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Was a huge fan of Van Morrison. When she was dying of cancer and too sick to attend one of his concerts, Morrison taped it especially for her. It was one of the last things she ever watched.
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Although she and Ryan O’Neal separated in 1997, they got back together in 2001 after he was diagnosed with leukemia. They remained a couple until her death.
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One of the original Charlie’s Angels. She left after only one season of Charlie’s Angels 1976 which resulted in a lawsuit. She was replaced by Cheryl Ladd, who played her sister. However, the lawsuit resulted in a settlement, where she agreed to make guest appearances, which meant that she had to act with her replacement. Ladd said that Fawcett was very professional to her, in spite of the awkwardness.
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She and her Charlie’s Angels 1976 co-star Jaclyn Smith considered it a prestigious honor when Time magazine wanted to put them with their other co-star Kate Jackson on their November 22, 1976 cover. But the producers wanted them to give up their lunch hour to do it, and Kate balked at it. She had frequently stopped the producers from overworking them and saw this as one more way for them to encroach on their personal time. She locked herself in with her trailer with Farrah and Jaclyn and told the producers that the door was stuck and won’t open. The three friends had their lunch together for 45 minutes, when the producers struggled to open the door and begged them to pose for Time magazine, which they did in the last 15 minutes of their lunch hour. It became one of the favorite times that the three friends shared on the series.
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Resided with Ryan O’Neal for 17 years. His daughter, actress Tatum O’Neal, disapproved of her father’s relationship with Fawcett. However, when Fawcett passed away, Tatum had only good things to say about her.
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She died on the same day as Michael Jackson. They were both in California at the time, and she died at 9:28 a.m. PDT, while he was pronounced dead at 2:26 p.m. after hours of unsuccessful resuscitation.
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On July 25, 1980, she had a rather strange opening night in Butterflies Are Free at the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre in Jupiter, Florida. An obese lady in the front row of tables began shouting insults at her and making bird calls during the performance. Later, this unidentified woman raised her dress and flashed the performers, causing co-star Dennis Christopher to take notice, although the character he was playing was a blind man. Nearby, a male patron began vomiting and, then, yet another patron fainted. Incredibly, the reviews for Farrah’s performance were positive.
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In a 1997 interview with Howard Stern, she said that her Myra Breckinridge 1970 co-star Raquel Welch was mean-spirited. However, when Stern tried to get her to badmouth her Charlie’s Angels co-stars by asking whether Kate Jackson was bitchy and whether Jaclyn Smith was dumb, she defended her friends by stating: Kate’s bitchy to some people but never bitchy to me. Jaclyn may not be intelligent to some people but she’s intelligent to me.
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She hadn’t met Kate Jackson officially until they were both cast in Charlie’s Angels 1976, at which time Kate told her that she had first seen her at a party when she first came to Hollywood and thought that if all girls as beautiful as her, she didn’t have a chance and might as well go home to Alabama. Jaclyn Smith and Farrah had worked together before on a Max Factor commercial, and they liked each other. Kate met Jaclyn at an audition for another show, and they developed a comradery. But it was Charlie’s Angels that put all three of them together in the same room for the first time, and they became close friends, a friendship that lasted until Farrah’s death. After her death, both Kate and Jaclyn have kept Farrah’s legacy alive.
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Goldie Hawn replaced Farrah in Foul Play 1978, because of the lawsuit brought by Charlie’s Angels producers who had prevented her from acting in it. Years later, she took over for Hawn who dropped out of Dr. T & the Women 2000.
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On January 28, 1998, her boyfriend, writer-director-producer James Orr, was convicted of misdemeanor battery after attacking her for supposedly refusing his marriage proposal.
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Was originally a Microbiology major in college until changing her major to Art in her sophomore year.
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This was revealed that her cancer has returned after three months of her being cancer-free. She was having a routine check-up and a small polyp was found that turned out to be malignant and she underwent treatment again. She was to have a steel seed implanted that will emit radiation.
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Despite sometimes bizarre behavior, including an incident on Late Show with David Letterman 1992, that has led to claims she is a drug addict, she says that she never uses drugs. She claims she gets giggly when she is nervous. She went on Letterman unprepared, she said, and her nervousness affected her behavior.
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Following the debut of Charlie’s Angels 1976, the number of baby girls named Farrah increased dramatically in the United States. In 1977, this was the 177th most popular name.
