Jaclyn Ellen Smith (born October 26, 1947) is an American actress. She is best known for the role of
Kelly GarrettKelly Garrett is one of six female fictional private detectives in the 1976-1981 television series Charlie's Angels. She was portrayed by Jaclyn Smith, who also portrayed the character in the 1977 pilot episode of The San Pedro Beach Bums and reprised the role in a cameo in the 2003 film Charlie's...
in the television series
Charlie's AngelsCharlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men. The series was broadcast in the USA on the ABC Television Network from 1976 to 1981 and was one of the most...
, and was the only original female lead to remain with the series for its complete run (1976–81). She became a well known face on television starring in over thirty made for TV movies and more recently was the hostess of Bravo's weekly competitive
reality televisionReality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors...
show
Shear GeniusShear Genius is an American reality television series on the Bravo network that focuses on hair styling. Contestants engage in weekly elimination competitions until a winner is determined. The show is hosted by Jaclyn Smith....
for its first two seasons. Beginning in the 1980s, she began developing and marketing her own brands of clothing and perfume. She has often been voted one of the most beautiful women in the world.
Early life
Smith was born in Houston, Texas, the daughter of Margaret Ellen (née Hartsfield) and Jack Smith, a dentist. She attended
Trinity UniversityTrinity University is a private, independent, primarily undergraduate, university in San Antonio, Texas.-History:Trinity was founded in 1869 by Cumberland Presbyterians in Tehuacana, Texas. The school was formed from the remnants of three small Cumberland Presbyterian colleges that had failed...
in San Antonio.
After college she moved to New York City with hopes of dancing with the ballet. Her career aspirations shifted to modeling and acting as she found work in television commercials and print ads, including one for Listerene mouthwash. She landed a job as a "Breck girl" for
Breck ShampooBreck Shampoo is an American brand of shampoo that is also known for its Breck Girls advertising campaign.In 1930 Dr. John H. Breck, Sr. of Springfield, Massachusetts founded Breck Shampoo. In 1936, son Edward J...
in 1971, and a few years later joined another popular model/actress,
Farrah FawcettFarrah Fawcett was an American actress. A multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she first appeared as private investigator Jill Munroe in the TV series Charlie's Angels in 1976...
, as a spokesmodel for
Wella BalsamWella is a German company, and one of the world’s leading cosmetics suppliers. Founded in 1880 by Franz Stroher, with its headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany, the company is represented in over 150 countries....
shampoo.
Charlie's Angels
On March 21, 1976, the first appearance of Smith playing the character
Kelly GarrettKelly Garrett is one of six female fictional private detectives in the 1976-1981 television series Charlie's Angels. She was portrayed by Jaclyn Smith, who also portrayed the character in the 1977 pilot episode of The San Pedro Beach Bums and reprised the role in a cameo in the 2003 film Charlie's...
in
Charlie's AngelsCharlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men. The series was broadcast in the USA on the ABC Television Network from 1976 to 1981 and was one of the most...
was aired as a movie of the week. The movie starred
Kate JacksonKate Jackson is an American actress, director, and producer. She is a three-time Emmy Award nominee, twice in the Best Actress category and once in the Best Supporting Actress category...
,
Farrah FawcettFarrah Fawcett was an American actress. A multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she first appeared as private investigator Jill Munroe in the TV series Charlie's Angels in 1976...
(billed as Farrah Fawcett-Majors) and Smith as private investigators for Townsend Associates, a detective agency run by a reclusive multi-millionaire whom the women had never met. Voiced by
John ForsytheJohn Forsythe is an American stage, television and film actor. Forsythe starred in three television series, spanning three decades, as single playboy father Bentley Gregg in the 1950s sitcom Bachelor Father ; as the unseen millionaire Charles Townsend on the 1970s crime drama Charlie's Angels ,...
