Farrah Fawcett--wow she was beautiful

In the 1960s and 1970s she was very stunning. Her features were not the most conventionally beautiful, but at her peak show she glowed, great hair and smile. She had bad taste in men (they might have been hot but were either awful, abusive people or just bad for her) and then drugs started taking over her and began looking rough. She was starting to look a bit worn in that clip.

She really had a great career resurgence after most totally wrote her off and got taking seriously as an actress for a while. It's too bad many people today only remember her for Charlie's Angels (although I love that show), her later life which a bit of a mess and sad illness and death.

R2 Totally agree. Ryan O'Neal was poison.

I never thought she was beautiful at all. Striking yes, and let's face it her blonde iconic 70s flick became sensational, but other than that she was not a beauty. Right time and place. So often the case.

Re watching the start of CA on ME TV and yes she was magic. Sassy and she had that look. Kate used to call her Teeth and Hair. Amazing there were no catfights that 1st season of CA even though Farrah was the obvious break out star.

Looked old and had no lips. Not beautiful.

Good sculptor, too.

Iconic 70's look

She had that popular 1970's white trash look.

[quote]I never thought she was beautiful at all. Striking yes, and let's face it her blonde iconic 70s flick became sensational, but other than that she was not a beauty.

You know, God love ya, you're entitled to your opinion but Farrah didn't need a lion's mane of hair to be beautiful.

Great body

Still very much a beauty at 40 years old. It's not only he hair and smile. Farrah had a beautiful body, lovely speaking voice, pretty green eyes and and a natural sexiness. She wasn't "classically" beautiful, but she is STILL one of the memorable beauties of the seventies and eighties.

I don't think she was white trash at all. Lean and gleaming, natural and alive. She was a sweet person by all accounts. Just a gorgeous creature.

From Wikipedia:

she attended the University of Texas, where she studied microbiology before switching her major to art

I guess she had some brains too. Microbiology is a pretty tough major.

Did any of the angels graduate college? Farrah seems to have left after three years since agents were calling and wanted her to come to LA.

She was the perfect look for the times. By the end of the seventies the fitness boom was happening - and those angels girls all looked fit and squeaky clean and natural - yet managed by be ridiculously beautiful - and sexy! Lean, fit bodies. Glowing skin, lustrous hair, perfect white teeth - they aced it! Models like Lauren Hutton and Cheryl Tiegs had it too.

Of course - the hair - especially farrah’s flick - had to be touseled and sprayed between each take to look so naturally perfect - but that’s the magic of film & tv ;)

Mind you - Farrah guested as a love interest of Larry hagman or his astronaut buddy/sidekick late in the run of I dream of Jeannie years before CA - and she had that late sixties helmet-ey, slightly bouffant do - and was still a knockout. She was lovely.

I read somewhere years ago that when she was a teenager (think it was in corpus Christie in Texas?) - that kids from school would literally follow her home when school was out - and hang around after she went in - just hoping to get a glimpse of her. She was apparently even more compelling in the flesh and people just delighted in looking at her. That’s before the makeup and all the elaborate hair remember - so she really had that star quality/factor X most of her life...

Such a gorgeous woman.

[quote]Did any of the angels graduate college?

Only Miss Hack. She graduated from Smith.

Logan’s Run

R14 again - vaguely remember a comment made by a pundit years ago - probably not long after the time of CA and farrah’s huge fame - along the lines of how she/they made being healthy - sexy!

This was no mean feat after decades and decades of fashionable, sexually desirable female icons being delicate, painted dolls or pale, aristocratic languid types. It seemed Farrah was without artifice in comparison - just glowed with health and vitality - fit and active! So sexy! And Seemingly no artificial packaging. A revelation.

She was not that beautiful. It’s just the hair that made her stand out.

I wouldn't say she was beautiful, but she was pretty and most importantly she had IT. Same can be said of Garbo and Monroe.

She still looks vital and attractive here in 1994.

The 90s weren't very happy years for her, but in the early 90s she was productive and still having fun.

She had too much work done on her nose after the 70s.

She had the IT factor as everyone pointed out. Really pretty but a more interesting pretty rather than dull, everyday cutesy pretty.

She had a small role on Larry Sanders and she was git-busting funny. Too bad she never got taken seriously as an actress because of her looks.

Gut-busting*

Sorry, fat fingers.

I loved her.

I love 1965 Farrah! She had the best hair, it would do anything.

Imagine, as famous as she got, this was probably the photo her parents in Texas had on top of the TV set.

Never "got" her. Kind of a manly face. I guess she had a je ne sais quoi though.

Well I shouldn't say I didn't get it, just that I didn't think she was actually very pretty. But I could see that she did have some sort of magnetism.

Tragically overrated.

As you can see in R25's pic, the woman had some serious cankles. Here, too.

I wouldn't say beautiful. She was pretty.

R31 She was merely Gorgeous.

Kate Jackson and Farrah Fawcett were good friends on Charlie's Angels. When Farrah left after the first season and was replaced by Cheryl Ladd, Kate resented it and apparently gave her the cold shoulder.

She was gorgeous when she guest started on The Partridge Family.

Amazingly beautiful and photogenic. Just gorgeous.

Did she turn Lee Majors Gay ?

LMAO @the video @R9. "Glove soft VINYL."

I never saw the appeal of Farah. I guess she looked like the All American California Girl though. She always looked sun burned to me. I never found her beautiful at all and her voice irritated the hell out of me.

She became a pin-up favourite for teenage boys. Her long angular face is very appealing to the white working class.

She looked very good in a bathing suit.

Listen up, she got anal cancer from hpv. In fact the foundation that bears her name is aiding in research to find a cure for hpv related cancers. Men who bottom have a much higher rate of anal cancer than men in general. Make sure a screening for anal warts (which are caused by hpv and may lead to cancer) is part of your regular check up. You won't necessarily know you have them if they're up far enough.

I can't believe how much hair she has in OP's video but I don't think she would toss her head like that if she was wearing a wig.

[quote]Too bad she never got taken seriously as an actress because of her looks.

She got good reviews with a lot of her TV movie work. She got a couple of Emmy noms as well.

The problem was her movie career didn't take off the way people thought it would. After leaving CA she chose some shitty projects.

Ryan did a real number on her as well.

