She had done some acting and modeling before, but "Blue Velvet" shot her to stardom. In the film, she plays nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens, who is mentally and physically abused by Dennis Hopper ...

Last night at the 2025 Oscars, Isabella Rossellini channeled her iconic Blue Velvet character, Dorothy Vallens, in tribute to the late David Lynch, who directed the iconic film. “I decided to ...

I don’t know how “Blue Velvet” is supposed to make me feel. It’s so erotic and charged that it feels almost like Lynch is abusing the actors. Isabella Rossellini (“Death Becomes Her”) plays Dorothy, a ...

Rossellini stars in “Blue Velvet” as the tormented nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens, who is held emotionally and physically captive by the sociopath gangster Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper).

Lynch-lovers have long known that the filmmaker has a thing for “Oz” and its alternative realities: In “Blue Velvet,” a tragic woman named Dorothy wears red shoes; in Lynch’s “Wild at ...

The recent passing of director David Lynch has caused many to look back on his films, myself included. Watching “Blue Velvet” (1986), one of Lynch’s most acclaimed films, the first thing I noticed was ...