, the Charles Townsend character presented cases and dispensed advice via a speakerphone to his core team of three female employees, to whom he referred as "Angels." They were aided in the office and occasionally in the field by two male associates, played by character actors
David DoyleDavid Fitzgerald Doyle was an American actor.-Early life:Doyle was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Mary Ruth and Lewis Raymond Doyle, an attorney. His maternal grandfather, John Fitzgerald, was a prominent railroad builder and banker in Nebraska...
and
David Ogden StiersDavid Ogden Stiers is an American actor, voice actor, and musician, noted for his role in the television sitcom M*A*S*H as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III and the science fiction drama The Dead Zone as Reverend Gene Purdy...
. The program earned a huge Nielsen rating, causing the network to air it a second time and okay production for a series, with all of the principal characters save the one played by Stiers.
The series formally debuted on September 22, 1976, and ran for five seasons. The show would become a smash success not only in the U.S. but, in successive years, in syndication around the world, 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 dollFashion dolls are dolls designed to be dressed and redressed to reflect fashion trends or occasionally fantasy play. The dolls are typically made of vinyl or another plastic, and are manufactured both as toys and as collectibles. They are enjoyed by many age groups. The dolls are usually modeled...
s, numerous posters, puzzles, and school supplies, novelizations of episodes, toy vans, and a board game, all featuring Smith'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.
Media phenomenon Fawcett-Majors departed at the end of the first season, and
Cheryl LaddCheryl Ladd is an American singer, author and actress, perhaps best known for her role as Kris Munroe in the 1970s television series Charlie's Angels.-Career:...
was a successful addition to the cast, remaining until the end of the series. Jackson departed at the end of the third season, and proved harder to replace, as first
Shelley HackShelley Marie Hack is an American former actress and model.-Biography:Hack was born in Greenwich, Connecticut. She graduated from Greenwich Academy and Smith College. She began her career as a teen fashion model and became the face of Revlon's Charlie perfume in the mid 1970s, which gave her...
and then
Tanya RobertsTanya Roberts is an American actress best known for her roles in Charlie's Angels, The Beastmaster, A View to a Kill, Sheena and That '70s Show...
were brought in to try re-igniting the chemistry, media attention and ratings success enjoyed by the earlier teams. Smith played her role for all five seasons of
Charlie's Angels until 1981, also portraying the Garrett character in a guest appearance in the 1977 pilot episode of
The San Pedro Beach Bums and in a cameo in the 2003 feature film
Charlie's Angels: Full ThrottleCharlie's Angels: Full Throttle is a action-comedy film. It is the sequel to the film, Charlie's Angels. It opened in the United States on June 27, 2003, and was number one at the box office for that weekend and made a worldwide total of more than $259 million.-Plot:The Angels are hired to...
.
Christina ChambersChristina Mae Chambers is an American actress and model.-Private Life:Chambers was born into a family of academics, both parents holding doctorates . She is the next-to-youngest of four siblings...
portrayed Smith in the television film
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels.
Career
Smith's first acting venture outside the Angels mold was the CBS-TV movie of the week
Escape from Bogen County (1977). Then came a leading role in Joyce Haber's
The Users with
Tony CurtisTony Curtis is an American film actor. He has played a variety of roles, from light comic, such as the musician on the run from gangsters in Some Like It Hot, to serious dramatic roles, such as an escaped convict in The Defiant Ones, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor...
and
John ForsytheJohn Forsythe is an American stage, television and film actor. Forsythe starred in three television series, spanning three decades, as single playboy father Bentley Gregg in the 1950s sitcom Bachelor Father ; as the unseen millionaire Charles Townsend on the 1970s crime drama Charlie's Angels ,...
in 1978.
In 1980, Smith starred with
Robert MitchumRobert Charles Durman Mitchum was an American film actor, author, composer and singer. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s.-Early life and...
in the suspense thriller
Nightkill. The movie was touted as her first big screen role, but turned out to be a huge disappointment for Smith, as the film was largely unreleased in the cinema and quickly went to TV.
