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50-Year Member Nelda Barton, Howard County.
Joined by Kaye Greene, Dr. Mark Cochran, and Mary Fisher (right)
Carolyn Morris, AEHC Treasurer, presents the County Agents Foundation Scholarship. The award was accepted by Kris Elliott, NAFCS Arkansas President.
One of many home design catalogs from the post war period. Most featured smaller homes with a mixture of styles, many cape cods and ranches, but some modern styles as well.
This was the hardest building to finish. Didn't want it too tall but also wanted a lot of details inside. I know for a fact that I fudged the math on some places and that one facade might be half a plates thickness offset in some direction but I just can't be bothered
A must have for homemaker who spends a lot of time in the house!
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British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. 552a. Photo: Fox.
American actor James Dunn (1901-1967) was a versatile star on stage, screen and television. He became a star with Frank Borzage's Bad Girl (1931) with Sally Eilers. In films, he was usually the boy next door or the nice guy. In the 1950s, Dunn pursued a new direction as a character actor on television.[
James Howard Dunn was born in 1901 in New York City, New York. He was the only child of Ralph H. Dunn, a prominent New York stockbroker and Jessie L. Archer, a homemaker. He grew up and attended public schools in New Rochelle, New York. Dunn's interest in pursuing a career in acting became apparent when he started playing hooky in high school, preferring to work as an extra in various film studios scattered throughout the city. His father, Ralph, had different ideas for him and took him into his brokerage firm as a security salesman. However, Dunn continued to work as an extra or in small parts at Paramount's Astoria studios in the late 1920s. In 1927, he had a bit part in the Broadway play 'Nightstick', so he could always claim his career started on Broadway. For three years, he honed his acting skills in Englewood, New Jersey and Winnipeg, Manitoba stock companies. On Broadway, he appeared in the musical 'Sweet Adeline' (1929) with Helen Morgan. Fox offered him to make a screen test and he signed a long-term contract with the studio. At Fox, he starred in Sob Sister (Alfred Santell, 1931) with Linda Watkins. His big break came when director Frank Borzage chose him to play the young newlywed in Bad Girl (Frank Borzage, 1931) opposite Sally Eilers. He received outstanding reviews from the critics and became a star, virtually overnight. He went on to make several formula films, including Society Girl (Sidney Lanfield, 1932) with Peggy Shannon and Hello, Sister! (Erich von Stroheim, a.o., 1933) with Boots Mallory and ZaSu Pitts. In six films, he co-starred with Sally Eilers. In 1934, he helped introduce film audiences to Shirley Temple as he sang and tap danced with her in her first major picture, Stand Up and Cheer (Hamilton MacFadden, 1934). That same year, he also appeared with her in Baby, Take a Bow (Harry Lachman, 1934), Change of Heart (John G. Blystone, 1934) and Bright Eyes (David Butler, 1934).
Between 1931 and 1935, James Dunn made over 20 pictures for Fox and a few more on loan out. In 1935, Fox merged with Twentieth Century and musicals were out at the new studio. 20th Century Fox bought out Dunn's contract. His career soon began to wane as he was forced to work freelance. In Warner Bros's s The Payoff (Robert Florey, 1935) he played the nice guy newspaper columnist whose wife ruined his career. Dunn was becoming increasingly dependent on alcohol, earning him a reputation as an erratic, irresponsible performer, further diminishing his employment prospects. His decline from top box office draw to B movie actor was almost as startling as his meteoric rise to fame had been. Nevertheless, he usually managed to keep working, whether on stage, on the radio, or in low-budget poverty-row films. In 1945 Dunn was given a second chance at movie stardom when young director, Elia Kazan chose him for the role of Johnny Nolan in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Elia Kazan, 1945) starring Dorothy McGuire. His sensitive portrayal of the gentle, alcoholic father earned him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The award, however, failed to reignite his film career and he made few substantial films after that. One notable exception was Killer McCoy (Roy Rowland, 1947), starring Mickey Rooney, in which he again played the role of a ne'er-do-well, but sympathetic alcoholic father. By 1951 he was again unemployed and bankrupt. With the advent of television, new opportunities opened up for Dunn, as he appeared in scores of productions during the 1950s and 1960s. He acted in most of the classic anthology series such as G.E. Theater and Playhouse 90, and guest starred in many of the most popular series of the era, including Route 66, The Fugitive and Ben Casey. Between 1954 and 1956, he starred as the irascible Uncle Earl in the sitcom, It's a Great Life. The show also featured Frances Bavier, as his long-suffering sister, Amy Morgan. Dunn continued to work in television, almost up to the time of his death in 1967. Dunn was married three times. His first, to Edna O’Lier, ended in divorce. He was married to the actress Frances Gifford from 1938 until 1942. He married his third wife, Edna Rush in 1945, who survived him at his death in 1967 at the age of 65 from complications following stomach surgery in Santa Monica, California. He is one of the relatively few actors to have two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures and one for television.
