70s Teen Queens! Tatum O'Neal Jodie Foster Kristy McNichol Helen Hunt

Tatum was great in Paper Moon, but it was sort of a rigged performance because she kept forgetting her lines required tons of takes. And aside from a passable performance in Bad New Bears, it was all down hill from there. Kristy acted circles around Tatum in Little Darlings, but Jodie was the undeniable 70s teen-queen, an acclaimed talent and the only real movie star of the bunch.

Wow Kristy McNichol is beating Jodie two to one!

I liked Kristy. She had a sort of soulfulness about her. A vulnerability that made you love her.

They are all gay?

They all worship a the shrine of the Lady of Guadalupe

Linda Blair and Genie Francis

Wow, all four of them are lesbians. Straight boys were confused in the 70's.

I'm a child of the 80s and even I know that Kristy McNichol was the undisputed teen queen.

Before there was Heathers, Clueless, or Easy A there was Little Darlings (the eldergay who even thinks of mentioning The Group can go clean his dentures).

I'm surprised Kristy is kicking Jodie's ass, not that I didn't love her too. And her coming out was a lot more sweet, she wanted to do her part to stop bullying, than Jodie's bizarre, bitter ramblings at the GGs.

Helen Hunt?!

Linda Blair should be in there. Hello, BORN INNOCENT, SARAH T. PORTRAIT OF AN ALCOHOLIC?

I wondered about Helen Hunt too, so I checked imdb, and she was a steadily working child actress in the 70s, guest starring in many series. And she had a regular role in 3 series, but they were all 1 season and no one remembers them. I do remember her as a teen actress, but it wasn't until 1983 with the tv-movie Quarterback Princess. I don't think Helen was famous enough in the 70s to be compared to the other women. She didn't really become famous until Mad About You in 1992.

Kristy was my "crush" in seventh grade. I had to beg my mom to let me stay up to watch "Family" on school nights. It aired at 9 or 10 pm Sundays for some time, if I remember right.

To her credit, and maybe because dad would kindly go up to bed to watch something else, mom usually let me watch with her.

However, if there was a "parental guidance is suggested" warning, I might have to go to bed or wait. "We'll see." Except when Nancy ("that pill" mom called her) was going to get an abortion, pretty much all the other restricted stuff was okay.

Helen Hunt is losing badly, only 2% of the vote.

Kristy and Jodie were very good at what they did and I like both of them. I was never that aware of Helen Hunt in the '70s, but she is also good. I never liked Tatum O'Neal and always thought her dad blew someone to get her that Oscar. It was a joke. The girl couldn't act her way out of a paper bag.

[quote]Which is your fav teen queen from the 1970s?

John Travolta

[quote]I had to beg my mom to let me stay up to watch "Family" on school nights.

I've got the DVD and I'm stuck at home with the flu, so I think I'll give it a second chance.

When I bought it I thought it was boring after all these years.

That awful righteous mother,

Does Kim Richards not belong on this thread?

R17 Who was Kim Richards?

How old are you R18?

Kim was in the Witch Mountain movies, Hello Larry, and Tuff Turf. She's also aunt of Paris Hilton.

[quote]Tatum O'Neal Jodie Foster Kristy McNichol Helen Hunt

I don't think they're all gay. But one of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong, can you tell which thing is not like the others, by the time I finish my song?

Valerie Bertinelli, Susan Dey, Maureen McCormick, Eve Plumb, Mariel Hemingway

Helen Hunt was barely on the radar in the 70s. Brooke Shields belongs on the list.

R8,

Heathers actually borrowed heavily from Massacre At Central High (1976), one of the first modern teen-angst-murderfests.

Some missing names from this list:

Brook Shields (as noted) Dana Plato Lisa Welchel Waltons/Prairie teens Charlene Tilton

(Still Kristy by a landslide)

Oops add all of R21s as well.

Helen Hunt played Marie and Murray Slaughter's daughter on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."

I loved Tatum O'Neal. And I'd love to see her have a second chance and make it big--or even semi-big--acting as an adult.

I had to beg to watch One Day At A Time. I would have put Valerie Bertenelli on the list instead of Helen Hunt.

R26. She was great on Rescue Me

Was Pamelyn Ferdin already over the hill by the late 70's?

Agree that Brooke Shields totally belongs on that list.

She made her name as a model and glamourpuss, but she did some pretty risque movies, despite the fact that she couldn't act.

Linda Blair

Diane Lane

Diane Lane was more 80s.

