The Farrah Phenomenon
Farrah Fawcett was one of three actresses hand-picked by producer Aaron Spelling to portray sexy, undercover detectives on the 1976 prime time television hit Charlie's Angels. At the time, the big three networks comprised the major media, and she became a household name within weeks of appearing on the show. It didn't hurt that her husband was Lee Majors, then star of his own popular series, The Six Million Dollar Man.
Farrah's Jose Eber-designed hairstyle became an instant hit with women around the world, and her world-famous, red swimsuit poster graced the walls of teen boys and college dorms throughout the country. Designed and styled by the actress herself, the poster remains the best-selling of all time, surpassing even those of the legendary Betty Grable and the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.
The actress hired photographer Bruce McBroom to do the shoot at her Bel Air, California home. For the back drop, McBroom used the now-famous woven, striped Indian blanket that was covering the seat of his '37 Chevy.
Farrah's Jose Eber-designed hairstyle became an instant hit with women around the world, and her world-famous, red swimsuit poster graced the walls of teen boys and college dorms throughout the country. Designed and styled by the actress herself, the poster remains the best-selling of all time, surpassing even those of the legendary Betty Grable and the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.
The actress hired photographer Bruce McBroom to do the shoot at her Bel Air, California home. For the back drop, McBroom used the now-famous woven, striped Indian blanket that was covering the seat of his '37 Chevy.
Farrah Fawcett Has Died
June 25, 2009
Farrah Fawcett has lost her 3-year battle with cancer. The iconic actress, who was 62, died at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica at 9:28 a.m. Thursday, June 25. At her side were her longtime love, Ryan O'Neal and her friend Alana Stewart.Farrah chronicled her drawn out and highly publicized struggle with cancer in a two-hour special, Farrah's Story, which aired May 15 on NBC. Alana Stewart assisted with the production of the documentary, which began when Farrah brought her camera to a routine follow-up visit with her doctor. Fatefully, it was on that very day she received the devastating news that her cancer had returned and was inoperable.
Fresh-Faced Farrah in the Seventies
According to Farrah...
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.The reason that the all American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.
The reason we're not together is over our different views on parenting. For Redmond, living with his dad was like being at Disneyland.
When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.
A Few Facts About Farrah
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Farrah Fawcett was an American actress. She was a noted pop culture figure whose hairstyle was emulated by millions of young women, and a sex symbol for millions of young men in the 1970s and 1980s. She went on to become a critically accepted actress, appearing off-Broadway and in acclaimed television movies in challenging (The Burning Bed, Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story, Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story, Margaret Bourke-White), and sometimes unsympathetic (Small Sacrifices) roles.
The late 1960s and early 1970s saw Fawcett doing commercials and TV guest spots. In April 1976, a poster company Pro Arts Inc., that had started out making anti-war posters, started to hear about a young up-and-coming beauty named Farrah Fawcett doing Wella Balsam shampoo commercials. They got in touch with her agent at the time, Rick Hersh, and arranged a photo shoot. Fawcett arranged to have Bruce McBroom, a freelance photographer with whom she had worked before, do the shoot. McBroom took the pictures at Farrah's poolside Bel Air, California home. For the back drop, McBroom used the worn, old Indian blanket covering his 1937 Chevrolet car seat.
On September 22, 1976, the first episode of Fawcett playing the character Jill Munroe in the TV series Charlie's Angels was aired. Around the same time, her swimsuit poster was released. It went on to sell a still-unrivaled 12 million copies and she became known for her tousled hair and bright smile. The hairstyle went on to become an international trend, with women sporting a "Farrah-Do" or "Farrah Hair" and the hairstyle was even spoofed in various media, including Redd Foxx's variety show on ABC and Dynamite magazine. Charlie's Angels went on to become a huge hit, but after just one year Fawcett left the show. As settlement to a lawsuit stemming from her early departure, Fawcett appeared three more times as a guest star in each of seasons three and four. Her character was eliminated entirely from the show by 1977. Cheryl Ladd (who portrayed Jill's younger sister Kris) joined the show during the interim.