[r41] She had really thick hair. This was before hair extensions.

John McEnroe said during his WWHL appearance last month that Farrah was fucked up while she was with Ryan O'Neal, and was basically nuts. McEnroe was married to Tatum O'Neal.

R12 I didn't mean that she was white trash but the people who admired her in the 1970's were.

Who was it that fucked her butt to give her the hpv infection, Ryan ONeal?

Early Farrah...

Most straight men would have died to be with her.

She was always voted most beautiful in high school and was the only freshman at UT in the top 10 most beautiful co eds so she was considered beautiful. Part of her beauty and charm was her angelic voice.

I never thought she was beautiful, but the overbleached teeth signal "beautiful" to Americans. Sharon Stone is a classic beauty, Fawcett was a pop culture icon.

She died the same day as Michael Jackson, in 2009. Got totally overshadowed. She did a documentary about her treatment for metastatic rectal cancer that was pretty brutal. Showed her all emaciated and vomiting etc. Ryan O’Neil was at her side the whole time.

Nah, that must be a wig. Her hair is just too thick and big.

^^^ in OP's video I mean.

I was a kid when Charlie’s angels was on, but her blonde looked kinda gray to me

[quote]I didn't mean that she was white trash but the people who admired her in the 1970's were.

Sure Jan. The people who were buying her poster, buying magazines with articles about her and watching "Charlie's Angels" specifically for her were all white trash. She made millions off of white trash.

I don't usually cry about media figures, but in r51's documentary, when they shaved off the last of her once-beautiful mane, I teared up.

Ms. Fawcett in Logan's Run.

That has got to be a wig in OP's video. It looks the most suspect when she reaches up to scratch her forehead and whole wig seems to move. It's a Tina Turner-esque wig.

Love her singing voice.

I didn't know Warhol did her portrait.

She was absolutely stunning in "Myra Breckenridge." Horrible movie, but you couldn't take your eyes off her when she was on screen.

She wore extensions, or whatever version there was back then.

Bitch settled for my sloppy seconds.

I had this T-shirt of Farrah from Logan's Run. As a gay man I could appreciate her great beauty.

Ryan O'Neal has her Warhol on the market for 19 million dollars. The other one is at the University of Texas with Farrah's archives. She left all her artwork to them. Farrah was quite talented as an artist and sculptor.

I love Farrah's Warhol. She looks scared and a little tough. Her eyes are the star, not her hair. She looks modern. I think it's one of his better ones to be honest, though they are just silkscreened polaroids. Anyway I digress. Ryan O'Neal didn't love Farrah, he isn't capable of loving anyone. But he did need her and continues to profit from their relationship. He's a shit.

Sorry, I posted the wrong link.

Welp, I guess my status as a gay man is confirmed because I find OP’s photo hideous.

....

Sharon Stone is revolting. A bald cunt.

I thought she was underrated as an actress. I first noticed her in the TV movie, Jewel (2001), where she played a 1940s mom to a girl with Down Syndrome.

She was also very fine as Woolworth's heiress Barbara Hutton, in the mini-series Poor Little Rich Girl.

R30.....cankles?? you have no clue what cankles look like....trust me, no one was staring at her ankles anyway. ever.

She was certaily a good looking woman. What made her really appealing to the public was her totally blank, vapid personality.

She fucked over her looks with sun damage, eventually.

[quote]r69 Sharon Stone is revolting. A bald cunt.

Oh, I'm sorry, no.

She's also about 10 times the actrss FF was. See CASINO.

ironic that they talked about the Burning Bed; didn't Johnny smack his wife?

Whose lawn did she shit on?

Sharon Stone is a beautiful woman. But she's not a better actress than Farrah Fawcett.

Her relationship with this narcissistic, selfish, brutal, lying trash, speck of a man is what ruined Farrah Fawcett.

I think Jennifer O'Neal was the most beautiful 70s starlet. But no one talks about her anymore.

She was kicked out of her sorority at UT after the house mother caught her and a guy in the shower together. I think he was a football player. I think she left Austin right after and went to Hollywood. The rest is history.

R78, I used to think that about Jennifer O'Neill

I read an interview she did with Jon Erik Hexum before his death when they were on the show Cover Up.

I don't think she was very nice to him; makes her less pretty.

OP: That is obviously a wig.

she's got Susan Anton hair.

"Charlie's Angels" - Season One opening credits (1976-77).

The show was hugely successful, and Farrah became a phenomenon.

Farrah Fawcett, the former Charlie's Angel and pin-up model who passed away on June 25 after a long fight with cancer, was a member of Delta Delta Delta (Tri-Delta) Sorority.

Sorority members at the University of Texas at Austin, where Fawcett was an undergraduate in 1966, mourned the passing of their fellow sister on the day of her private funeral in Los Angeles, CA.

Delta Delta Delta, one of the largest women's organizations in the world, was founded in 1888 at Boston University.

Posted 2nd July 2009 by Phil Velez

Farrah went to the same hair place as my mom. They would insert little metal rods in your head and attach real hair mixed in with your own. It was crazy expensive in the 80s and adjusted every 6 weeks or so

BTW, her looks weren't ruined by sun damage but hideous plastic surgery.

How quickly it can all change; Farrah was huge and left the show to do movies. But she couldn't act.

Kate can act but the show wouldn't let her out to do Kramer vs. Kramer.

CA hit #1 in its second season with Cheryl Ladd (a feat it didn't accomplish in season one)

The iconic shot, for me, in those opening credits is that turn Jaclyn gives where we only see one eye.

She was really good in the Barbra Hutton story mini series movie. I really enjoy that movie. I was just watching it on YouTube.

She's very good in the Barbara Hutton mini series (bonus for the clothes and hairstyles) and excellent in Small Sacrifices, playing Diane Downs. Farrah could act, she just couldn't transition to the big screen. She was already 30 when Charlies Angels hit.

What's the truth behind Farrah's "relationship" with Aaron Spelling? There were Blinds about it long after her time on the series ended, and how Candy reacted.

Everybody loved Farrah. She just had IT, and seemed like a lovely woman. Her death was terribly sad coming after years of decline with Ryan, drugs, and madness.

Why did Farrah leave Lee Majors for Ryan O'Neal?