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October Afternoon's Modern Homemaker was a featured Kit Terrific Klub issue. We used it to make four scrapbook page layouts and we also created a pretty little chipboard scrapbook with another complete kit. This book is bound with a spiral binding done with the Cinch (We R Memory Keepers)
70-Year Member Marie Price, Prairie County.
Joined by Kaye Greene, Dr. Mark Cochran, and Mary Fisher (right)
Angela Lee Tien, a homemaker from Massachusetts, competes in the semi-final round of the Sixth International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs hosted by the Van Cliburn Foundation in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, May 27, 2011. (Van Cliburn Foundation/Rodger Mallison)
GBOLOKAI - LIBERIA , MARCH 15 2007 : Homemaker - Gbolokai is a small town of a few hundred people over the main road near Totota, all of its inhabitants fled during the long brutal civil war and have slowly returned after 2005 to try and rebuild their lives. (Photos by : Christopher Herwig )
70-Year Member Beulah Wright, Saline County.
Joined by Kaye Greene, Dr. Mark Cochran, and Mary Fisher (right)
Around 100 homemakers from women community groups in South Jakarta participated in the interactive screening and informative sessions of the ILO’s ‘We Have the Same Right’ Campaign, aimed to promote decent work for domestic workers. This interactive session was organized by the ILO in collaboration with Etnikom, a leading community organization in South Jakarta, on 15 March 2018.
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Known as the "Electri-Living Home," this was a model for the public to come and see a flame-less Home of Tomorrow. The publication, Living for Young Homemakers, featured the model home in 1957. It was open for public inspection under the sponsorship of Sacramento Municipal Utility District. The home is located at 3421 Lynne Way in Sacramento.
The all-electric model home is light conditioned as well as air conditioned. The house features the latest innovations in electrical equipment including: cooking appliances, water heating, and automatic clothes washing and drying. The home's heating is done electrically with a heat pump, which replaces both the usual furnace and the conventional air conditioner. The machine reverses itself automatically to pump heat either into or out of the houses, as needed, to maintain indoor temperature at comfort levels.
Other features include a switch in the master bedroom with controls a circle of lighting outside the home. Indirect daylighting is used in the living room and three-way switches provide a path of light from the carport to entry hall.
Construction of the home was completed by Joseph L. Binet.
Photo by Ernest Braun.
c.1960
The Suzy Homemaker Dishwasher and Sink is a toy that is a miniature version of what would be found in the home, letting children act out scenes of domesticity and playing house. Like the Musical Sweeper, this toy would most likely be used by a girl who would be imitating her mom, preparing her for the adult expectations of keeping a home and having the most modern appliances (like a dishwasher) in the kitchen.
The most beautiful women in TV and Movie History now become Barbie Collector Dolls created by acclaimed re-paint Artist Donna Brinkley.
Farrah Leni Fawcett is known as the world's Sexiest Star of all time... she will forever be one of Hollywood's greatest Icons. She was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the younger of two daughters.[3] Her mother, Pauline Alice January 30, 1914 – March 4, 2005), was a homemaker, and her father, James William Fawcett (October 14, 1917 – August 23, 2010), was an oil field contractor. Her sister was Diane Fawcett Walls (October 27, 1938 – October 16, 2001), a graphic artist. She was of Irish, French, English, and Choctaw Native American ancestry. Fawcett once said the name Ferrah was made up by her mother because it went well with their last name.