Farrah Fawcett:
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
Farrah Fawcett Trivia
- Graduated from W.B. Ray High School in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1965
- Was voted Best Looking by her high school clasmates
- Appeared as a contestant on The Dating Game in 1965
- Attended the University of Texas at Austin from 1966 to 1967
- Earned a degree in Microbiology
- Married actor Lee Majors in July 1973; the couple divorced in February 1982
- Lived with actor Ryan O'Neal for 17 years; they remained close friends
- Their son Redmond O'Neal was born in 1985
- Was nominated for 3 Emmy and 5 Golden Globe Awards
- Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (at 7051 Hollywood Blvd.)
- A long-time supporter of the Cancer Society, she lost her own battle with cancer of the intestine on June 25, 2009
The Burning Bed
Farrah Fawcett Filmography
- Myra Breckinridge (1970)
- The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped (1974)
- Murder on Flight 502 (1975)
- Logan's Run (1976)
- Somebody Killed Her Husband (1978)
- Sunburn (1979)
- Saturn 3 (1980)
- Murder in Texas (1981)
- The Cannonball Run (1981)
- Red-Light Sting (1984)
- The Burning Bed (1984)
- Between Two Women (1986)
- Extremities (1986)
- Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story (1986)
- Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1987)
- See You in the Morning (1989)
- Margaret Bourke-White (1989)
- Small Sacrifices (1989)
- Man of the House (1995)
- Dalva (1996)
- The Apostle (1997)
- The Lovemaster (1997)
- The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1998)
- Silk Hope (1999)
- Dr. T and the Women (2000)
- Baby (2000)
- The Cookout (2004)
Murder on Flight 502
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One of director Penny Marshall's first acting jobs was for this Head & Shoulders commercial. She was hired to play a girl with stringy, unattractive hair, and Farrah Fawcett was chosen to play her roommate, a girl with thick, bouncy hair. As the crew was lighting the set, Farrah noticed that Marshall's stand-in wore a sign that read "Homely Girl," while her own stand-in wore one that said "Pretty Girl." Incensed, Farrah crossed out "homely" on the Marshall stand-in placard and wrote "plain." It is also reported that she marched right over to the producer and berated him for his insensitivity.
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A Few Facts About Charlie's Angels
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Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men. The series was broadcast on the ABC Television Network from 1976 to 1981 and was one of the most successful series of the 1970s. Charlie's Angels was created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts and produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg. In pre-production, the original proposed title was The Alley Cats.
Three women, the Angels, (originally Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett-Majors, and Jaclyn Smith) graduated from the police academy only to be assigned such duties as handling switch boards and traffic. They quit and were hired to work for the Charles Townsend Agency as private investigators. Their boss, Charlie (voiced by John Forsythe), is never seen full face - in some episodes he is shown from the rear only (where the viewer only sees the back of his head and his arms) talking through a phone while surrounded by beautiful women - assigning cases to the Angels and his liaison, Bosley (played by David Doyle), via a speaker phone.
Charlie's Angels is episodic in nature, as opposed to serial, thus each episode shows the Angels finding themselves in new situations in which they would go undercover to investigate. The undercover aspect of the show creates much of the plot interest and tension. In the early seasons of the show, the Angels, under their assumed identities, use a combination of sexual wiles and knowledge learned for the situation in which they are being placed, but by the third and fourth seasons, the writing has a tendency to stray from the sex appeal and focus more on the case at hand.
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Charlie's Angels Reunion
August 27, 2006
Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson, and Jaclyn Smith in a rare joint appearance during the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, while paying tribute to producer Aaron Spelling.
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I've really enjoyed watching and reading the tributes to Farrah Fawcett, including this very well done lens. Makes me wish I had actually known her. Great job!
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Beautiful Tribute to Farrah. I've added this lens (and Colleens) to the tribute lens that I just did on "Gone Too Soon," http://www.squidoo.com/gone-too-soon
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I used to love watching Charlie's Angels, and Farrah Fawcett was always my favorite. What a beautiful lens.
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A super lens Farrah was a definite iconic figure. So sad to watch someone suffer.
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