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The Story Behind Farrah Fawcett's Iconic 1976 Swimsuit Poster
Biography ^ | 7/14/20 | Sara Kettler

Posted on 07/31/2023 6:02:26 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Wearing her own red one-piece, the 'Charlie's Angels' star posed for the now-famous image in her Los Angeles backyard.

For Farrah Fawcett, 1976 was a big year. Besides achieving breakout success on the small screen as one of Charlie's Angels, that was the year her iconic swimsuit poster was released. This pinup poster, which showcased Fawcett's wholesome beauty and sex appeal, would be prominently placed on millions of bedroom and dorm room walls across the United States and around the world. Explored in the special Biography: Farrah Fawcett Forever, it also became a defining feature of the 1970s and is considered to be the best-selling poster of all time (a record that's unlikely to be broken now that the internet's around). Here's a look at how this famous swimsuit photo came to be, and how involved Fawcett was in its creation.

(Excerpt) Read more at biography.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: 1970s; farrahfawcett
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To: DallasBiff

I was attracted to Addrienne Barbeau, and her, um, assets, until I realized she was well over a FOOT shorter than me.

It was never going to work out. I had to let her go.

Farrah was closer to 5’7” ... Workable, but a younger-looking “older woman.”

Cheryl is 8 years older, same as Farrah. And while most def in the top 10, that wasn’t going to work either.


21 posted on 07/31/2023 6:21:55 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: silent majority rising

She creamed Joe Namath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ClijtnPkfU


22 posted on 07/31/2023 6:22:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff
Oh, COME ON:

No pic, REALLY????


23 posted on 07/31/2023 6:22:11 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: grobdriver
The same poster was on the wall in my senior high school physics classroom - with her measurements in metric. Try that now!

Yep, 50 years of decline IMHO. In between we got Reagan and Trump that slowed the decline, but the decline continues.

24 posted on 07/31/2023 6:22:18 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: logi_cal869
Beat me to it. In a college marketing class we looked into subliminal advertising and this was one of the pics we used. Along the bottom of her hair "sex" is spelled out. Or so it seams.


25 posted on 07/31/2023 6:28:25 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: 1Old Pro

For my rich girlfriend I go rid of the bedroom ceiling mirror and installed a stock market ticker.


26 posted on 07/31/2023 6:30:23 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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To: Bounced2X
In a college marketing class we looked into subliminal advertising and this was one of the pics we used. Along the bottom of her hair "sex" is spelled out. Or so it seams.

So subliminal that nobody even saw it. You sure that wasn't a field ecology class investigating mushrooms?

27 posted on 07/31/2023 6:31:25 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: EEGator

“At least men were men, and women were women.”

We still are but neither manliness nor ladiness fit the woke model.


28 posted on 07/31/2023 6:33:35 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: ShadowAce

29 posted on 07/31/2023 6:35:34 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: teeman8r

I had one in my mortar platoon FDC track when I was in Germany in 1977.


30 posted on 07/31/2023 6:36:47 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Annie Savoy : The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness. )
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To: Bounced2X

“”””subliminal advertising””””

Loved the topic, read some of the books like ‘Subliminal Seduction’ but was never sure what, or how much to make of it.


31 posted on 07/31/2023 6:37:29 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Bounced2X

Did you study Wilson Bryan Key’s Clam Plate Orgy?

I met him when he came to speak to my Advertising class in college.


32 posted on 07/31/2023 6:37:55 AM PDT by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: Vermont Lt
Nastasia! Yes!

33 posted on 07/31/2023 6:38:38 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: 1Old Pro
So subliminal that nobody even saw it. You sure that wasn't a field ecology class investigating mushrooms?

Investigating mushrooms, plus other things, was a weekend seminar at a different professors off campus "classroom". ;O)



34 posted on 07/31/2023 6:39:10 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: DallasBiff

The most beautiful woman on TV in the 70s was Jan Smithers.


35 posted on 07/31/2023 6:39:19 AM PDT by wny
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To: Bounced2X
In psychology, that's referred to as "motivated perception".

LOL


36 posted on 07/31/2023 6:41:32 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: DallasBiff

Not to mention Lynda Carter - reclining in that red dress…


37 posted on 07/31/2023 6:49:55 AM PDT by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: ansel12; Bartholomew Roberts
Loved the topic, read some of the books like ‘Subliminal Seduction’ / Did you study Wilson Bryan Key’s Clam Plate Orgy?

Had to look up Wilson Bryan Key. Don't recall him ever being mentioned. We looked at a lot of pics. I brought in a copy of Billboard magazine with an add for the Ramones "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" to see if we could find anything in that. Don't recall that we did.


38 posted on 07/31/2023 6:51:25 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: outofsalt
Nastasia! Yes!

Something Biblical about that pic. ;)

39 posted on 07/31/2023 6:56:44 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: EEGator

LOL. We were kids. My parents would NEVER have allowed such a poster into our house.

But my friend Bobby down the street had that poster on his bedroom wall. His mother would passive-aggressively gripe about it, but wouldn’t/couldn’t make him take it down - and I would admire it every time I was at his house.


40 posted on 07/31/2023 7:00:11 AM PDT by PGR88
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