Jaclyn Smith; Farrah Fawcett; Kate Jackson
Now on HBO Max: the feature film Charlie Wilson's War.
On Netflix: American Hustle
and Fatal Attraction.
Very well-made movies.
Actress Amy Adams is in both "Charlie Wilson" and "Hustle."
--------------------------------------------- Have been studying "behind-the-scenes" type shows on You Tube about the seventies TV series Charlie's Angels.
Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg were the producers who created the show.
Recently I had discovered a 1965 series about a woman detective, Honey West - come to find out, Aaron Spelling was behind that, too. It said in one of the documentaries, "Honey West was ahead of her time."
Spelling tries the woman detective idea in 1965 and it doesn't do well - then he tries it again in 1976, and there you go -- it is a big hit.
Actresses who portrayed the original "Angels" --
Farrah Fawcett
Jaclyn Smith
Kate Jackson
Jaclyn Smith was on the series for all five seasons that it ran.
Farrah Fawcett left after only one year, and was replaced by Cheryl Ladd, an actress who came from Huron, South Dakota. (In Huron there was a restaurant called The Barn, and it had photographs up on the wall of Cheryl Ladd, celebrating that a local person had made it in Hollywood.)
When Kate Jackson left the show after the third year, Shelley Hack was put into the show. And the next year Shelley Hack was replaced by Tanya Roberts.
(Shelley Hack appeared in Woody Allen's film, Annie Hall. You can see her clip on You Tube:
Annie Hall - The Happy Couple !
uploader / channel: The Best Movies
"I'm very shallow and empty, and I have no ideas - and - nothing interesting to say!" lol)
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July 1975, a 90-minute pilot for Charlie's Angels was filmed.
There was, however, still some doubt of the show ever making it to the airwaves.
Aaron Spelling said later in an interview, "The network had this stupid thing about, 'Women can't carry a series.'"
Leonard Goldberg: "They were really worried about women doing action / adventure."
One commenter called Farrah Fawcett's rapidly exploding fame and popularity at the time "a Farrah frenzy."
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