I voted for Helen, the true talent of the bunch. Jodie's never been believable in any role I've seen her in. I've always never understood her hype, she's too manly.

Whatever happened to Denise Miller? Star of "Fish", "Archie Bunker's Place" and 'Sooner or Later."

Yes, what about me, R33? I am more than just Barbra's one-time step daughter-in-law....

that's true, Diane was mostly 80s. I forgot she was born in 65, unlike her peers....

R10 is right. Linda Blair should be on the list. Kim Richards, too, maybe.

I only remember Helen Hunt being on "Swiss Family Robinson" back in the 70s. Seems like she did more TV movies in the 80s.

I know Kristy McNichol has retired from show business, but I'm curious what she now does for a living. I can't imagine her being able to survive off making appearances at celebrity conventions.

R40, it is a good question, what does Kristy do for money in 2018... could her earnings have been invested so well that she's set for life? The most recent press piece i found for her was from 2015. It's a People mag article... Kristy lives in LA and had gone back to college and that led her to join the school's choir (which she loved). She was working with a local foundation to raise money for low-income college students who were involved in music.

I check on her brother as well. He lives in Colorado, does construction. He's been married since 1997 and has a couple of kids.

It's nice to read that they both seemed to have moved on with their lives, right?

Wasn't it Lisa Gerritsen who was on the Mary Tyler Moore Show?

What about Jamie Lee Curtis? Or was she mostly 80's?

Glynnis O'Connor.

Because of Helen Hunt famous, cult-status performance as a druggie who goes through a window in the TV Movie Desperate Lives, she belongs on the list.

Helen Hunt also belongs on the list because she has been constantly confused for Jodie Foster since she was a teenager!

Go 3:58 into clip to hear Helen talk about that

The state of CA real estate was such that if you bought a few or even one really good coastal property, you're set for life.

Maureen "Marcia Brady" says she came out of her child acting career with $400,000 and Johnny "Family Affair" Weissmuller said he came out with about $800,000. So using them as a base, and considering Kristy was later on when earnings were higher and she also worked in movies and later on in a TV series, she probably came about with over a million. She probably didn't waste hers on drugs as she was half crazy without them already.

Hunt was on two short lived series, the Fitzpatricks and the Swiss Family Robinson. And she was also Murray's daughter on MTM and was with Kristy on Family and of course on Facts of Life in 1980

R47 Wasn't it Eve Plumb who just recently made bank off her coastal property?

Lesbionics

[quote]Johnny "Family Affair" Weissmuller

Johnny Whitaker (oops)....

He also said when he went to get his money, he only had two hundred grand. He said, his parents used it to support his 7 brothers and sisters and send them to college and of course his parents were his agents so they got paid and so on and so on.

Kristy was obviously the '70s teen queen and a lot of it had to do with her sexually ambiguous looks. Young girls could get a crush on her because she looked like a cute boy. As an actress, no one in that group could touch her, not even Foster. The old acting cliche was true about McNichol. She never projected, she simply was the character.

Seriously, if there were teen queens, Blair would be in there as would Shields. Although she never came to the heights of those three, Mariel Hemingway would be an asterisk with Lipstick, Manhattan and that potboiler TV movie I want to keep my baby.

[quote]What about Jamie Lee Curtis? Or was she mostly 80's?

Not a "teen"; she was 20 when "Halloween" came out.

Marie Osmond should be in there as well.

....back then they called them TOMBOYS...now they call them LESBIANS...

My vote would go to Jodie--loved "Last House on the Left" growing up. First gay crush!

Irene Cara

Sorry I mean " Little Girl who lived Down the Lane"

[quote] Kristy was obviously the '70s teen queen and a lot of it had to do with her sexually ambiguous looks. Young girls could get a crush on her because she looked like a cute boy. As an actress, no one in that group could touch her, not even Foster. The old acting cliche was true about McNichol. She never projected, she simply was the character.

She always comes across as genuine. I thought she was great in WHITE DOG.

Kristy was really the only one who made the teen beat magazines. She wanted to be a pop star.

The others wanted to be Serious Actresses.

Diane Lane.

Dana Plato

Glynnis O'Conner and sidepiece Robbie Benson were everywhere in the '70s.

GO'C also starred with John Revolta in something, maybe "The Boy in the Bubble."

Yup, it was Eve, R49. I think there may have been a thread about it.