A Roman Catholic, Fawcett's early education was at the parish school of the church her family attended, St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Corpus Christi. She graduated from W. B. Ray High School in Corpus Christi, where she was voted Most Beautiful by her classmates her Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior years of High School. For three years, 1965–68, Fawcett attended the University of Texas at Austin, living one semester in Jester Center, and she became a sister of Delta Delta Delta Sorority. During her Freshman year, she was named one of the Ten Most Beautiful Coeds on Campus, the first time a Freshman had been chosen. Their photos were sent to various agencies in Hollywood. David Mirsch, a Hollywood agent called her and urged her to come to Los Angeles. She turned him down but he called her for the next two years. Finally, in 1968, the summer following her junior year, with her parents' permission to try her luck in Hollywood, Farrah moved to Hollywood. She did not return.
Upon arriving in Hollywood in 1968 she was signed to a $350 a week contract with Screen Gems. She began to appear in commercials for UltraBrite toothpaste, Noxema, Max Factor, Wella Balsam shampoo and conditioner, Mercury Cougar automobiles and Beauty Rest matresses. Fawcett's earliest acting appearances were guest spots on The Flying Nun and I Dream of Jeannie. She made numerous other TV appearances including Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, [Mayberry RFD]] and The Partridge Family. She appeared in four episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man with husband Lee Majors, The Dating Game, S.W.A.T and a recurring role on Harry O alongside David Janssen. She also appeared in the Made for TV movies, The Feminist and the Fuzz, The Great American Beauty Contest, The Girl Who Came Giftwrapped, and Murder of Flight 502.
She had a sizable part in the 1969 French romantic-drama, Love Is a Funny Thing. She played opposite Raquel Welch and Mae West in the film version of, Myra Breckinridge (1970). The film earned negative reviews and was a box office flop. However, much has been written and said about the scene where Farrah and Raquel share a bed, and a near sexual experience. Fawcett co-starred with Michael York and Richard Jordan in the well-received science-fiction film, Logan's Run in 1976.
In 1976, Pro Arts Inc., pitched the idea of a poster of Fawcett to her agent, and a photo shoot was arranged with photographer Bruce McBroom, who was hired by the poster company. According to friend Nels Van Patten, Fawcett styled her own hair and did her make-up without the aid of a mirror. Her blonde highlights were further heightened by a squeeze of lemon juice. From 40 rolls of film, Fawcett herself selected her six favorite pictures, eventually narrowing her choice to the one that made her famous. The resulting poster, of Fawcett in a one-piece red bathing suit, was a best-seller; sales estimates ranged from over 5 million[12] to 8 million to as high as 12 million copies.
On March 21, 1976, the first appearance of Fawcett playing the character Jill Munroe in Charlie's Angels was aired as a movie of the week. Fawcett and her husband were frequent tennis partners of producer Aaron Spelling, and he and his producing partner thought of casting Fawcett as the golden girl Jill because of his friendship with the couple. The movie starred Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith and Fawcett (then billed as Farrah Fawcett-Majors) as private investigators for Townsend Associates, a detective agency run by a reclusive multi-millionaire whom the women had never met. Voiced by John Forsythe, the Charles Townsend character presented cases and dispensed advice via a speakerphone to his core team of three female employees, whom he referred to as Angels. They were aided in the office and occasionally in the field by two male associates, played by character actors David Doyle and David Ogden Stiers. The program quickly earned a huge following, leading the network to air it a second time and approve production for a series, with the pilot's principal cast except David Ogden Stiers.
Fawcett's record-breaking poster that sold 12 million copies.
The Charlie's Angels series formally debuted on September 22, 1976. Fawcett emerged as a fan favorite in the show, and the actress won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Performer in a New TV Program. In a 1977 interview with TV Guide, Fawcett said: When the show was number three, I thought it was our acting. When we got to be number one, I decided it could only be because none of us wears a bra.
Fawcett's appearance in the television show boosted sales of her poster, and she earned far more in royalties from poster sales than from her salary for appearing in Charlie's Angels. Her hairstyle went on to become an international trend, with women sporting a Farrah-do a Farrah-flip, or simply Farrah hair Iterations of her hair style predominated American women's hair styles well into the 1980s.
