During the 1980s, Andrew McCarthy became one of the most recognizable young faces in American cinema. With dark hair, an understated smile, and a reserved screen presence, he stood apart from some of the louder personalities associated with young Hollywood. Movies such as St. Elmo’s Fire, Pretty in Pink, Mannequin, and Weekend at Bernie’s helped make him particularly familiar to teenage audiences. For many viewers who grew up during that period, his films eventually became inseparable from memories of adolescence itself.
Yet McCarthy has repeatedly explained that becoming famous did