Smith then starred in the blockbuster TV movie
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in 1981, and received a
Best ActressBest Actress can refer to:* Academy Award for Best Actress* BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role* Best Actress categories at the BAFTA film and television awards* Filmfare Best Actress Award* IIFA Best Actress Award...
nomination from the Golden Globe awards. However, she lost out to
Jane SeymourJane Seymour, OBE is an English actress best known as a Bond girl in the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die and the star of the 1990s American television series Dr...
who won the award for her role in the TV remake of
East of EdenEast of Eden is a novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, published in September 1952.Often described as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, East of Eden brings to life the intricate details of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, and their interwoven stories. The novel was originally...
. In 1983,
Sidney SheldonSidney Sheldon was an American writer. His TV works spanned a 20-year period during which he created The Patty Duke Show , I Dream of Jeannie and Hart to Hart , but it was not until after he turned 50 and began writing best-selling novels such as Master of the Game , The Other Side of Midnight...
's
Rage of AngelsRage of Angels is a 1980 novel by Sidney Sheldon.-Plot summary:Jennifer Parker is late for her first morning at work, where she's to be sworn in as an Assistant District Attorney for the State of New York, New York County...
arrived on Smith's doorstep. The actress was so popular that fans reportedly begged Sheldon to re-write the storyline that required Smith's character's son to die; there was a sequel in 1986. In 1984, Smith starred in the made for TV movie
The Night They Saved ChristmasThe Night They Saved Christmas is a 1984 RHI Entertainment Christmas film, executive produced by Robert Halmi, Senior and Junior; and originally developed for ABC. The film is about an oil company dynamiting in the North Pole in search of an oil field, unaware that they are endangering Santa Claus...
as an oil foreman's wife who is taken to see Santa Claus so that he can convince her to stop her husband's blasting activities before he destroys Santa.
In 1988, Smith appeared in another miniseries based from a Sheldon novel,
Windmills of the GodsWindmills of the Gods is a 1987 thriller novel by American writer Sidney Sheldon.-Plot summary:Mary Ashley, a professor at Kansas State University, is offered an ambassadorship by Paul Ellison, the US president. She rejects the offer because her husband, Dr. Edward Ashley, does not want to leave...
, this time with
Robert WagnerRobert John Wagner is an American film and television actor of stage and screen, who starred in movies, soap operas and television...
as her love interest. It was another triumph in the Nielsen ratings.
The one that certified Smith's reign as the
Queen of TV/Miniseries was the offer to star opposite the
King Of TV Miniseries Richard ChamberlainRichard Chamberlain is an American actor of stage and screen who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr. Kildare .-Early life:...
in the adaptation of Robert Ludlum's
The Bourne IdentityThe Bourne Identity is a 1988 television movie adaptation of Robert Ludlum's novel The Bourne Identity.The film follows the storyline of the novel, with a rather long run-time...
. Smith was Chamberlain's first choice as his leading lady but she had just wrapped up with the
Windmills of the Gods shoot and declined the part. The role was offered to
Lesley-Anne DownLesley-Anne Down in Wandsworth, London, England, is a British actress who is best known for her roles as Georgina Worsley in the ITV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs, Olivia Blake in the NBC soap opera Sunset Beach and Madeline Fabray LaMotte Main in North and South.Since March 2003 she has...
who wanted her husband to photograph the film. Producers refused and again offered the role to Smith. The result was a huge hit not only in
AmericaThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
but overseas.
In 1989, Smith starred in
Settle the Score, her first disturbing role. It detailed incest, rape, killings, and other dirty family secrets. The film again proved her Nielsen ratings clout.
Other hits were
Florence Nightingale,
George Washington,
Lies Before Kisses,
The Rape of Dr. Willis,
In the Arms of a Killer, and several TV versions of
Danielle SteelDanielle Fernande Dominique Schuelein-Steel better known as Danielle Steel, is an American romantic novelist and author of mainstream dramas....
novels, including
Family AlbumFamily Album, also known as Danielle Steel's Family Album, is a 1994 television film directed by Jack Bender. The film, which was released in two parts, is based upon the 1985 novel of the same name written by Danielle Steel...
(1994). Her then-husband Tony Richmond also directed her in the 1985 feature film
Deja VuDéjà vu or promnesia, is the experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously , although the exact circumstances...
