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MERYL STREEP ‘I WAS NEVER THE PROM QUEEN’ 29

In Netflix’s new musical The Prom, Meryl Streep stars as a narcissistic Broadway diva who decides to help a teenage lesbian after she’s banned from bringing her girlfriend to her formal. And the legendary actress tells New Idea that she was a regular attendee at her own high school’s night of nights.

“[I went to] four [proms]. I went to the senior prom when I was a [high school] freshman,” the 71-year-old

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