Written by The swimsuit worn by the late Farrah Fawcett in the iconic pinup poster too sold more as opposed to 12 million copies in 1976 was donated Wednesday to the Smithsonian Institution’s popular culture history collections, along with other items related to her career.
Longtime (LOVE) Ryan O’Neal and friend Nels Van Patten, who was at the 1976 poster shoot, got scheduled to attend the ceremony in Washington. O’Neal is the daddy of Fawcett’s son, Redmond O’Neal.
“If you got to list 10 images so are evocative of American pop culture, Farrah Fawcett is able to be one of them,” Robert Thompson, a professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University, once told The Times. “That poster became one of the defining images of the 1970s.”
Also included in the estate’s donation to the Smithsonian: an initial copy of the poster, a leather-bound book of the actress’ personal copies of scripts for the above all season of “Charlie’s Angels,” magazines with her on the cover, a Farrah doll, a Farrah jigsaw puzzle and a Farrah’s Glamour Center hairstyling toy.
Fawcett died of cancer at age 62 on June 25, 2009 — shortly before news broke the same day about Michael Jackson’s death. She won a People’s Choice Award for prefered female in a new TV demonstrate for “Angels,” then headed on to be nominated for Emmy and Golden Globe awards for try in multiple projects and also “Extremities,” “Small Sacrifices” and “The Burning Bed.”
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