If you watch the video at op Ryan O'Neal acts like he is on the Sammy Maudlin show. Carson tells a joke and Ryan slaps his knees with such fake laughter.

because lee majors was stupid enough to ask his pal ryan to keep her company while he was away making a movie on location.

what a dummy.

if anyone believes she cannot act i suggest you watch

Small Sacrifices

The Burning Bed

Extremities

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story

Was it really her choice to quit Charlie's Angels? Didn't that manager and Lee Majors get greedy and wanted her to do it?

She was fantastic in Small Sacrifices. Totally caught the craziness of that women.

Talk about synchronicity. I was just watching a documentary on Farrah. She was not only gorgeous, with hair and a smile that could light up space, she was so kind, so funny and warm. She was a dream girl .

That must have been a typo, R85. You can't have really meant that they inserted metal rods in your head! Ouch! But your story is intriguing....tell us more.

[quote]I never thought she was beautiful, but the overbleached teeth signal "beautiful" to Americans. Sharon Stone is a classic beauty, Fawcett was a pop culture icon.

They didnt beech teeth back then you French twat. Yes we know, you all love Sharon Stone with shaved bush and plastic surgery.

Too bad her insatiable lust for raw anal got her the ass cancer.

Anal sex is nasty

Isn't Irreconcilable Differences about Peter Bogdonovitch and Cybil Sheppard? How did he feel about having his old leading man (O"Neal) play him?

Farrah claimed to never had any formal acting training. There were rumors she took some specialized classes though at HB Studio in the 80s before she decided to go the serious actor route.

She got some rave reviews for The Burning Bed, Extremities (the play and movie) and Small Sacrifices in particular. A lot of actresses wanted that Small Sacrifices part, but Farrah got it because her name value and her TV movies got good ratings and lots of press. She totally nailed that role.

I like Sharon Stone, but she's a very inconsistent actress. She can be good, but also very bad. I don't think Sharon could pull of a raw performance as Farrah did in Burning Bed or Extremities or a cold blooded child killer like in Small Sacrifices.

Lee Majors was a control freak who wanted an "old fashioned" wife. He didn't handle Farrah not always being that and becoming even more famous than him. I've heard conflicting rumors if he was physically abusive to Farrah.

Ryan O'Neal is a toxic mess. He made Farrah and his children (except Patrick, who wasn't around him growing up as much) dysfunctional messes. Thankfully she left him him no money, but he did nab that Warhol of her that is worth millions.

One of the guys she was with after Ryan beat the hell out of her too. Rumor some of the plastic surgery she had was to fix some of the damage from the beatings she got. He nose was crooked and never the same after that. Must've been badly broken.

Good Lord...

Remember how she acted so odd on Letterman that time. That was kind of the beginning of the end.

I don't find her beautiful either, to me, she's one of those people who have a great appearance, but aren't beautiful. She was definitely "of the time" though.

[quote] have a great appearance, but aren't beautiful.

ok. whatever.

Yes, for the hair thing they insert very small metal rods into the skull- at least then. What price beauty! Extensions took all day too.

R108, she had a nice body, nice hair, great teeth, but if you look at her face, it's nothing special, and not particularly beautiful. Her eyes are green, but aren't beautifully shaped, thin lips, nothing great. But she WAS attractive, and was just right for the time period.

You sound insane r110.

Some women just seem to be drawn to abusive men don't they? Sad. Was her father abusive? It's often repeated behaviour.

Liked being beat and fucked up the ass- gurl had problems.

She also appeared on one of Comedy Central's roasts where they were brutal to her about her looks being gone and how old and dried up she was. She seemed so different, like she'd had some break with reality. She had been arrested trying to break into her loser boyfriends house.....a lot went wrong after she turned 50. Ryan O'Neal did a number on her, but she was such a healthy living chick before that. A combination of age and alcohol and prescription drugs and some very bad plastic surgery seemed to rob her of vitality and sense. Tatum O'Neal and his son both have said that Ryan beat Farrah. Maybe all the men she knew did.

Murder in Texas Farrah was very pretty in a clean, classy way. She looked like this everyday playing tennis too. She didn't need to sex it up so much but she got trapped in her image. Not uncommon.

I think the poster upthread may be right. Someone smashed in her face and they tried to surgically fix it. Her looks declined so rapidly - quite a while before she got sick.

This one time at band camp? I was in line at the grocery store and the woman behind me picked up a magazine with a trashed-out, fucked-up Farrah on the cover. After giving the photo a derisive once over, she said to me, "Wow. Did you EVER think you'd be better looking than Farrah Fawcett?"

I LOVED her. She combined full-on glamour with athleticism, which at the time was a radically different approach. Plus she came across as being incredibly sweet, which really came through on camera. What was it, the 1978 Oscars, where she was poured into a gold dress, and with her lion's mane of gold hair and pretty incredible body she was a sight to behold.

"You sound insane [R110]."

Compare her to someone like Marilyn Monroe, who was truely beautiful. MM had beautiful eyes, not just because of the color, but look at them on their own. They were gorgeous. MM's lips were full without being overly so. Every part of the sum was beautiful. That's why she's still a standard all it he beautiful women are held up to, and Farrah is largely forgotten unless the 70s, or charlie's angels is mentioned.

MM wasn't all that before she had plastic surgery, R118. Farrah was.

Marilyn was fat.

Good GOD, R120. Do you have a death wish? Do you know what happens to the fraus around here when you suggest that Mother Marilyn was FAT?? I can hear their thundering hooves now, I tell you!

Marilyn wasn't fat then

Marilyn is fat now

Marilyn wasn't fat

R119 have you seen Marilyn before the ps? She was all that, even then. Never a bad picture, Farrah can't say that.

I was going to post what you did, r114. They were cruel to her on Letterman that night, and I remember the roast you mention. She tried to play along and laugh it off but it was really hurtful. Especially the comments about her on Letterman because, unlike on a roast, you would not expect them to be rude about how she was no longer hot.

Yes, R123. I know all about MM, so don't even go there. I was alive when she was, if you get my drift.

R125, then get your cataracts taken care of grandma, because Farrah can't compare to Marilyn.

I don't get why every female on the planet has to be compared to MM. Farrah and Marilyn had totally different things going on. Why the incessant comparing? They were both stunning, for fuck's sake. You could even say that Farrah was the MM of her day, if you insist on comparisons.

