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  • Nicolas Cage had a crush on co-star Deborah Foreman. He later admitted in an interview, “I just adored Deborah, so there was very little acting on my part.” Cage would write her poetry on set, and one poem was titled “American Girl,” which Foreman still has to this day.
  • The club scenes where Randy takes Julie were filmed in a Sunset Strip club originally named Filthy McNasty’s in the 1960s and ’70s. In the ’80s, it was called ‘The Central,’ which Johnny Depp later bought and is now known as The Viper Room, where River Phoenix infamously died on Halloween, 1993.
  • This is the first movie in which Nicolas Coppola is billed as Nicolas Cage.
  • The iconic poster image, still used on DVD and Blu-Ray artwork, shows Randy (Nicolas Cage) and Julie, but Julie is not Deborah Foreman; it's actress Tina Theberge, who played Randy’s nightclub lover before Foreman was cast.
  • In the “making of” documentary on the 20th-anniversary DVD, Elizabeth Daily admitted she had no idea how to talk like a Valley Girl. To cover it up, she decided her character, Loryn, would be from nearby Malibu instead of the Valley.
  • Nicolas Cage (Randy) and Deborah Foreman (Julie) struggled to perform the breakup scene at Julie’s front door because it was shot late in the process, when they were still dating. It took several takes and some counseling by Martha Coolidge. She told Deborah Foreman to think of another guy she had broken up with.
  • One of Kevin Smith’s favorite movies of all time. In fact, when Kevin’s wife, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, went into labor, Valley Girl (1983) was taken with them to the hospital to watch while going through labor.
  • Several of the Valley Girls from this movie make cameo appearances in the 2020 remake. They are: Deborah Foreman (Julie in the original) plays the “Shopgirl” who comments on the pink prom dress; Elizabeth Daily (Loryn in the original) plays Mickey’s mom; and Heidi Holicker (Stacey in the original) plays Mrs. H. (the woman at the pep rally who comments, “Check out that bod”).
  • Valley Girl (1983) was included among the American Film Institute’s 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 America’s Greatest Music in the Movies for the song “I’ll Stop the World and Melt with You.”