Fawcett left Charlie's Angels after only one season and Cheryl Ladd replaced her on the show, portraying Jill Munroe's younger sister Kris Munroe. Numerous explanations for Fawcett's precipitous withdrawal from the show were offered over the years. The strain on her marriage due to her long absences most days due to filming, as her then-husband Lee Majors was star of an established television show himself, was frequently cited, but Fawcett's ambitions to broaden her acting abilities with opportunities in films have also been given. Fawcett never officially signed her series contract with Spelling due to protracted negotiations over royalties from her image's use in peripheral products, which led to an even more protracted lawsuit filed by Spelling and his company when she quit the show.
The show was a major success throughout the world, maintaining its appeal in syndication, spawning a cottage industry of peripheral products, particularly in the show's first three seasons, including several series of bubble gum cards, two sets of fashion dolls, numerous posters, puzzles, and school supplies, novelizations of episodes, toy vans, and a board game, all featuring Fawcett's likeness. The Angels also appeared on the covers of magazines around the world, from countless fan magazines to TV Guide (four times) to Time Magazine.
The series ultimately ran for five seasons. As part of a settlement to a lawsuit over her early departure, Fawcett returned for six guest appearances over seasons three and four of the series.
In 2004, the television movie Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels dramatized the events from the show with supermodel and actress Tricia Helfer portraying Fawcett and Ben Browder portraying Lee Majors, Fawcett's then-husband.
In 1983, Fawcett won critical acclaim for her role in the Off-Broadway stage production of the controversial play Extremities, written by William Mastrosimone. Replacing Susan Sarandon, she was a would-be rape victim who turns the tables on her attacker. She described the role as the most grueling, the most intense, the most physically demanding and emotionally exhausting of her career. During one performance, a stalker in the audience disrupted the show by asking Fawcett if she had received the photos and letters he had mailed her. Police removed the man and were able only to issue a summons for disorderly conduct.
The following year, her role as a battered wife in the fact-based television movie The Burning Bed (1984) earned her the first of her four Emmy Award nominations. The project is noted as being the first television movie to provide a nationwide 800 number that offered help for others in the situation, in this case victims of domestic abuse. It was the highest-rated television movie of the season.
In 1986, Fawcett appeared in the movie version of Extremities, which was also well received by critics, and for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.
She appeared in Jon Avnet's Between Two Women with Colleen Dewhurst, and took several more dramatic roles as infamous or renowned women. She was nominated for Golden Globe awards for roles as Beate Klarsfeld in Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story and troubled Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton in Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story, and won a CableACE Award for her 1989 portrayal of groundbreaking LIFE magazine photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White in Double Exposure: The Story of Margaret Bourke-White. Her 1989 portrayal of convicted murderer Diane Downs in the miniseries Small Sacrifices earned her a second Emmy nomination[20] and her sixth Golden Globe Award nomination. The miniseries won a Peabody Award for excellence in television, with Fawcett's performance singled out by the organization, which stated Ms. Fawcett brings a sense of realism rarely seen in television miniseries (to) a drama of unusual power Art meets life.
Fawcett, who had steadfastly resisted appearing nude in magazines throughout the 1970s and 1980s (although she appeared topless in the 1980 film Saturn 3), caused a major stir by posing semi-nude in the December 1995 issue of Playboy.[citation needed] At the age of 50, she returned to Playboy with a pictorial for the July 1997 issue, which also became a top seller. The issue and its accompanying video featured Fawcett painting on canvas using her body, which had been an ambition of hers for years.
That same year, Fawcett was chosen by Robert Duvall to play his wife in an independent feature film he was producing, The Apostle. Fawcett received an Independent Spirit Award nomination as Best Actress for the film, which was highly critically acclaimed.
In 2000, she worked with director Robert Altman and an all-star cast in the feature film Dr. T the Women, playing the wife of Richard Gere (her character has a mental breakdown, leading to her first fully nude appearance). Also that year, Fawcett's collaboration with sculptor Keith Edmier was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, later traveling to The Andy Warhol Museum. The sculpture was also presented in a series of photographs and a book by Rizzoli.