Fraus are boring, and so excrutiatingly limited. There's more to life than Marilyn, if you'll forgive me for making such an egregious pronouncement.

Not just Marilyn, any really beautiful woman. Without the hair, Farrah was pretty at best.

Yeah, well. Tell that to all the people in Texas who stood around outside her door just hoping to catch a glimpse of her.

She had a dazzling American style beauty. Clean, athletic, healthy. Of course she wore makeup and every tousled hair was artfully placed but she radiated natural sexiness and femininity. She wasn't sending it up, she was IT. She WAS very pretty but also a bit angular, lean, sporty. A beautiful woman of her time. Too much hair and teeth, blonde, beauty contestant? She transcended that. She was shy and sweet and yes, underrated.

"Yeah, well. Tell that to all the people in Texas who stood around outside her door just hoping to catch a glimpse of her."

Most Texans look like deliverance extras, so...

On the day that Farrah and Michael Jackson died, I went to my neighborhood bodega and the college kid (straight male) who works there kept on talking and talking about Farrah. I told him I thought he'd be more upset about Michael Jackson's death, and he looked at me like I was crazy. "Farrah might have been before my time," he said, "but I know sexy when I see it." So, yeah, I agree with earlier posters that Farrah definitely had "it."

It's interesting the comparisons (and contrasts) between Farrah and Marilyn Monroe. I do think the one characteristic that they did share is vulnerability, which perhaps made them even sexier, especially in the eyes of staight males.

Excellent point, R134.

Her sunny disposition and her infectious laugh made her even more beautiful. It’s so sad and really angers me that she was badly beaten to the point of wrecking her face. 💔😡

I've always thought that Lynda Carter was the most beautiful of all the 70s ladies.

R137

She was but is a bitch on wheels

Jaclyn Smith was a great beauty

Details, r138?

Farrah’s extensions. Scroll to 13th paragraph.

R114 That was her 2005 appearance on Letterman. This is the one from 1997 where she appears drugged and incoherent.

[R51] [R55] I never saw the documentary. I looked for it online. Not available anywhere. Does anyone know how to watch it?

I thought in her heyday she was a stunningly beautiful woman who could stop the traffic with her looks. She had great beauty but unfortunately had a tragic life because of her partner choices.

Farrah’s interview with Johnny Carson after she did Poor Little Rich Girl.

She was good in “Between Two Women” as a woman who becomes caretaker to her cunty mother-in-law played by Colleen Dewhurst. I think Dewhurst won an Emmy.

She was pretty, she was not a great beauty. She also had a nose job very early on to those complaining about Marilyn Monroe or Sharon Stone not being natural beauties.

Jaclyn was the prettiest Angel. But , she Is a Repug bitch .

Farrah and her hair.

What was with that dark, sandy, dirty, almost greyish blonde hair back in the 70s/80s?

You see it on a lot of tv and movie stars back than. What it that look called?

[quote]Lee Majors was a control freak who wanted an "old fashioned" wife.

One with a dick?

She was, at her peak in the mid to late 70s, the epitome of a healthy, blonde, California girl.

I think Farrah and Marilyn were the two most photogenic women of all time. We never saw Marilyn grow old so it's impossible to know how she would have aged. Farrah at her peak was the most gorgeous woman on the planet.

[quote]r78 I think Jennifer O'Neill was the most beautiful 70s starlet. But no one talks about her anymore.

Jennifer O'Neill is heart-stoppingly beautiful, and started an enormously successful (and long lasting) modeling career at age 14 or something.

Sadly, she's also an untalented airhead ... a born-again christian who's been married nine times.

Those bombshells have such a difficult time turning the big 5-0. In your 40s these days, good diet and exercise and modern cosmetic surgery techniques let you stave off a lot of the worst ravages of aging, but after 50 there's no way you're going to look truly young. You can look good for your age, but a really hot 25 year old will leave you in the dust any day of the week. That must be hard to accept when you once WERE the hot 25 year old. Heather Locklear seems to be having a similar hard time accepting reality, as has Madonna. I'm betting Angelina Jolie won't accept 50 gracefully, either.

R148 - I wonder if Farrah would have voted for Trump too.

It must mess up a girl to be that beautiful and have people follow you home.

[quote]r76 Sharon Stone is a beautiful woman. But she's not a better actress than Farrah Fawcett.

Farrah Fawcett had 2 speeds ... sunnily ditzy, and mournfully tortured.

That was it.

I used to see her at Starbucks occassionlly in West Hollywood. She was tiny and very thin. This was before her cancer diagnosis and even then she appeared brittle. I never could understand why she was considered a ' sex symbol ' . She resembled a 14 year old boy in a big wig.

R159 lies

First of all, we need to recognize that will the performer supplies the raw material, there are thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of artistry, supplied by many different professionals, that go into making a star look good on film. Part of the unearthly glow we're seeing is like a sugary glaze that's been put on a cake.

About FF specifically . . . she was sexy and pretty in her small scale way, which was PERFECT for TV, and her era. Her amazing hair and smile made her exceptional.

As a package, she was easily digestible. And the public loves that.

Farrah Fawcett had no mystery or texture to her.

You cannot compare her to a blonde like Catherine Denueve, who even if it's opaque, just naturally conveys a deeper sense of dramatic impact.

Farrah Fawcett was a pop culture phenomenon thanks in part to a million selling poster and het role on Charlie’s Angels.

Nobody has ever compared Farrah to Deneuve. Like r163 said, Farrah was a pop culture phenomenon. She was in the right place at the right time in the culture. Nobody wanted mystery or texture from Farrah, that wasn't her job.

^^ I am saying true beauty and talent have a depth to them. It's like the ocean, where you don't see all that's going on, and more is releaved depending on the tide.

Farrah was kind of a tin star. Essentially shallow. So, when a thread's titled "wow she was beautiful," part of me goes, "Well, to an extent."

Beauty can just be beauty, like models in magazines. Depth is nice, of course, but I think you're reading far too much into it.

The finer points of beauty are also completely subjective. It depends on what your life experience has been, and what you value.

It's also based somewhat on what one might look like, themselves.

Farrah Fawcett was much more popular than Catherine Deneuvu!

