Editing Jacqueline Bisset (section)

===1980s===
Bisset appeared in some all-star films: ''[[When Time Ran Out]]'' (1980), starring alongside Paul Newman and [[William Holden]], and ''[[Inchon (film)|Inchon]]'' (1981), with [[Ben Gazzara]]. Her fee around this time was $1 million a movie.<ref>JACQUELINE BISSET AS STAR AND PRODUCER
Mann, Roderick. Los Angeles Times 23 April 1981: h7.</ref> Both ''When Time Ran Out'' and ''Inchon'' were big flops.
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More popular was [[George Cukor]]'s ''[[Rich and Famous (1981 film)|Rich and Famous]]'' (1981) with [[Candice Bergen]], where Bisset also served as co-producer.<ref>Jacqueline Bisset on 'Rich and Famous'
McBride, Joseph; McCarthy, Todd. Film Comment; New York Vol. 17, Iss. 5, (Sep/Oct 1981): 45,80.</ref> One of her best-known roles came in the coming-of-age comedy ''[[Class (film)|Class]]'' (1983), as a married woman having an affair with her son's ([[Rob Lowe]]) prep school roommate ([[Andrew McCarthy]]). Bisset received her third Golden Globe nomination for [[John Huston]]'s ''[[Under the Volcano (1984 film)|Under the Volcano]]'' (1984) in the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actress]] category.

In 1984 Bisset made the wartime drama ''[[Forbidden (1984 film)|Forbidden]]'' with [[Jürgen Prochnow]], and earned a [[CableACE Award]] nomination as Best Actress. For television she played the title role in ''[[Anna Karenina (1985 film)|Anna Karenina]]'' (1985), opposite [[Christopher Reeve]], and did an abortion drama, ''[[Choices (1986 film)|Choices]]'' (1986).<ref>TWO PROJECTS FOR JACQUELINE BISSET: [REVIEW]
O'Connor, John J. New York Times 26 March 1985: C.18.</ref> Bisset portrayed [[Joséphine de Beauharnais]] in the miniseries ''[[Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story]]'' (1987) with [[Armand Assante]]. She also had the lead in some comedies: ''[[High Season (film)|High Season]]'' (1987) and ''[[Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills]]'' (1989), taking over for [[Faye Dunaway]] due to scheduling conflicts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-25-ca-3789-story.html|title=Paul Bartel Sticks It to the Idle Rich : Location Fun with the Maverick Director of 'Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills'|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=25 September 1988|access-date=1 August 2021|archive-date=1 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801015809/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-25-ca-3789-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Between those she made ''La maison de jade'' (1988) in France with [[Vincent Perez]]. She was [[Carré Otis]]' boss in the erotic thriller ''[[Wild Orchid (film)|Wild Orchid]]'' (1989) starring [[Mickey Rourke]].