.
In 1989, Smith had the title role in
Christine Cromwell, a mystery television series based in San Francisco which only lasted one season. Its cast included such esteemed actors as
Celeste HolmCeleste Holm is an American stage, film, and television actress, known for her Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman's Agreement , as well as for her Oscar-nominated performance in All About Eve ....
(as Christine Cromwell's oft-married mother) and
Theodore BikelTheodore Meir Bikel is an Academy Award- and Tony Award-nominated character actor, folk singer and musician. He made his film debut in The African Queen and was nominated for an Academy award for his role as the Southern Sheriff in The Defiant Ones .-Life and career:Bikel was born in Vienna,...
.
Christine Cromwell was part of ABC's "Mystery Wheel" series which rotated with other detective shows like
Columbo,
KojakKojak is an American television series starring Telly Savalas as the eponymous, bald New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. It aired from October 24, 1973 to March 18, 1978 on CBS. It took the time slot of the popular Cannon series, which was moved one hour earlier...
and Burt Reynolds' "B.L. Stryker". Smith's show had the distinction of being the only female character of the wheel.
Smith was honored in 1989 with a star on the
Hollywood Walk of FameThe Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, that serves as an entertainment museum...
.
From 2002 to 2004, Smith had a recurring role as Vanessa Cavanaugh in the series
The DistrictThe District is a television police drama which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004. The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of Washington, D.C.'s Police Department .-Premise:...
, which starred
Craig T. NelsonCraig Theodore Nelson is an American actor.-Personal life:Nelson was born in Spokane, Washington to a drummer father. He has a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do and attended the University of Arizona and Central Washington University, two publicly funded colleges.During the 1970s and 1980s, Nelson became...
. She reprised her
Kelly GarrettKelly Garrett is one of six female fictional private detectives in the 1976-1981 television series Charlie's Angels. She was portrayed by Jaclyn Smith, who also portrayed the character in the 1977 pilot episode of The San Pedro Beach Bums and reprised the role in a cameo in the 2003 film Charlie's...
role for a short cameo in the 2003
Charlie's AngelsCharlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men. The series was broadcast in the USA on the ABC Television Network from 1976 to 1981 and was one of the most...
feature film, and appeared on episodes of "Hope and Faith". In May 2005, Smith starred as Judge Kay Woodbury in Hallmark’s production of
Ordinary Miracles.
Her appearance on the 2006 Emmy telecast led Bravo TV’s producers to cast Smith as the celebrity host of Bravo’s weekly competitive reality series,
Shear GeniusShear Genius is an American reality television series on the Bravo network that focuses on hair styling. Contestants engage in weekly elimination competitions until a winner is determined. The show is hosted by Jaclyn Smith....
, which began airing in March 2007.
Shear Genius (Season 2)The second season of Shear Genius premiered June 25, 2008 on Bravo. This season features 12 stylists competing in various challenges to be declared the winner of Shear Genius. Jaclyn Smith and Rene Fris returned as the host and mentor respectively...
began airing June 25, 2008.
Designing
In 1985, Smith entered the business world with the introduction of her collection of women's apparel for
KmartKmart is a chain of discount department stores in the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam. The chain acquired Sears in 2005, forming a new corporation under the name Sears Holdings Corporation...
. She pioneered the concept of celebrities developing their own brands rather than merely endorsing others. More than 100 million women have purchased clothing or accessories bearing her name. Awareness of the Jaclyn Smith name and brand by women 35–60 years of age is said to be higher than 80%. Industry authority Woman's Wear Daily reported that the signature Jaclyn Smith line had the highest consumer awareness of any private label apparel brand in the country.
During her time as spokesmodel for
Max FactorMax Factor & Company is a cosmetics company, founded during 1909 by Maximilian Faktorowicz , Max Factor, a Polish-Jewish cosmetician artist for the Russian royal ballet...
, Smith released her own perfume, called "California". The perfume's popularity led the company to release "California for Men".
With this strong recognition and record of success, Jaclyn entered the home furnishings market in 2002.
