She also played the title function in the 1985 comedy Desperately Seeking Susan, a film which introduced the music "Into the Groove", her first quantity-one single in the UK.
Madonna starred as Breathless Mahoney within the movie Dick Tracy (1990), with Warren Beatty enjoying the title role. In April, Madonna founded her personal entertainment company, Maverick, consisting of a document company (Maverick Records), a film production company (Maverick Films), and related music publishing, television broadcasting, ebook publishing, and merchandising divisions.

Consisting of sexually provocative and explicit photographs, photographed by Steven Meisel, the e book obtained strong unfavourable reaction from the media and the general public, however bought 1.5 million copies at $50 each in a matter of days. Like a Prayer peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 and offered 15 million copies worldwide.
In one Pepsi business, she debuted "Like a Prayer", the lead single and title track from her fourth studio album. She contributed four songs to its soundtrack, including the title observe and "Causing a Commotion". At the moment, she released two extra hits, "Angel" and "Dress You Up", making all 4 singles from the album peak inside the top five on the new one hundred chart.

The music appeared on a number of charts worldwide; it reached quantity 31 on the US Billboard Hot 100, quantity 25 on the UK Singles Chart, and the highest ten in Israel and Norway.