaiyan]

*laughs* I think you mean "Schlacter", because that's her legal name. :)

As for C. Reeve being in the movie. I'm not too sure, considering that Superman III wasn't all that good, and Superman IV was a disaster. Who knows? *shrugs*

[yellowcougar18]

@farcher3 The film had more problems than Chris Reeve not being in the film. They had star perfomers like Peter O'Toole, and Faye Dunawaye, and yet they completely messed up the who heritage of the characters, including her origin, powers and any sense of drama.

The script needed to be tightened up before it was ever filmed, and the villains needed to be far stronger. There was no drama.. A real pity.

[hardsixteenyeah]

@farcher3 Maybe he knew about the movie and he (or his manager) didn't like the script at all. If Chris only said that, he was quite cautious.

[farcher3]

@hardsixteenyeah Maybe. But then again the plots for Superman 3 & 4 were not that great. The best part of S3 that was good was Sups figting Clark Kent. the Salkands who were running the Superman series were cruel people and punished G Hackman and M Kidder for speaking against them. Maybe they wanted control over Reeve too and maybe he was afraid of them. I want a make a new 'Supergirl' with Brittany Snow or Blake Lively. New Superman, B Routh could guest star as Superman. What do you think?

[ibanezexplorer]

I thought she was a knockout too when she was Supergirl, but I didn't know it was a flop. I saw a video of her in 2007 and she is still hot - Go Helen!

[123vandrax]

used to wish i cud sleep with her when i was 10

[natureboyinyourface]

so beautiful.

[tohotxox]

this movie bombed. but shes hot!!!!

[poobustank]

these people are so excited about the movie. i sure hope they didnt go broke when it flopped

[DDxHellRaiser]

this movie was made when I was born

[fboothjr]

LOL that's hilarious

[gandy74]

They would never cast someone like Helen Slater today. They would look for some bobble-headed bleached blonde bogus- boobed bimbo with a brittle, bitchy attitude.

Kind-hearted, quietly intelligent girls with sweet faces apparently aren't selling these days.

[missymonroe72]

I agree in everything with you. The face of Helen at 19 was perfect !!!. Her beaty hurts.

[mrtelevision]

Very sad, but very true

[hardsixteenyeah]

@gandy74 Are you sure? Yes, I think it would be a shame. Now, producters, directors, etc, always prefer a girl like you describe. Unreal women instead of a natural beauty as she (Helen) show us.

[videozfann]

@gandy74 true!

[WastedPo]

@gandy74, completely agree. What's weird is I think the younger people of today somehow think that plastic-looking, Mary Kate and Ashley types are the only way a woman/girl can look beautiful. (I even read a comment from someone that basically said that women of past decades weren't as pretty as the girls of today.) They don't seem to get that ladies can be absolute knockouts, even moreso, when they're not covered in 3-inchs layers of spackle and haven't had more surgeries than the cat-lady.

[sikira20]

she is a very hot lady...go helen

[cjpatz]

she is a knockout.. hot...

[britnessa]

go helen slater.