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- Ann Margaret, the original redhead bombshell wearin' the green for St. Patrick's Day, 1960s
- Beautiful actress Olivia Hussey, 1974
- Johnny Cash & June Carter
- Sen. Edward Kennedy and his wife march in Holyoke St. Patrick's Day parade in 1960s
- The Price Is Right host Bob Barker with Janice Pennington and Anitra Ford, 1972
Later in life, Patty Duke was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and has worked as a mental health advocate. Photographer Alec Byrne captured this photograph of the first meeting between Jimi Hendrix and Mick Jagger. The two rock legends met for the first time at the Top of the Pops Studio in London in May of 1967. Byrne later noted that saw Mick Jagger standing off to the side behind a curtain, watching Hendrix perform. Jagger later said he was “checking out the competition”. Byrne asked if he could get a photo of Jagger with Hendrix and was able to snap just one photo of their first meeting.
Next, the studio tapped Rock Hudson for the role, but the film’s producer, Alan J. Pakula, didn’t think Hudson was a big enough star. He never received any formal musical or acting training, although he did study tap dancing under Bill ‘Bojangles” Robinson, yet he was an accomplished singer, dancer, comedian, mime, and musician. As we see in this photo of one of Davis’s appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, he excelled on the drums. He also played the piano, trumpet, and the vibraphone. An all-around gifted performer, Davis’s popularity helped other black entertainers break into the largely segregated entertainment industry in the 1950s and 1960s. Folk singer Joan Baez’s music was symbolic of the 1960s counterculture movement.
Ann Margaret, the original redhead bombshell wearin' the green for St. Patrick's Day, 1960s
Much like A League of their Own, the washed up alcoholic coach rediscovers his love of the game and cleans up his act. The French Connection earned eight Academy Award nominations and won five of the categories, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were comedy magic when they were together. They partnered for 16 movies together, including Sailor Beware, which was their fifth movie collaboration.
She was a true hippie chick who blended rock, gospel, and country influences into the folk genre. In addition to recording her own songs, she sang covers of songs by other artists including, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, the Beatles, the Allman Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, and more. In fact, she in the early 1960s, she was one of the first singers to cover Bob Dylan’s songs. It was instrumental in bringing Dylan’s early songwriting into the international spotlight. Cybill Shepherd had already made a name for herself as a top fashion model in the late 1960s and early 1970s when she decided to switch geared and try acting.
Beautiful actress Olivia Hussey, 1974
Shortly afterward, she posed semi-nude for Playboy magazine in a series call ‘The Girls of Casino Royale’. By the mid-1970s, Bouchet was frustrated with her career. She was a victim of typecasting and was unable to land starring roles in serious films. Tough guy actor Jack Palance, who had already enjoyed a long and successful career in films and on television, was tapped to host a documentary-style television series, “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
He was on hand for the filming to provide moral support for Elvis, and apparently needed a trim. In Loving You, Elvis performed his song “ Teddy Bear”, a single that went platinum. First of all, the Woodstock Music Festival was actually held in Bristol, New York, about fifty miles from Woodstock. In 1966, three years before the Woodstock Festival, Bob Dylan was involved in a serious motorcycle accident that nearly cost him his life.
Johnny Cash & June Carter
With her toned body, impossibly tiny waist, and stunning good looks, it is no wonder that beautiful Betty Brosmer was one of the most prolific modes of the 1950s. She was always athletic and enjoyed fitness, which helped her to maintain her figure. That gig helped her catch the eye of pin-up photographers, Alberto Vargas and Earl Moran. She was just 15 years old when she moved to New York City in 1950 to work as a full-time model. Although she was only 15, the make-up, clothing, hairstyles, and poses she did as a pin-up model made her look ten years old.
Her father, Riccardo Scicolone, refused to marry her mother when she became pregnant, forcing her to find her own means of financial support. In fact, Romilda became pregnant by him again and gave birth to Maria when Sophia was just four years old. Scicolone wouldn’t acknowledge that Maria was his child.
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She was just eight years old when her parents turned over her care to her talent managers, John and Ethel Ross. They took a large percent of her earnings, lied on her resume, and tried to pass her off as being younger than she truly was. Even worse, she was given alcohol and prescription drugs to keep her complacent and subjected her to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.
He immersed himself in the soccer scene and hung around professional soccer players. In 1970, he hired former Jamaican footballer Allan ‘Skill’ Cole to be his tour manager. Fast Times at Ridgemont High was sandwiched in between two other films in which Penn tackled more serious roles. One was the 1981 Taps in which he played a military cadet. The other was the 1983 drama, Bad Boys, which cast Penn as a troubled youth.
Her big break came when beautiful blonde Farrah Fawcett stepped down from her role as Jill on the mega-hit TV series Charlie’s Angels. The shows creators wanted to smoothly bring in another character, so they cast Cheryl Ladd to play Kris, Jill’s younger sister. Ladd remained in the role through the duration of the show. In many cases, folks claim that this pic shows Elvis Presley giving Johnny Cash a trim, but that’s not accurate. This photo was snapped in 1957 on the set of Loving You, Elvis’s first major movie role. But it is not Johnny Cash, it is Elvis’s cousin, Gene Smith.
He moved to Woodstock, a hippie mecca in the Catskill Mountains to recover. He was geographically close to the mega-festival but opted not to perform. The great boxer Muhammad Ali was still using his given name, Cassius Clay when, in 1961 at the age of 19 years old, he posed for some unusual photographs in a Miami swimming pool. Photographer Flip Schulke initially hoped to sell the photos to Sports Illustrated but his idea of a boxer underwater didn’t hold water with the Sports Illustrated editors.
These people – all icons of the groovy era – have left their imprint on the era. Even though Paul Newman and Lee Marvin played friends in the 1972 Western buddy film, Pocket Money, the rumor is that the two did not get along during the filming of the comedy. Film critic Gene Siskel described the performances of Newman and Marvin as “completely self-indulgent” and gave the movie zero stars. Another critic wrote that Newman and Marvin “shined individually” but that their interactions together failed to convince the audience that they were best buds, as their characters were supposed to be.
The Price Is Right host Bob Barker with Janice Pennington and Anitra Ford, 1972
A soprano, Michelle’s clear voice helped to boost the popularity of their songs, including “California Dreamin’”. John and Michelle are the parents of singer Chynna Phillips. This photo shows 20-year-old Sheryl Crow before she became a famous singer. After high school, she attended the University of Missouri where she majored in music education. She took a job as a music teacher after she earned her degree but spent her weekends singing in bands.
