She was also a comedy nerd, exposed at an early age to Saturday Night Live, Monty Python and the classics (Marx Brothers, The Honeymooners). A little 10-year-old kid with a contagious smile who looked eerily like a young Christopher Knight, TV's Peter Brady? 3 days of peace, love and music that defined the whole generation. He snapped about 50 images and later said, They were some of the best pictures I have ever taken.. When Elvis graciously donated his yacht, the Potomac, which was once Franklin Roosevelts presidential yacht, to St. Jude Childrens Hospital, it was not like the King of Rock n Roll was giving up his most precious possession. A group of people step over a torn-down fence in order to enter the Woodstock grounds in August 1969. Attendees mill about the grounds of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair. He married for the first and only time a Hollywood rarity his wife, dental hygienist Marilou York, on December 17, 1978. Barbara Eden played a genie named Jeannie on the sitcom I Dream of Jeannieand you have to wonder -- how did they get away with this? This cursed and horrifying selection of images is anything but boring, and leaves out any mention of current events. Great Scott, we have to go back. Well, we've got the gallery for you. Photos of Woodstock 1969, on Its 50th Anniversary Alan Taylor August 14, 2019 32 Photos In Focus Fifty years ago, more than 400,000 people descended on Bethel, New York, headed to a dairy. #, A view from the back of the stage as the rock group Country Joe and the Fish perform in the rain on August 17, 1969. Fans flocked to Long Beach, California, on February 14, 1964, to watch as Elvis handed over the yacht to the childrens charity. On that fateful day, Dean was driving his 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder west on route 466 near Cholame, California, when he suffered a head-on collision with an eastbound vehicle; he was taken by ambulance to the Paso Robles War Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. In fact, he was the lead singer for the band for the duration of its run, from 1968 to 1980. Surfing, a long-time activity in the Hawaiian Islands, was first introduced in California by three Hawaiian princes in 1885, but the sport took a long time to catch on. Aykroyd and Belushi were cast members and the act had a comedic edge -- but at the same time, both were fans of blues and soul music and actually took the band seriously. Woodstock Photo Gallery. Loretta Lynn is the all-time most successful female recording artist in country music, with 24 chart-topping singles and 11 number-one albums to her name. (Elly May, for her part, wasn't so interested in being Jane.). Next, the studio tapped Rock Hudson for the role, but the films producer, Alan J. Pakula, didnt think Hudson was a big enough star. They partnered for 16 movies together, including Sailor Beware, which was their fifth movie collaboration. But everyone starts out young, don't they? Ann-Margret's raring to go (in The Prophet, 1968). In fact, the movie was written expressly for her and was meant to showcase her modern ballet style of dance. Fans loved him for his flamboyant personality and masterful driving. The controlled chaos of Fawcett's hair was on full display in her 1976 photo shoot with Bruce McBroom, which yielded the iconic red-swimsuit image that would adorn teenage boys' rooms all over the country for years to come. Though she only did the job for four years, Jungle Pam remains the most iconic backup girl in drag racing history. They thought the physical activity would help strengthen her muscles and prevent lingering mobility issues. National Lampoons Animal House was filmed on location at the University of Oregon in 1978, but it was almost a miracle that it happened. In this photo, the brothers are sitting on the hood of their car, the Bluesmobile, a 1974 Dodge Monaco that is also (as the story goes) a decommissioned Mount Prospect police car. But there's no debate about the hair. In fact, both movies were directed by George Roy Hill. But Life magazine was interested in the photos. 69 Woodstock Photos That Will Take You To The 1960s' Most Iconic Music Festival By Alec | Edited By Marco Margaritoff Published September 28, 2021 Updated November 17, 2021 From Jimi Hendrix and Jerry Garcia to the 400,000 hippies in attendance, these pictures from Woodstock 1969 capture the free spirit of this historic event. But some people, like the woman in this photograph for the 1950s, got a head start on that rebellion. From the looks of this photo and from his stoned-out surfer character in the 1982 teen sex movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High, you might get the impression that Sean Penn was a one-dimensional actor whose only claim to fame would be popularizing the word dude. Matt Damon was just 15 years old in this photo, taken in 1979 as a publicity pic for the movie Over the Edge. Well, it's supposed to be the Von Steuben Day parade, a celebration of German-American culture. The Beverly Hillbillies, the sitcom about a family of country folk who strike it rich, ran for 9 seasons on CBS. 20. She was living alone in the big city! She was always athletic and enjoyed fitness, which helped her to maintain her figure. Did you know that Anitra Ford and Janice Pennington were the original models on the TV game show, The Price Is Right when it made its debut on September 4, 1972? The song remains the one time that the band enlisted a guest vocalist in the studio, and the resulting piece, boosted by Jimmy Page's mandolin playing, is without a doubt a classic. As a gimmick to boost ticket sales, he was supposed to go "missing," then show up in Texas. We will never know. She had a serious boyfriend but they were not engaged to be married! The young lady died, and Kennedy failed to report the accident. The boxer