It’s impossible to think about the 1970s with our thinking of Fawcett in her red one piece, smiling out at us from her poster with that million dollar smile. Even if she never did anything after that poster, she’d still be the golden sun of one of the greatest decades of the 20th century.
Farrah Fawcett turned her sun-soaked California good looks into a career with starring roles on Charlie’s Angels and The Burning Bed, a role that one her serious acclaim. However, Fawcett left Charlie’s Angels after a single season, forever cementing herself as the star of jiggle TV that got out early and continued to reign supreme.
She was a meteoric talent, someone who took a few short years and turned that into the rest of her career. It’s a talent that so few stars have.
New York “Cabbie” — Robert De Niro’s taxicab driver’s license, 1976
Before he was the star of Taxi Driver, Robert De Niro was actually a taxi driver. He took the role after starring in Mean Streets, so it’s not like he was hurting for cash and had to take up a job, at the time, De Niro liked to go method.
De Niro says that while he was prepping for the gig he was only recognized one time, and it was by a fellow actor. According to Andrew J. Rausch, the author of The Films of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, the actor exclaimed, “Well that’s acting. One year, the Oscar [for The Godfather Part II] – the next, you’re driving a cab!”
Photo Op — Marilyn Monroe pouring her husband a drink, 1958
This shot comes from Life magazine’s pictorial, “A Night with the Millers,” that supposedly shows what it was like to live with Marilyn Monroe and her third husband, playwright Arthur Miller. Continue reading “Farrah Fawcett was the ’70s golden girl!”