R127 r128 I agree. I don't hate Marilyn but she's never fascinated me and the obsession with her as the Ultimate Hollywood Woman feels so overdone. In the mid 2000s, the Marilyn obsession was particularly out of control. Every b list starlet just HAD to do a photo shoot paying homage to her. Over and over again, the same poofy blond wig and open mouth stare. There were so many glamorous and beautiful women of Old Hollywood and 60s cinema that I'd rather read about . Hedy Lamar, Carole Lombard, Louise Brooks, Sharon Tate (who I personally find the most beautiful ), Catherine Deneuve, Jane Birkin, Claudia Cardinale, even Doris Day.

She had the all American healthy athletic girl look and she was breathtakingly beautiful in her prime.

She was the complete package of personality, charisma and beauty. You could say a lot about certain features, but in their totality, in her, they worked.

RIP, golden girl, RIP.

Sorry but Farrah was really stupid for leaving the Angels as soon as she did. If her agent was any good she would have been in movies from the beginning.

Farrah clearly had charisma, but she also had timing to an extent: She was the right look at the right time. California culture ruled in the late 70s, and she was the ultimate California Dream Girl. However, she did hit on the late side: Nearly 30 when Angel's premiered, and she left too soon. She should have stayed for at least 3 seasons to really establish herself. But perhaps she DID feel the clock was ticking and wanted to make hay while she could. Unfortunately, she had shitty taste in projects. A better idea would have been to stay on the TV show, which paid shit, but cash in on endorsements the TV exposure would have guaranteed her.

[quote]r168 Farrah Fawcett was much more popular than Catherine Deneuvu!

I love how half of us are woefully misspelling her name : )

R174 I don’t think anyone really cares how that bitch spells her name since the thread isn’t about her nor was she even remotely as popular as Farrah Fawcett was.

[quote]r169 I don't hate Marilyn but she's never fascinated me and the obsession with her as the Ultimate Hollywood Woman feels so overdone.

What's fascinating to many about MM is that while she was conventionally sexy, there was also an undercurrent of something darker, and more natural, happening beneath the surface (maybe because she was certifiably crazy?)

There's no guarantee she would have ever delivered on her deeper possibilities, had she lived. But she was certainly more complex, in her abilities and her personality, than she was called upon to be in most films and appearances.

She wasn't plastic, even if most of her roles were.

Et moi?

[quote]r175 I don’t think anyone really cares how that bitch spells her name since the thread isn’t about her nor was she even remotely as popular as Farrah Fawcett was.

Popular with [italic]who,[/italic] though? The bowling alley crowd?

Most of FF's fans have never seen CD in anything, while CD's fans would laugh FF off the (TV) screen.

Deneuve is a film star who worked with Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut, Roman Polanski. ... any number of important directors. Fawcett is the eternal TV starlet who blew it.

This is a thread about Farrah, r178. Go start your own thread about Catherine.

Oh , dear. Look at R178 trying to sound smart!

[quote]r179 This is a thread about Farrah, [R178]. Go start your own thread about Catherine.

MAKE ME, bitch!

Farrah went from a stunningly beautiful woman to looking like a drug-crazed hooker. Fame has a price!

And so does butt sex - -

Yes, she would have done herself a favor if she would have stayed with Charlie's Angels. But I resent a stupid studio who refused to pay her and Suzanne. Summers what they were worth and they were worth a lot.

And then there's Paris Hilton. Now she was truly a pop culture figure during her heyday.

Now she's just another wealthy socialite living a life of leisure and jet setting all around the world.

And there’s Paris Hilton’s name, stinking up the Farrah Fawcett thread.

[quote]r184 I resent a stupid studio who refused to pay her and Suzanne Somers what they were worth, and they were worth a lot.

Fawcett and Somers agreed to (comparably) crappy salaries for their breakout roles. No one hires relative unknowns for big bucks.

It's not ethical business practice to go on strike just because the tide's happened to turn your way. (FF's case is murkier, because she claims she never actually signed a contract. That argument didn't work so well for Kim Basinger when she dropped out of BOXING HELENA, though.)

They should've called Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland. Those two know a thing or two about going up against the studios.

And winning.

But Bette and Olivia were already well-established stars when they chose to fight the studios. Farrah, in particular, had only been truly famous for about a year.

I don't think Farrah quit Charlie's Angels due for monetary reasons. She knew she was mega popular and wanted to give movies a shot. They tried temping her into coming back, with a raise and other perks, but she refused all. They sued her and won and she had to come back for 6 episodes for Seasons 3 and 4. She was not happy about that at all.

Suzanne did basically quit because she wanted more money (a lot of it). She (and the others on the show) did deserve more than what they got, but most TV stars didn't make a whole lot back then. Suzanne got greedy. She demanded $150,000 per episode and 10 % of the shows profits and wouldn't settle for less. No way was that happening. Even top male stars didn't get a piece of the show profits back then.

Suzanne was a greedy 🐷

They are right about her being sunshine-y and nonthreatening in this short documentary.

That wispy, contrived, little girl voice kind of sunk her, long term, though.

There's a threes company tv movie that came out back in the early 2000s about the goings on behind the scenes of the show. I was in high school when that movie came out. It was pretty interesting how everything played out.

I'm a kid who grew up in the 90s watching Nick at nite. That's how I learned about all of these old tv shows like I love Lucy, the Brady bunch, and threes company etc.

So that's why I had an interest in the tv movie that came out on all of the behind the scenes drama of the sitcom.

Her pin-up adorned the bedroom walls of hetero teen guys everywhere

[quote]Popular with who, though? The bowling alley crowd?

Were you even around in the 70s? Do you understand how incredibly popular she was with everyone, not just people you like to look down your nose upon?

Some people have no concept of history. They think they know everything when they know shit!

She was luminous

[quote]She was luminous

She was a skinny whore who got jacked up on drugs.

Now that's the truth, to face and deal with, if you want to survive.

Thank you Quasimodo @R198

Look, the bottom line is she was no Julie Rogers.

Suzanne Somers was such a moron to ask for 10% of Three's Company. No actor got 10% of a show back then.