In November 2003, Fawcett prepared for her return to Broadway in a production of Bobbi Boland, the tragicomic tale of a former Miss Florida. However, the show never officially opened, closing before preview performances. Fawcett was described as vibrating with frustration at the producer's extraordinary decision to cancel the production. Only days earlier the same producer closed an Off-Broadway show she had been backing.
Fawcett continued to work in television, with well-regarded appearances in made-for-television movies and on popular television series including Ally McBeal and four episodes each of Spin City and The Guardian, her work on the latter show earning her a third Emmy nomination in 2004.
Fawcett was married to Lee Majors, star of television's The Six Million Dollar Man, from 1973 to 1982, although the couple separated in 1979. During her marriage, she was known and credited in her roles as Farrah Fawcett-Majors.
From 1979 until 1997 Fawcett was involved romantically with actor Ryan O'Neal. The relationship produced a son, Redmond James Fawcett O'Neal, born January 30, 1985 in Los Angeles.[26] In April 2009, on probation for driving under the influence, Redmond was arrested for possession of narcotics while Fawcett was in the hospital.[citation needed] On June 22, 2009, The Los Angeles Times and Reuters reported that Ryan O'Neal had said that Fawcett had agreed to marry him as soon as she felt strong enough.
From 1997 to 1998, Fawcett had a relationship with Canadian filmmaker James Orr, writer and producer of the Disney feature film in which she co-starred with Chevy Chase and Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Man of the House. The relationship ended when Orr was charged with and later convicted of beating Fawcett during a 1998 fight between the two.
On June 5, 1997, Fawcett received negative commentary after giving a rambling interview and appearing distracted on Late Show with David Letterman. Months later, she told the host of The Howard Stern Show her behavior was just her way of joking around with the television host, partly in the guise of promoting her Playboy pictoral and video, explaining what appeared to be random looks across the theater was just her looking and reacting to fans in the audience. Though the Letterman appearance spawned speculation and several jokes at her expense, she returned to the show a week later, with success, and several years later, after Joaquin Phoenix's mumbling act on a February 2009 appearance on The Late Show, Letterman wrapped up the interview by saying, I'm sorry you couldn't be here tonight and recalled Fawcett's earlier appearance by noting we owe an apology to Farrah Fawcett.
Fawcett's elder sister, Diane Fawcett Walls, died from lung cancer just before her 63rd birthday, on October 16, 2001.[33] The fifth episode of her 2005 Chasing Farrah series followed the actress home to Texas to visit with her father, James, and mother, Pauline. Pauline Fawcett died soon after, on March 4, 2005, at the age of 91.
Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006, and began treatment, including chemotherapy and surgery. Four months later, on her 60th birthday, the Associated Press wire service reported that Fawcett was, at that point, cancer free.
Less than four months later, in May 2007, Fawcett brought a small digital video camera to document a doctor's office visit. There, she was told a malignant polyp was found where she had been treated for the initial cancer. Doctors contemplated whether to implant a radiation seeder (which differs from conventional radiation and is used to treat other types of cancer). Fawcett's U.S. doctors told her that she would require a colostomy. Instead, Fawcett traveled to Germany for treatments described variously in the press as holistic aggressive and alternative. There, Dr. Ursula Jacob prescribed a treatment including surgery to remove the anal tumor, and a course of perfusion and embolization for her liver cancer by Doctors Claus Kiehling and Thomas Vogl in Germany, and chemotherapy back in Fawcett's home town of Los Angeles. Although initially the tumors were regressing, their reappearance a few months later necessitated a new course, this time including laser ablation therapy and chemoembolization. Aided by friend Alana Stewart, Fawcett documented her battle with the disease.
In early April 2009, Fawcett, back in the United States, was hospitalized, with media reports declaring her unconscious and in critical condition, although subsequent reports indicated her condition was not so dire. On April 6, the Associated Press reported that her cancer had metastasized to her liver, a development Fawcett had learned of in May 2007 and which her subsequent treatments in Germany had targeted. The report denied that she was unconscious, and explained that the hospitalization was due not to her cancer but a painful abdominal hematoma that had been the result of a minor procedure. Her spokesperson emphasized she was not at death's door adding - She remains in good spirits with her usual sense of humor ... She's been in great shape her whole life and has an incredible resolve and an incredible resilience. Fawcett was released from the hospital on April 9, picked up by longtime companion O'Neal, and, according to her doctor, was walking and in great spirits and looking forward to celebrating Easter at home.