[quote]'Brady Bunch's' Eve Plumb sells Malibu beach house for $3.9M after buying it as an 11-year-old for $55,300

I didn't know Helen Hunt had been around since the 70s.

adore paper moon.

Kristi's "confession" scene in "Little Darlings" ALONE should have netted her an Oscar nom.

Still not sure why she didn't make the A list like Jodie and Helen. Obviously, the whole "He's a Dancer", teen idol thing didn't help.

Little Darlings is one of my favorite films, and probably Kristy's best. Tatum O'Neal and Cynthia Nixon also starred. It's a shame it's taking so long for a DVD release, but I guess all the songs from the film are tied up in copyright claims.

Just recently watched Two Moon Junction and Kristy McNichol's boobs were out.

Helen Hunt wasn't really that popular in the 70s. She was on two failed TV shows and not too much else of note. Except an MTM as Murray's daughter whom he was saving up to buy a new coat for. Yet they still adopted that Vietnamese kid while not being able to provide for the other kids. Joyce Bulifant needed to get a job.

Little Darlings plays on TCM sometimes. I was struck by how good Kristy was in it. A really heartfelt performance. Tatum is awful though. She has an effected semi-British accent in is just false in every moment.

Foster used to confuse me as a child. I remember watching Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore on TV one afternoon. I was like, why is she acting like a boy?

and John Hinckley wanted to date her? Bizarre.

[quote] Tatum is awful though. She has an effected semi-British accent in is just false in every moment.

If you're up for a truly awful Tatum O'Neal performance check out Certain Fury. Her attempt at playing a street tough prostitute is something to behold.

Love Tatum. Wish she had a more prominent acting career as an adult.

I grew up in the 80s when they still showed a lot of 70s movies and shows on TV. I had such a crush on Kristy. I didn't know about Jodie until the 90s, has been enamored of her ever since. And of course I'm a lesbian.

Jodie Foster was excellent in "The Girl That Lived Down The Lane". Awesome movie.

I'm a gay male, and I crushed on Krisry too!

Kristy was heartbreaking in "Summer of my German Soldier"

“Jo” on “Facts if Life”...but that was 80s, right?

They were all gay. 95 percent of Hollywood is gay. Bearded marriages r producing gay children. Brad and Angelina produced gay kids. Angelinss father us gay. I'm left thinking John Wayne is gay. Why would he marry only Mexicans . Back in the thirties. Crazy. America deserves better.

Watch who you call a Mexican R80

R80, mister homophobe at R80, actually you’re right, as John Wayne really was gay, or at least bisexual. Sorry to “disappoint”.

Yes, our daddy was gay.

Does anyone remember "Like Mom, Like Me", the TV movie Kristy did with DL fave Linda Lavin? Note in this promo that Lavin isn't given one word of dialogue. It actually was a good movie and as always, Kristy gave her usual, natural, unaffected performance.

R82, hard to believe John Wayne was straight. All his friends were gay. His director only hired gay male models. Wayne was model. Burt Reynolds is gay. Gary cooper, Henry fonda, Jimmy Stewart,steve McQueen, James garner all his friends. Gary cooper was very feminine off screen. At least Wayne was Republican.

I always thought Tom boys were just going through A phase but now I think they grow up to b lesbians. Tatum was destined to b gay as her father was gay and only hung with lesbians like Farrah. Farrah only hung with gays like six million dollar man. Not a homophobic person, per se. The Nazis forced gays to have sex with Jewish women in concentration camps as conversion therapy. The homophobic Nazis were boiling their tentacles. I guess it is all relative what a homophobic person is. Cheers.

Laura Ingalls?

Looks interesting R84.... Sorry I missed that one!

Laura was adopted by Jewish couple. Laura was straight. She dated very macho guys like tammy cruise and Roberta Lowe. Ironically,lauras sister who is not biologically related is a lesbian and almost as ugly as Laura. Melissa Gilbert sure dated out of her league. Still does. Why is Melissa so popular as a beard? I was not convinced that cruise was gay until he dated Melissa. Choose your beards better,folks.

Melissa Gilbert was too homely to be considered a teen queen.

Ouch

Melissa Gilbert dated Tom Cruise and Rob Lowe. She can't b that homely.

R92 Maybe she had connections. Neither one of those guys were a big name at the time and I could see that being their only interest.

[quote]It's a shame it's taking so long for a DVD release, but I guess all the songs from the film are tied up in copyright claims.

Please don't mention any songs from Little Darlings..it took me a whole fucking month to get this one out of my head!