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Her iconic feathered blonde locks and bright smile inspired the 1977 Superstar Barbie Doll by Mattel, and this specific face sculpt would be a fan favorite for decades to come. To commemorate her, Mattel would officially release a Black Label collector Barbie in 2011 that was sculpted in her likeness, and permanently posed in the same position as her in the iconic red swimsuit poster.
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Her death was said to have been overshadowed by the death of Michael Jackson, who died on the same day she did, five hours later.
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She was born into a Catholic family, and she and her sister attended Catholic schools. She was religious and regularly attended mass and carried rosary with her to her cancer treatments. She received last rites on her death bed and had a Catholic funeral and burial.
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In the late 1970s, she and her husband Lee Majors formed Fawcett-Majors Productions.
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Hospitalized in a Los Angeles hospital in a critical condition on April 5, 2009.
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She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 7057 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 23, 1995.
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She attended Rodney Dangerfield’s memorial at which she held a Native American butterfly release ceremony and is sculpting a bronze life-size statue of Rodney to be placed in Pierce Brothers Memorial Park.
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Early in her career, she appeared as a contestant on The Dating Game 1965.
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Revealed she was battling cancer of the intestine and was undergoing radiation treatment.
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Was offered a cameo in the film version of Charlie’s Angels 2000. Negotiations fell through after Fawcett insisted on being cast as the voice of the new Charlie.
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Attended the University of Texas at Austin 1965-1968.
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Released from a Los Angeles hospital after receiving treatment for abdominal bleeding on April 9, 2009.
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Following her death, she was interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
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She has been battling cancer for three years and recently returned from Germany, where she had experimental stem-cell treatment.
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Inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame by Dabney Coleman for her legendary status on screen and off screen 2003.
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Was neighbors with Tori Spelling and Aaron Spelling for 10 years.
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Was actively involved in charity work with the Cancer Society, in addition to her work against domestic violence. During her ongoing advocacy for this cause, she had participated in events such as the Humanitarian Awards in Media, anti-domestic violence panel discussions produced by Show Coalition, and had served as a board member of the National Advisory Council for the National Domestic Violence Hotline, the most effective and leading non-profit organization in America benefiting the victims of domestic violence.
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She had unusually large nipples, which added to the popularity of her iconic poster. However, during her role on the television series Charlie’s Angels 1976, the Broadcast Standards Department censors at ABC became very concerned about what they termed nipple protrusion in some of her wardrobe.
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Her iconic blonde hairstyle was worn by Lisa Robin Kelly as Laurie Forman on That ’70s Show 1998. Her swimsuit poster can also be seen frequently in Eric Foreman’s bedroom.
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Directed by four Academy Award winners: Claude Lelouch, Stanley Donen, Robert Duvall and Robert Altman.
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Actress Tricia Helfer portrayed her in the television movie Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of ‘Charlie’s Angels’ 2004.
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Attended and graduated from W.B. Ray High School in Corpus Christi, Texas 1965. Her classmates voted her most beautiful.
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Listed as Farrah Fawcett-Majors as one of 12 Promising New Actors of 1976 in John Willis’ Screen World, Vol. 28.
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Officially declared cancer-free on February 2, 2007.
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Ex-stepmother of Lee Majors II.
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Filmed an episode of Chasing Farrah 2005 at her parents’ home in Houston.
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She auditioned for the role of Julie Kotter, the wife of Gabe Kotter portrayed by Gabe Kaplan, on the ABC sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter 1975, but didn’t win the audition because the producers felt that she wouldn’t be believable as the wife of Gabe Kotter.
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Dated Arpad Busson in 1982 during a brief separation from Ryan O’Neal. Arpad was 19 and Farrah was 35.
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Resided in a 4-million-dollar mansion in Bel Air, Los Angeles which was part of her divorce settlement from Lee Majors.
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Reported to be separating from Ryan O’Neal after 17 years together.
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She had English roots two of her paternal great-grandparents, John Fawcett and Clara Flavel, were born in England, John in Hull, Yorkshire, and Clara in Sheffield, Yorkshire.
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Friends with Mela Murphy, who was also her hairdresser. Along with Ryan O’Neal and Alana Stewart, Murphy were some of the last people who were with Farrah when she died.
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Best friends with Alana Stewart. Close friends with Pat Poole.
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Family friend Farrah Forke was named after her.
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She was controversially excluded from the In Memoriam tribute at the 2010 Academy Awards, while Michael Jackson, who died the same day, was featured despite not being an actor.