A season 15 episode of
The SimpsonsThe Simpsons is an American animated television sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its eponymous family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie...
("
The Fat and the Furriest"The Fat and the Furriest" is the fifth episode of The Simpsons' fifteenth season, which originally aired November 30, 2003...
") lampooned the actress's many business successes, portraying Smith as having her own line of axe heads.
In May 2009 Smith allowed a documentary crew to profile her home life, design philosophy and relationship with Kmart in an online video series sponsored by Kmart.
Today’s Jaclyn Smith Home collections are promoted as a natural reflection of her deep commitment to family and home. The items bearing her name reflect many of the inspiring details and exceptional design of furnishings and accessories found in her personal collection and her exceptional eye for detail translates effortlessly to timeless designs. Smith's foray into home furnishings was extended to Kmart stores in the fall of 2008, with the chain's introduction of its Jaclyn Smith Today product line of bedding and bath accessories.
Personal life
Smith has been married four times. Her first marriage was to actor
Roger DavisJon Roger Davis is an American actor, best known for his roles in the television series Dark Shadows and Alias Smith and Jones. He was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky.-Show business career:...
(1968–1975). She married
Dennis ColeDennis Cole is an American actor.Before breaking into acting, Cole was a model for men's physique magazines. His first big acting break came when he landed a starring role in the ABC police drama Felony Squad, which ran from 1966 to 1969. He appeared for one season as stuntman Davey Evans in...
, an actor who had appeared on
Charlie's Angels in 1977 and 1978. Cole appeared on the show two more times before the couple divorced in 1981. Cole's son from a previous marriage, Joe Cole, with whom Smith had maintained a relationship after her divorce from his father, was murdered in 1991 during a robbery; the killer has not been apprehended. Smith married filmmaker Tony Richmond in 1981. The couple have two children, Spencer Margaret and Gaston. Smith and Richmond divorced in 1989. Smith has been married to Houston cardiothoracic surgeon Brad Allen since 1997.
Smith battled breast cancer in 2003.
It was an early dream of Smith's to be a dancer, and she had studied dance in her youth. She played a ballet dancer in the
McCloudMcCloud is an American television police drama that aired on NBC from 1970 to 1977. The title role was played by Dennis Weaver as Marshal Sam McCloud, a law officer from Taos, New Mexico on semi-permanent "special assignment" with the New York City Police Department.-History:The pilot, "Portrait of...
episode "The Man with the Golden Hat". Several episodes of
Charlie's Angels feature Smith performing various styles of dance, from the
can-canThe can-can is regarded today primarily as a physically demanding music hall dance, performed by a chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes with long skirts, petticoats, and black stockings, that hearkens back to the fashions of the 1890s...
to belly dancing.
On September 22, 2009, TMZ.com picked up a Honduran newspaper's false online report that Smith had been hospitalized in a private medical center there; TMZ later retracted the story, reporting that Smith was well and at home in California. Smith posted on her twitter page, denouncing the Honduran newspaper story as false—"Jaclyn is safe and home with her family. She is not in Honduras. It is a lie".
Tributes to Smith's beauty and popularity
A number of style mavens and magazine polls have attested to Smith's popularity and declared her one of the most beautiful women in the world. The difficult-to-please
Mr. BlackwellRichard Blackwell was an American fashion critic, journalist, television and radio personality, artist, former child actor and former fashion designer, sometimes known just as Mr. Blackwell. He was the creator of the "Ten Worst Dressed Women List", an annual awards presentation he unveiled in...
once named her "The World's Best Dressed Woman". In 1979,
McCall'sMcCall's was a monthly American women's magazine that enjoyed great popularity through much of the 20th century, peaking at a readership of six million in 1960. It was established as a small-format magazine called The Queen in 1873. In 1897, it was renamed McCall's Magazine and subsequently grew...
ran a poll of "Whose Face Most Women Would Like To Have". Jaclyn Smith topped the list. A nationwide poll in 1983 conducted by TV Picture Life magazine crowned Smith and
Tom SelleckThomas William "Tom" Selleck is an American actor, screenwriter and film producer, perhaps best known for his starring role on the television show Magnum, P.I., and for his recurring role as Dr...
as the "New King & Queen of Hollywood". While friend and actress
Jane SeymourJane Seymour, OBE is an English actress best known as a Bond girl in the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die and the star of the 1990s American television series Dr...
may have starred in more TV movies or miniseries, Smith tops the list according to the
Nielsen RatingsNielsen ratings are audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research, in an effort to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States...