was known to train in the water, using the resistance of the water to strengthen his punches, however Ali didnt go underwater. The stylish juvenile delinquents in this shot are Cameron Frye (Alan Ruck), Sloane Peterson (Mia Sara) and Ferris himself (Matthew Broderick). Other acts that were probably too hip to be there but played nevertheless, included the Moody Blues, Joe Cocker, Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. In fact, the last time they performed together -- at London's Hyde Park, in July 2017, just a few months before his death -- Petty welcomed her to the stage by saying, "over the years, we've become very close and she is the honorary girl in our bandStevie!". She was just 15 years old when she moved to New York City in 1950 to work as a full-time model. Nowadays you can still go to the Woodstock music festival, but if you hear the name you're immediately taken back to the one that took place in 1969. Andre died of heart failure in a Paris hotel room in 1993, at the age of 46. She went on to play Juliet in a 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet. Janet, who was about 6 years old in this shot, would find more success as an actress in the '70s and early '80s, not emerging as a major pop star until 1986 with her third solo album, Control. Both women started as fashion models and were best friends prior to joining The Price Is Right. The musician Richie Havens performs onstage at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair on August 15, 1969. Bruce Lee always had star potential but early in his career, it was much more difficult for an Asian American to land acting gigs. Cassandra Peterson totally immersed herself in the sexy, goth character she created, Elvira. Judas Priest is an institution of heavy metal music today but in 1975 they didn't exactly look likely to succeed. Tolkien, and Moroccan rhythms. The lives people live, decisions they make, and things they accomplish are all woven into the tapestry of history and tell the story of the time period. Take a look at her face and judge for yourself. #, A long-exposure photo of the huge nighttime crowd 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. It happens in life -- we mean to do well, but we end up naked in a pool with swimsuit model Christie Brinkley. He also played the piano, trumpet, and the vibraphone. It struck a curious balance with its female supporting characters: Donna Douglas played Elly May Clampett, the stereotypical pinup-style, tomboyish country girl, while Nancy Kulp played Miss Jane Hathaway, the humorless, prim-and-proper secretary to the banker Milburn Drysdale. As this photo shows, Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd, as Kelly and Kris, become undercover cheerleaders while Kate Jacksons Sabrina pretends to be a choreographer. The musical legacy of the Jackson family is well known, having begun with the massive chart success of the Jackson 5 and continuing through the solo careers of Michael and Janet. For more than two weeks, Baron had photo shoots with some of Hollywoods hottest leading ladies, including Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, and Anita Ekberg. She also became a fashion icon, setting trends with both the hairstyle (designed by Vidal Sassoon, it became known as the "Kwan bob") and the dress she wore (the cheongsam, a fitted frock noted for its high collar, short sleeves and slits up either thigh) in the film. It's all good, it's all groovy and the rest is history. Wrestler Andre the Giant stood 7 feet, 4 inches tall and weighed 520 pounds -- that's a big man. His three biggest movie roles, Rebel Without a Cause and East of Eden, both in 1955, and Giant in 1956, These roles defined him and his style of acting. No, really -- for all his buffoonery (and dads are often buffoons IRL, aren't they?) He incorporated African rhythms, hambone beats, and traditional blues elements into his music. To acknowledge her contribution to the album, Jimmy Page gave Denny her own runic symbol -- three downward-facing triangles -- as he had given himself and the other three group members. In the end, Greg does the somewhat-right thing and chooses neither of them, instead giving the top job to Pat, who is played by Rita Wilson in her first TV role. Need an actress to ride a large motorcycle in a thigh-high sweater dress and calf-high boots? They didnt know that Cyd would excel at dancing and turn it into a lucrative career. For young female viewers eyeing a career path and questioning the patriarchy, these abnormalities made the character more relatable. What the depictions of the "three days of peace and music" leave out are the huge logistical problems involved. From her days as a pop-chart powerhouse in Sonny & Cher (with husband Sonny Bono) to TV success on the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour in the '70s to her '80s movie career in such hits as Mask (1985), The Witches of Eastwick (1987) and Moonstruck (1987). In the comic books, Wonder Woman's alter ego is Diana Prince -- but to Americans who watched TV in the '70s, Wonder Woman (and, technically speaking, Diana Prince) will always be Lynda Carter. In 1969, more than 400,000 people descended on Bethel, New York, headed to a dairy farm owned by Max and Miriam Yasgur, where the Woodstock Music & Art Fair was being held. Folk singer Joan Baezs music was symbolic of the 1960s counterculture movement. Andress' character as written by Ian Fleming in the novel was slightly different -- in the book, her name is Honeychile Rider, and she wasn't wearing a bikini (or even a one-piece) when she met agent 007. Current WW actress Gal Gadot is good -- she's very good -- but she'll never dethrone Lynda Carter as the all-time iconic Wonder Woman. ". You have to wonder whether Cooper told Sanders the story of the "Chicken Incident" -- in which Cooper produced a live chicken on stage and proceeded to kill it (sources vary on the details of the execution). Ken Babbs, one of the Merry Pranksters, talks with a filmmaker at Woodstock's Free Stage. Dont let his zany facial expressions and off-the-wall lines in National Lampoons Vacation fool you into thinking Quaid is best suited for comedies. #, The Indian musicians Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha (left) perform onstage on August 15, 1969. 