A month later, on May 7, Fawcett was reported as critically ill, with Ryan O'Neal quoted as saying she now spends her days at home, on an IV, often asleep. The Los Angeles Times reported Fawcett was in the last stages of her cancer and had the chance to see her son Redmond in April 2009, although shackled and under supervision, as he was then incarcerated. Her 91-year-old father, James Fawcett, flew out to Los Angeles to visit.
The cancer specialist that was treating Fawcett in L.A., Dr. Lawrence Piro, and Fawcett's friend and Angels co-star Kate Jackson – a breast cancer survivor – appeared together on The Today Show dispelling tabloid-fueled rumors, including suggestions Fawcett had ever been in a coma, had ever reached 86 pounds, and had ever given up her fight against the disease or lost the will to live. Jackson decried such fabrications, saying they really do hurt a human being and a person like Farrah. Piro recalled when it became necessary for Fawcett to undergo treatments that would cause her to lose her hair, acknowledging Farrah probably has the most famous hair in the world but also that it is not a trivial matter for any cancer patient, whose hair affects [one's] whole sense of who [they] are. Of the documentary, Jackson averred Fawcett didn't do this to show that 'she' is unique, she did it to show that we are all unique ... This was ... meant to be a gift to others to help and inspire them.
The two-hour documentary Farrah's Story, which was filmed by Fawcett and friend Alana Stewart, aired on NBC on May 15, 2009.[47] The documentary was watched by nearly nine million people at its premiere airing, and it was re-aired on the broadcast network's cable stations MSNBC, Bravo and Oxygen. Fawcett earned her fourth Emmy nomination posthumously on July 16, 2009, as producer of Farrah's Story.
Controversy surrounded the aired version of the documentary, with her initial producing partner, who had worked with her four years earlier on her reality series Chasing Farrah, alleging O'Neal's and Stewart's editing of the program was not in keeping with Fawcett's wishes to more thoroughly explore rare types of cancers such as her own and alternative methods of treatment. He was especially critical of scenes showing Fawcett's son visiting her for the last time, in shackles, while she was nearly unconscious in bed. Fawcett had generally kept her son out of the media, and his appearances were minimal in Chasing Farrah.
Fawcett died at approximately 9:28 am, PDT on June 25, 2009, in the intensive care unit of Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, with O'Neal and Stewart by her side. A private funeral was held in Los Angeles on June 30. Fawcett's son Redmond was permitted to leave his California detention center to attend his mother's funeral, where he gave the first reading.
The night of her death, ABC aired an hour-long special episode of 20/20 featuring clips from several of Barbara Walters' past interviews with Fawcett as well as new interviews with Ryan O'Neal, Jaclyn Smith, Alana Stewart, and Dr. Lawrence Piro. Walters followed up on the story on Friday's episode of 20/20. CNN's Larry King Live planned a show exclusively about Fawcett that evening until the death of Michael Jackson several hours later caused the program to shift to cover both stories. Cher, a longtime friend of Fawcett, and Suzanne de Passe, executive producer of Fawcett's Small Sacrifices mini-series, both paid tribute to Fawcett on the program. NBC aired a Dateline NBC special Farrah Fawcett: The Life and Death of an Angel; the following evening, June 26, preceded by a rebroadcast of Farrah's Story in prime time. That weekend and the following week, television tributes continued. MSNBC aired back-to-back episodes of its Headliners and Legends episodes featuring Fawcett and Jackson. TV Land aired a mini-marathon of Charlie's Angels and Chasing Farrah episodes. E! aired Michael and Farrah: Lost Icons and the The Biography Channel aired Bio Remembers: Farrah Fawcett. The documentary Farrah's Story re-aired on the Oxygen Network and MSNBC.