R155, I bet that happens to gay men at age 30! .. Plus this is why you focus on the inside and feel completely free. We all had our fun in the sun let the youngsters. Plus we have fun at any age, especially middle

Being too thin ages you. Plus it’s not attractive

What r155 said is true, after 50 it's all over no matter how cute you are or how much work you get done. You just look OLDER no matter what.

And that goes for men as well as women. Look at Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, for example. They still look good, of course, but they also look like two men in their 50s. Even with their natural good looks and all the work they've had done, it they stood next to a 30 year-old they'd look like a couple of peepaws.

r150, ash blonde?

ff was stunning in her prime, not my type but a true super-star

So many jealous queens.

Is this sarcasm? As a Millennial, I don't even know who that is, so I can't tell. I [italic]can[/italic] tell that OP's vídeo doesn't support his words, at all.

Women who are sex symbols or pander to men often make bad decisions that lead to their demise like Marilyn Monroe and Farrah Fawcett.

ff kept her hair big and full 1 as her signature, 2 to hide her face/eyes from rubberneckers

Don't forget me!

What was it about her famous bathing suit poster that had teen boys so crazy? I look at it and see a beautiful woman but there would be no there there even if I were straight,

erect nipples, sunny smile, blonde hair, blue eyes

Nipples.

R210 Mamie is a hoot. She photoshops her pictures on her FB page to make herself look 20 years younger. Guess it’s cheaper than plastic surgery.

Sure, Farrah got better as the years went on.

But she shined in great material; a true great actress can spin shit into gold.

Kate was nominated for Best Actress at the Emmys 2x for those Charlie's Angels episodes (though the writing in season one was much better)

Farrah's movie Somebody Killed Her Husband was dubbed Somebody Killed her Career

[quote]r212 ...erect nipples, sunny smile, blonde hair, blue eyes.

I think they were more accurately a grayish green - but no matter. They're just pools of muck, now.

In the mid 70’s, my mom went to Jose Eber -the guy who was responsible for Farrah’s signature look- and he gave her the same damn style he gave Farrah. Now mind you, my mom has silky flat Chinese hair, but with hot rolliers, a hair dryer and lots of hairspray, she achieved the same voluminous look. It took an hour though.

This is the million-selling poster. I still have mine, it's rolled up in the back of my closet somewhere.

I have the Jon-Erik Hexum poster.

Farrah's poster sold 12 million copies, the biggest of all time. In the article they call it the last pin-up poster, which can't be true. Farrah was the last iconic pin up, and obviously so much more.

The person who commented on her bad plastic surgery nailed, I think. Ryan hit her in the face, and they tried to fix the damage. That does explain what happened to her face. She was not a great beauty, but she could be a solid actress.

r211 Male heterosexuality is right up there with female bisexuality as the most performative of sexual orientations. A lot of these kids were only acting excited to show off their "masculinity".

This is what she looked liked. Such an overated “sex symbol”

R222 sure doesn't sound like a millenial. X 2 is more like it.

So what drugs did she do?

r224 Born in '87. Do the math.

r131 she had great makeup and hair there. LOL at that interviewer, who is that?

I definitely remember the Farrah poster, and what a sensation it was. But by the time I was old enough to appreciate her (1984), Samantha Fox had become the biggest selling model for posters and the innocence was gone.

Why are the huge asses so popular now? I loved the athletic slim look with regular sized boobs.

Me too, R229.

r229 I think this is due to the ascension of African-Americans in pop culture.

(Now I'm going to be called a racista, I guess, but I don't mean that pejoratively. I like big asses - on men, at least.)

R231 sir mix alot changed the world? Lol

THAT R227, is Canada's answer to Barbara Walters and Larry King. Brian Linehan. He really did interview everyone. Famous for his research and asskissing, he was a favorite of the ladies. Ha, I mean Barbra, Shirley MacLaine, Joan Rivers, Joan Collins, Ann-Margret. Believe it or not, most of these old interviews are a bit before my time, but he was very good friends with Joan Rivers who had him move into her NYC palace when his lover of 30 years committed suicide. Joan spoke at his memorial here in Toronto and was hysterical and very sweet too. I was part of the entertainment...

Many of his interviews are on Youtube. Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen, Eddie Murphy, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee, Howard Stern, River Phoenix, Courtney Love, Bette Midler. There wasn't anyone Brian didn't get to talk to. He didn't make celebs cry but he was well known for making them very comfortable with his impeccable research and accurate gossip. Brian Linehan was smart, self-invented, irreverent, arrogant, bitchy, gracious, kind and quite witty. Funny looking. You were allowed to be that GAY on TV in Canada, even 40 years ago. Martin Short had a character on SCTV that parodied him almost too well, called Brock.

Farrah is very soft and pretty indeed in that interview and if not brainy, she was insightful about herself and her career. A bit dull but very sweet. And as everyone says - she was gorgeous.

Jay Bernstein had some interesting accounts of FF and also Suzanne Somers.

If anyone has any info about him please post. For some reason I always thought he was gay but he maintains he was 100% straight.

It's interesting that her only hit movie was made when she was an unknown starlet in a tiny role. People liked her for free on TV, but didn't want to shell out actual money to see her in theaters.

All her starring vehicles bombed.

Critics called it “Somebody Killed Her Career”.

Some actors are just meant for the small screen. That's far less of a problem these days, when most of the interesting storytelling is happening on prestige television, and except for Oscar bait dramas the movie theater have been taken over by genre spectacles that can play overseas. But in the 70s, being labeled just a TV actor was an insult. Most actors who hit it big in TV tried to escape the format as soon as possible, with mixed results.

I'd rather be a movie star any day over being a tv star.

The movie star life is just more fascinating. And you accumulate a whole lot more $$$$$ a lot faster as you move up the ladder of cinematic stardom.

Movie stardom is more international than tv. That international appeal is better. Your more of a giant in that position.

How the heck did Kirk outlive Farrah?

[quote]r238 The movie star life is just more fascinating. And you accumulate a whole lot more $$$$$ a lot faster as you move up the ladder of cinematic stardom.

But there's a lot fewer jobs, and therefor greater competition for them.

FF was misguided in thinking her ability would carry a film, whereas with TV the standards are lower. People just don't expect as much.

[quote]She was good in “Between Two Women” as a woman who becomes caretaker to her cunty mother-in-law played by Colleen Dewhurst. I think Dewhurst won an Emmy.

