Ironweed
In this Great Depression-era film, Streep, who played Helen Archer, a washed-up radio singer, sang “She’s Me Pal” on stage in a half-imagined scenario inside a bar. At the Kennedy Center Honors in 2011, Streep’s Devil Wears Prada co-star Anne Hathaway sang a performance of the song “She’s Me Pal” in her honor.
Ironweed
Postcards from the Edge
This picture, which featured one of Meryl’s greatest ever on-screen performances, has already been mentioned briefly. She portrayed the daughter of a Hollywood celebrity who overdoses and enters treatment in the film Postcards from the Edge, Streep sang the original song “I’m Checking Out” as well as Ray Charles’ “You Don’t Know Me” with the band Blue Rodeo. She was supposed to perform “I’m Checking Out” at the Oscars, but she couldn’t since she was pregnant. Reba McEntire, on the other hand, took her position on the Academy Awards stage.
Postcards From The Edge