Larry King said of the Fawcett phenomenon,
TV had much more impact back in the '70s than it does today. Charlie's Angels got huge numbers every week – nothing really dominates the television landscape like that today. Maybe American Idol comes close, but now there are so many channels and so many more shows it's hard for anything to get the audience, or amount of attention, that Charlie's Angels got. Farrah was a major TV star when the medium was clearly dominant.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner said Farrah was one of the iconic beauties of our time. Her girl-next-door charm combined with stunning looks made her a star on film, TV and the printed page.
Kate Jackson said,
She was a selfless person who loved her family and friends with all her heart, and what a big heart it was. Farrah showed immense courage and grace throughout her illness and was an inspiration to those around her... I will remember her kindness, her cutting dry wit and, of course, her beautiful smile...when you think of Farrah, remember her smiling because that is exactly how she wanted to be remembered: smiling.
She is buried at the Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles.
The red one-piece bathing suit worn by Farrah in her famous 1976 poster was donated to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History (NMAH) on February 2, 2011.[65] Said to have been purchased at a Saks Fifth Avenue store, the red Lycra suit made by the leading Australian swimsuit company Speedo, was donated to the Smithsonian by her executors and was formally presented to NMAH in Washington D.C. by her longtime companion Ryan O'Neal.[66] The suit and the poster are expected to go on temporary display sometime in 2011–12. They will be made additions to the Smithsonian's popular culture department.
The famous poster of Farrah in a red swimsuit has been produced as a Barbie doll. The limited edition dolls, complete with a gold chain and the girl-next-door locks, have been snapped up by Barbie fans.
In 2011, Men's Health named her one of the 100 Hottest Women of All-Time ranking her at No. 31
Marsha Beene, Baxter County, receiving Project Book Award for Oakland/Promise Land EH Club's project "Sweet Treats for the Mountain Home Food Basket"
Joined by Ruth Hall & Barbara Summers, Ozark District Associate Directors.
Rosa Thomas, Carroll County EHC & Busy Bees EHC (Carroll County)
Joined by Ruth Hall & Barbara Summers, Ozark District Associate Directors.
American postcard by Coral-Lee, Rancho Cordova, CA, no. Personality # 14, 1978, no. C32305. Photo: Douglas Kirkland / Contact. Caption: George Burns - Eighty-two year old star of "Oh God" still has it all together after a lifetime of success on stage and screen. An immortal still active on this earth! October, 1975.
George Burns (1896-1996) was an American actor, comedian, singer, and published author. He formed a comedy duo with his wife Gracie Allen and typically played the straight man to her zany roles. At the age of 79, Burns won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Sunshine Boys (1975) and then played the title role in Oh, God! (1977). The remarkably active, amiable old comedian continued performing until his 90s.
George Burns was born Nathan Birnbaum in 1896 in New York City. He was the ninth of 12 children and his family nicknamed him "Nattie". His father was Eliezer 'Louis' Birnbaum, a coat presser who also was a substitute cantor at a local synagogue. His mother was Hadassah "Dorah" Bluth, a homemaker. Both parents were Jewish immigrants, originally from the small town of Kolbuszowa in Austrian Galicia (currently part of Poland). Kolbuszowa had a large Jewish population until World War II when the German occupation forces in Poland relocated the local Jews to a ghetto in Rzeszów. In 1903, Louis Birnbaum caught influenza and died. Orphaned when 7-year-old, Burns had to work to support his family. He shined shoes, ran errands, sold newspapers, and worked as a syrup maker in a local candy shop. Burns liked to sing while working and practised singing harmony with three co-workers. They were discovered by letter carrier Lou Farley, who gave them the idea to perform singing in exchange for payment. The four children soon started performing as the "Pee-Wee Quartet", singing in brothels, ferryboats, saloons, and street corners. They put their hats down for donations from their audience, though their audience was not always generous. In Burns' words: "Sometimes the customers threw something in the hats. Sometimes they took something out of the hats. Sometimes they took the hats." Burns started smoking cigars around 1910, when 14-years-old. It became a lifelong habit for him. Burns' performing career was briefly interrupted in 1917 when he was drafted for service in World I. He eventually failed his physical exams, due to his poor eyesight. By the early 1920s, he adopted the stage name "George Burns", though he told several stories of why he chose the name. He supposedly named himself after then-famous baseball player George Henry Burns, or another famous baseball player George Joseph Burns. In another version, he named himself after his brother Izzy "George" Birnbaum and took the last name "Burns" in honour of the Burns Brothers Coal Company.