Thank you, R146... excellent film, excellent acting (by BOTH leads, and yes, Dewhurst took home the Emmy)... here's a link to the entire movie:

You can make bank in TV if you score a hit series on a major network, and it's payout over a longer period of time. You're free to do films in the summer and make even more money that way.

I've heard that actresses in their 30s, especially those with kids, pray for a hit sitcom role. The hours are easy and the longer the show goes on, the more you get paid.

Farrah had a look that I don't think I've seen anywhere else in the world other than the U.S. It's not just that her style and behavior was "all-American" but also her facial bone structure.

I wouldn't be surprised if she had some native in her ancestry somewhere down the line which would account for the uniqueness of the look.

If someone can point out a European woman with this kind of American "pop" I'd be very surprised.

Well that sort of is it, right R243? Her beauty was somehow particularly American. People usually just mean a california blonde when they say that, but Farrah had an unusual combination of features that made her different from Cheryl Tiegs or Cheryl Ladd. (YuK)

Her face was angular and her eyes were a beautiful colour - but almost masculine, like Charlotte Rampling. Her jaw was strong and her nose was a bit hooked. Her upper lip was thin and her mouth turned down, yet her full on smile was very natural, feminine and transformational to her face. She had lovely pink undertones to her skin, but she tanned easily and dark. Her body was athletic and lean with small beautiful breasts, toned arms and legs. But there was nothing boyish about her. She could play a female superhero today, but that was already all over TV back then. Who knew it would make someone as dull as Amber Heard or Brie Larson so many millions one day. Farrah looked like the hottest woman tennis player on the pro circuit.

American, but not ALL american. She was beautiful, very. It IS in the eye of the beholder. Comparing Farrah to classic beauties like Grace Kelly or Vivien Leigh won't get her close. But neither was her beauty as dull and obvious as Sharon Tate or Cybill Shepherd. Farrah combined both ancestral and beachy glow. And then there was the intangible energy behind her looks - so determined, sweet and vibrant.

I saw her onstage in Extremeties as a teenager and thought she was very good. It was an extremely exciting play. The movie didn't quite capture how suspenseful it could be. I still wish she had got the Oscar nomination they tried to get her for it.

Wasn't she also well received in The Apostle with Robert Duvall? I think there was Oscar buzz for that or for that Richard Gere movie Dr. T and the Women. I can remember Gene Siskel saying she was quite good playing crazy but you didn't know if she was acting (I think this was right after the Letterman thing.)

Fearless.

ff did have native american ancestry, she said it was on her father's side

Farrah's father outlived both of his daughters.

thanks r246. that guy had a really odd take on the film.

Why'd Kate Jackson agree to do Charlie's Angels? Wasn't she more respected at that point than to do a show like that?

R120 That color hair was termed "frosted"

Charlie's Angels was originally a TV movie but it was such a huge hit that the network ordered a series immediately.

The same thing happened with Wonder Woman at the same time.

Doesn't anyone have gossip about FF relationship with Aaron Spelling? He's the one who pushed super petite, thin, tiny women into the spotlight. He once approached an actress I knew, offering her a deal. She turned him down.

Farrah wasn't tiny or too thin. She was a healthy athletic young woman. She didn't like herself in a bikini on CA, because she thought she wasn't curvy enough. Not because she thought she was too big. The late seventies men and women had the best bodies in my opinion. Not overly ripped, but lean, toned and sexy. They worked out but their body development was more from actual sports, some aerobics & old fashioned isometrics. They didn't have custom designed gym bodies. See Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. Or Farrah - who played tennis daily. Beautiful people who showed off their best features. They weren't obsessed with altering what they didn't have. Sexy.

Farrah would probably done much better under the old studio system. Small parts as she learned. She ended up a decent actress.

here is a great vanity fair article about Farrah, what's his face and the whole ordeal. if ANYONE can tell me what that green thing is by the crucifix by ryan laying on her bed is I will never invite you to a pot luck and ask you to bring food. when i had the original issue i went nuts trying to figure out what the hell it was.... thanks!

enjoy.

ps: i miss the old graydon carter VF SO much

That looks like a strand of large green beads. I thought at first they were grapes, but I think they're....rosary beads or something like that?

Why does Ryan have is shirt off? He doesn't have Howard Bannister's body anymore. (BTW I always though Ryan was way too tan in that film. Howard was not exactly a beach guy.)

RETHUG!

Fuck her in her cancerous ass!

R259 WTF??? Rethuglicans are the political enforcement thugs used as tools by wealthy individuals associated with big business

how long does it take you to get that stick up your ass every morning????

Lee was said to have egged her on to leave CA - probably knowing it would have her blackballed and her career stalled.

Farrah was just magic on CA - she was in the joke, knowing what the show was and her appeal and she played it to a T.

that vf piece exposed o'neill as an unrepentant and complete asshole, greedy too, a predatory type.

his son with ff is doing hard time, most of his kids are fucked up.

from the Vanity Fair piece:

The show was supposed to make a star of Kate Jackson, but it was Fawcett whose career took off. “I had never seen anyone have an impact like Farrah did,”

So was Jackson mad?

In the interview upthread, Farrah says that she and her Charlie's Angels co stars got along but never once socialized outside of work. They were not friends. They must have been like the Desperate Housewives of 1975! They had an instant huge hit, but not all were equally popular. Bound to be jealousies. Farrah and Jaclyn Smith became close much later in life. I don't think Kate Jackson likes anybody does she?

Alana Stewart was a good friend to the end.

O’Neal looks exhausted; the crisis has filled him with regrets about their past. What would he do over, if he could? “Most of it,” he says softly. “I wish I could do it over with her. I would have been much kinder, more understanding, more mature. I’d lose some of the savagery. I don’t know how she got cancer; maybe some of it was me. She wouldn’t even have a diet soda!”

r266; thats called acting, he is a shit

What got me was how he buried his fault for her cancer deep within that paragraph

He completely destroyed her, and I'm 100% unconvinced that he gives a fuck. He's a piece of shit.

[quote]She didn't like herself in a bikini on CA, because she thought she wasn't curvy enough.

Bitch, why do you think they hired ME?

Kate Jackson is a reclusive hoarder now. Batshit crazy.

