No one of the young performers, according to Penn, “had any clue it would take on a life of its own,” when he first stated that the young players were unaware of how well-known and famous the movie would become.
Due to the cultural and historical significance of Fast Times, it has even been conserved in the US National Film Registry.
Phoebe Cates made an appearance in the 1983 comedy Private School, contributing her vocal abilities to the songs Just One Touch and How Do I Let You Know on the soundtrack.
In the iconic 1984 comedy-horror film Gremlins and its 1990 sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Phoebe Cates also played Kate Beringer.
Cates played Patty Winston in Date with an Angel, a fantasy rom-com that received negative reviews, in 1987.
Despite coming from a New York family of Broadway producers, Cates didn’t start acting in plays until the middle of the 1980s. She performed in the off-Broadway musicals Rich Relations and The Nest of the Wood Grouse during this decade, and The Tenth Man marked her Broadway debut.