11K; 2.2K; Save; Comments 1.7K. Nine times. To which Dylan would have replied, "It ain't you, babe.". In fact, she in the early 1960s, she was one of the first singers to cover Bob Dylans songs. We're finally on YouTube! One of these issues was the Civil Rights movement between 1954 and 1968 throughout America. Denny holds a special place in Led Zeppelin's history -- as Plant's duet partner on "The Battle of Evermore" off Led Zeppelin IV. But the group's work before Dark Side of the Moon was more challenging -- unconventional song structures with long instrumental sections and sound experiments. 15 Child Down. Search instead in Creative? On That Girl, Marlo Thomas played Ann Marie, a character who was groundbreaking and even controversial. Catch u. Like her famous dad, Holly Palance was an actress. It was one of two hit films he was in that year (the other was Splash! When they were stopped, the police found gloves, black stocking masks, and a .38 caliber pistol in the car. On Aug. 15, 1969, more than 400,000 young people made their way to a dairy farm in the town of Bethel, New York, for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. The film itself was a cavalcade of beautiful women (two of the three female leads were Playboy Playmates), swinging sexual liberation, drug use (the "dolls" of the title was slang for depressant pills) and the vagaries of the music industry. As this photo shows, she was still learning the ins and outs of life as a royal. Kurt Cobain was a tortured soul, a grunge poet, a rock 'n roll casualty -- and in this pre-fame shot, a happy and good looking kid. Nancy Kwan is regarded as the first actress to break Hollywood's barrier against Asian performers -- while Asian men and women were often seen in supporting roles, the American movie industry was skeptical about their bankability in a leading role or as a major love interest. He played the sport whenever he could and sometimes even kicked the ball around in the recording studio. Need an actress to smother Jack Nicholson with her cleavage? It was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won seven of them, including Best Picture. National Lampoons Vacation is chock full of memorable characters, but perhaps the wackiest is Cousin Eddie, brilliantly played by Randy Quaid. This bizarre gender-bending musical (the film version of the successful stage productionThe Rocky Horror Show) went virtually unnoticed when it opened in 1975 and might have vanished, just another weird movie that flopped. He was a huge fan of the English football organization, the Tottenham Hot spurs and the teams midfielder, Ossie Ardiles, an Argentinian. Ouch! That's the funny thing about rabid fandom -- devotees of a film or show watch it endlessly, they invite its stars to conventions and they never ever forget. The songs "You Ain't Woman Enough (to Take My Man)" and "Fist City" are addressed to man-stealing women, while "Rated 'X'" and "The Pill" discuss, respectively, double standards in male-female relationships and birth control. Cher -- just Cher, since 1965. But this is not a picture of Jungle Jim -- this is "Jungle Pam" Hardy, Jim's sidekick, who commanded attention at the track with her tight, skimpy outfits. In 1975, Carter landed the role of Wonder Woman, whom she portrayed on TV through 1979. The original shoot, which took place mainly on or near the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard, was expected (or hoped) to last 55 days; in all, it went on for 159 days. Gorgeous ginger Ann-Margret starred with Elvis Presley in Viva Las Vegas in 1963, the same year that Elviss young girlfriend, Priscila, moved in with the King in his Graceland home. There is a bet that involves one of them getting a kiss from the sexy nightclub singer so the two must bumble their way through sailor life while plotting to get the coveted kiss to win the bet. This meeting of the minds from 1972 would seem to have something for everyone, then. Lady Diana Spencer was not yet Princess Diana when this photo was taken. The film was based on the 1968 Gore Vidal novel of the same name. It's controlled chaos, it's madness with a purpose. In the 1960s, while doing her Shakespearean thing, Mirren was also a budding sex symbol, flaunting her figure in such films as Age of Consent (1969), Savage Messiah (1972) and Caligula (1979). In one memorable scene, Meatloafs character spends the evening with Debbie Harry of Blondie. The one that got away. In 1998, she scored the biggest hit of her career with "Believe" and charmed a new generation of fans as a dance-pop diva and fashion icon. While Eden's ribcage and cleavage were allowed to breathe free, NBC decided her navel should always be covered. Paul Newman and Robert Redford reunited once again in 1973 for The Sting after starring together in the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were comedy magic when they were together. The cops thought they were casing the joint. #, The crowd looks toward the stage during a performance by the band Santana. You're looking at Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin and his friend Sandy Denny, formerly of the British folk band Fairport Convention. There was nothing like it. Stevie Nicks and the late Tom Petty were very good friends but never lovers. New York City, 1972: It's Mick Jagger's 29th birthday. 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