Desperately Seeking Susan
A fixture of the Manhattan downtown club scene of the 1980s, Magnuson gained attention with her role as a snarky cigarette girl in director Susan Seidelman's 1985 independent film hit "Desperately Seeking Susan", which also helped launch the acting career of singer Madonna. Magnuson went on to star in Seidelman's "Making Mr. Right" (1987), a poorly received science-fiction romance about an android played by John Malkovich.