Ryan O'Neal exploited her until her last day, and long after. But no matter how much fake crying or rewriting of history he did, or how he cut her off from her actual boyfriend, while he and Alana took control of dying Farrah for profit - how greedy for her money and to cast himself in the role of hero he was, A PIG who tried to marry her when she was no longer capable of sitting up - Farrah remained unexploitable. She had sweet dignity and great courage and most of her wits about her doing that gruesome documentary. The world was in for a shock, and the shock was though she was surely dying and surrounded by sketchy ghouls, Farrah had grown to be a formidable woman who was so strong and loving, worthy of anyone's respect. Beauty is an accident and it will surely leave you. Farrah had much more than that to offer this world. She wasn't made of sugarwater and selfishness.

Believe in his great loss, but never believe a word Ryan O'Neal says.

Wow, R272. That was lovely.

Thanks [R72]. Very true. O’Neal is beyond repulsive. Do you know where I can find that documentary? I can’t find it to stream, rent. Nada.

WTF did Farrah ever see in Ryan O'Neal? He was already an asshole when they met.

She fell in love with a man with the face of an Angel but the heart of the Devil.

[quote]r272 Ryan O'Neal exploited her until her last day, and long after.

Well, they had some things in common. I met someone who worked for them as their "archivist" - and I thought that sounded so interesting. I imagined them investing in rare artwork and historic relics, or something classy like that. She said, "Well, it's mostly archiving stuff about [italic]them."[/italic]

So they had a full time employee whose job it was just to collect and file press clippings, etc.

WHY? How completely self-involved. ("I simply must document that Page Six piece where I shared my Chicken Marengo recipe in 1999...!")

Many celebrities archive stuff about them for the biographies they expect to be written.

I don't think there has been a serious look at either of them.

R274: They have never released the documentary. I tried to find it for years. I did watch it on TV when it was on, 2, 3? nights in a row I think. Wish I would have taped it now..... I have had it marked to alert me to it's release on Amazon for years and NADA.

I am shocked actually since o'neal and stewart, perhaps, i don't know about ownership, would make a crap load of money if it was released..... maybe. i don't know. i wish i could see it again.....horribly sad.

also, R257: Thanks for tying!! It to this day makes me crazy....wtf is that??!! Guess we will never know.

Hey Guys, I did another search and Amazon still doesn't have the doc but this is a website you can watch it at.....so here is the link.

!!!!!

OK, SORRY..... links do not work. should have checked 1st. shit.

Thanks [R279] and [281]. I agree it’s strange the doc was never released. Even after 10 years people are still interested and they could make $$$. O’Neal would be all over that. Someone/something is holding it up.

angelica huston dated o'neal who physically assaulted her at least once

O'Neal is a complete turd, as others have said. Tatum O'Neal said that he tried to hit on her at Farrah Fawcett's funeral. I don't know why, but according to her he didn't recognise her immediately. They had been estranged for some time and perhaps he was high, drunk, who knows? He attempted to sleaze onto her and she had to say, "Dad, it's me!" Yes, the great love of his life was being buried and he was working the room for some tail. Nice!

Alana Hamilton is a loser Repub, living off the generosity of her exes George and Rod (and they aren't even all that generous- she shops at the Flower Mart). Her claim to fame is her Farrah charity and dropping out a of couple crotch fruit.

The doctor who treated farrah in Germany said she thought the treatments failed because Farrah always jumped on a plane right after, to get back to Ryan.

Relentless bone structure, toothy smile and she clearly worked out before it was really fashionable. And her titties were the real deal. Just look at that poster that was so famous - I'm sure that there was some airbrushing, but her body was the real deal too. So lean and shapely. And no one other than her could get away with that hair...every woman I knew who attempted to get the Farrah hair always ended up looking like a hair fail. Like when Jennifer Aniston got that Rachel cut. Few people pull it off.

Back OT, Farrah was simply lovely. She was on a lot of TV shows and commercials in the late 60s-early 70s before she really hit it big and she was so fine looking.

Charlies Angels was before my time. But I always thought Alana Stewart was a famous actress and I also thought she was on CA. But then I looked her up, and nothing.

I guess her claim to fame really is being a star fucker. In the literal sense. She has a nice house though. Not sure how she affords it, but she's definitely living well.

I ready posted, Alana gets money from her exes and lives on the cheap. Her house isn't much either,

Farrah lived a very healthy lifestyle and still ended up dying from cancer at 62. So sad.

One of the things the documentary was criticized for was exploiting Farrah's painful ordeal while offering no enlightenment about her cancer and her questionable choices regarding treatment. Anal Cancer is caused by HPV virus and there is both preventive and screening measures for it.

Farrah was advised to have a colostomy when they found her first tumor, described as the size of a peanut, and she refused that treatment. It's understandable for anyone let alone an actress, but it might have saved her life. Instead she chose radiation and chemo. She thought she had it beat but it metastasized and came roaring back in her liver and other places. There are heartbreaking scenes in the documentary of her being informed of new cancer several times. The treatments she underwent in Germany were unbelievably painful, involving long needles being inserted through her abdomen to chemically attack the many tumors in her liver. It's grueling to watch, she was very brave in her treatment and outlook. She got some reprieves and hopeful news, not to last. She was willful and foolish in some ways. Who are we to judge? She did give up on treatment near the end of her life. When Ryan was telling Barbara Walters he still planned to marry Farrah. Her son comes in leg shackles to crawl in bed with her when she's barely conscious anymore. It's too much and quite exploitive, though no fault of Farrah.

I've lost my way a bit with this post. We've all known people who've suffered and lost and it's best not to remember all the worst details. It's hard to watch on television, especially when you get the feeling that the patient is being used by the ones she trusts most. A release of the documentary would surely make someone money. Better to sell the Warhol I guess. RIP Farrah.

Farrah a healthy lifestyle?

Sad. He's a terrible man.

This is really apropos of nothing, but I'm glad that Barbara Walters isn't on tv anymore. Every time there was some big thing involving a celebrity or other public figure, Barbara Walters had to be on tv doing the interview. I don't miss her at all.

Ryan is the personification of Narcissistic personality disorder. He has zero empathy and when he cries, you never see a tear. Phony bastard. Ryan pings to me a bit.

Let’s not make Ryan both psychotic and gay.