George Burns performed dance routines with various female partners until he eventually married his partner Gracie Allen in 1926. Burns and Allen began their career in motion pictures with a series of comic short films in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Their debut was the short comedy Lambchops (Murray Roth, 1929), which was distributed by Vitaphone. The film simply recorded one of Burns and Allen's comedy routines from Vaudeville. Burns made his feature film debut in a supporting role in the musical comedy The Big Broadcast (Frank Tuttle, 1932) with Bing Crosby. In International House (A. Edward Sutherland, 1933) and Six of a Kind (Leo McCarey, 1934) they appeared with W.C. Fields. Burns appeared regularly in films throughout the 1930s, with his last film role for several years in the musical Honolulu (Edward Buzzell, 1939) starring Eleanor Powell. Burns was reportedly considered for a leading role in Road to Singapore (Victor Schertzinger, 1940), but the studio replaced him with Bob Hope. Burns and Allen started appearing as comic relief for a radio show featuring bandleader Guy Lombardo. By February 1932, they received their own sketch comedy radio show. The couple portrayed younger singles until the show was retooled in 1941 and started featuring them as a married couple. By the fall of 1941, the show had evolved into a situational comedy about married life. Burns and Allen's supporting cast included notable voice actors Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, and Hal March. The radio show finally ended in 1949, reworked into the popular television show The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950-1958). Allen would typically play the "illogical" housewife, while Burns played the straight man and broke the fourth wall to speak to the audience. The couple formed the production company McCadden Corporation to help produce the show. Gracie Allen developed heart problems during the 1950s, and by the late 1950s was unable to put up the energy needed for the show. She fully retired in 1958. The show was briefly retooled to "The George Burns Show" (1958-1959), but Burns' comedy style was not as popular as that of his wife. The new show was cancelled due to low ratings.
Following Allen's death in 1964, George Burns attempted a television comeback by creating the sitcom Wendy and Me (1964-1965) about the life of a younger married couple. The lead roles were reserved for Ron Harper and Connie Stevens, while Burns had a supporting role as their landlord. He also performed as the show's narrator. As a television producer, Burns produced the military comedy No Time for Sergeants, and the sitcom Mona McCluskey. As an actor, he mostly appeared in theatres and nightclubs. Burns had a career comeback with the comedy The Sunshine Boys (Herbert Ross, 1975), his first film appearance since World War II. He played faded vaudevillian Al Lewis, who has a difficult relationship with his former partner Willy Clark (played by Walter Matthau). The role was met with critical success, and Burns won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. At age 80, Burns was the oldest Oscar winner at the time. His record was broken by Jessica Tandy in 1989. Burns had his greatest film success playing God in the comedy Oh, God! (Carl Reiner, 1977). The film brought in 51 million dollars at the domestic box office and was one of the greatest hits of 1977. Burns returned to the role in the sequels Oh, God! Book II (Gilbert Cates, 1980) and Oh, God! You Devil (Paul Bogart, 1984). He had a double role as both God and the Devil in the last film. Burns had several other film roles until the 1990s. His most notable films in this period were the musical comedy Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Michael Schultz, 1978), the comedy Just You and Me, Kid (Leonard Stern, 1979) opposite Brooke Shields, the caper Going in Style (Martin Brest, 1979) with Art Carney and Lee Strasberg, and the fantasy-comedy 18 Again! (Paul Flaherty, 1988). The latter featured him as a grandfather who changes souls with his grandson (Charlie Schlatter). Burns' last film role was a bit part in the mystery film Radioland Murders (Mel Smith, 1994), which was a box office flop. In July 1994, Burns fell in his bathtub and underwent surgery to remove fluid in his skull. He survived, but his health never fully recovered. He was forced to retire from acting and stand-up comedy. On 20 January 20 1996, Burns celebrated his 100th birthday, but was in poor health and had to cancel a pre-arranged comeback performance. In March 1996, he suffered from cardiac arrest and died in Beverley Hills. He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, next to Gracie Allen. George and Gracie adopted two children as infants: Sandra Burns (1934) and Ronnie Burns (1935).
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