; Smith has more #1 projects than any other actress in Hollywood, and she has often been called the "Queen of the miniseries". Despite this success and popularity,
CBSCBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American television network, one of television's original "big three", which also include NBC and ABC. Like NBC, CBS started out as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System...
rejected Smith's idea of playing
Gone with the WindGone with the Wind is a romantic drama and the only novel written by Margaret Mitchell. It is set in Jonesboro and Atlanta, Georgia during the American Civil War and Reconstruction...
author
Margaret MitchellMargaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 30 million copies...
in the movie version of the book
Road to Tara. Years later,
Shannen DohertyShannen Maria Doherty is an American actress and television director, perhaps best known for her work as Heather Duke in Heathers , as Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills, 90210 and its spinoff series 90210 and as Prue Halliwell in Charmed .-Early life and career beginnings:Doherty was born in Memphis,...
would star in an
NBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...
biopic of Mitchell.
In 1985,
McCall's named her as one of
America's 10 Best Bodies.
PeoplePeople is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. As of 2006, it has a circulation of 3.75 million and revenue expected to top $1.5 billion. It was named "Magazine of the Year" by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial,...
named Smith twice in its annual list of the "Most Beautiful People in the World". In the April 1984 issue of
PeoplePeople is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. As of 2006, it has a circulation of 3.75 million and revenue expected to top $1.5 billion. It was named "Magazine of the Year" by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial,...
, Smith was voted as one of the "Ten Great Faces of Our Time". Film producer
Robert EvansRobert Evans may refer to:*Bob Evans , Formula One driver from England*Bob Evans , restaurateur and founder of Bob Evans Restaurants...
said that Smith comes closest to perfection in her eyes, hair and facial structure. In 1985,
Ladies' Home Journal magazine sampled 2,000 men and women in 100 places in America to determine "America's Favorite Women". Jaclyn Smith came in the top of the list as the "Most Beautiful Woman in America", with
DynastyA dynasty is a succession of people belonging to the same family, who, through various means and forms maintain power, influence or authority over the course of generations. Most commonly the term is used specifically in reference to royal houses and imperial dynasties — their authority manifests...
star
Linda EvansLinda Evans is an American actress known primarily for her roles on television. She rose to fame as Barbara Stanwyck's daughter, Audra Barkley, on the 1960s Western, The Big Valley...
coming in second.
TV GuideTV Guide is a North American weekly magazine about television programming.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews. Some issues have also featured horoscope listings and crossword puzzles.-Annenberg/Triangle era: The...
magazine readers voted Jaclyn Smith as the "Most Beautiful Woman On Television" in 1991.
Comic strip artist
Sy BarrySeymour "Sy" Barry, born in 1928, is an American comic strip artist, best known for his work on The Phantom comic strip, which he drew for over 30 years.-Career:...
modeled the luscious Diana Palmer, wife of
The PhantomThe Phantom is an American adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, also creator of Mandrake the Magician. A popular feature adapted into many forms of media, including television and film, it stars a costumed crimefighter operating from the African jungle...
, after Smith. The French band
AirAir is a French music duo, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel...
was inspired by Smith's
Charlie's Angels character Kelly Garrett to record the song "Kelly Watch the Stars" for their critically acclaimed 1998 album
Moon SafariMoon Safari is the first full-length studio album by the French band Air, released in 1998. The album is considered a classic of the chillout genre. It is noted in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. It scored hits with the tracks "Sexy Boy", "Kelly Watch the Stars" and "All I Need"...
, and the track was released as a single.
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