Today's fun find has been in my possession for quite a while, probably about the mid-1990s when a friend gave it to me, knowing of my fascination with Gregory Harrison and some of the other folks featured. This magazine figures into a story about my meeting Gregory Harrison, which you can read here within his tribute! |
There's a wave of handsome guys on this page, one of which, Sam Jones, has a tribute here in The Underworld. |
Rona focuses on the back end for this page of photos. Tanya Tucker, Treat Williams (who I didn't recognize!) and Candy Clark are one of the last trios I'd expect to see partying together! |
We adore Stefanie Powers, always have, and there are some interesting (if a tad dramatic at times) quotes from her in this interview. |
Catherine Bach wisely opted to wear something tasteful despite her TV series' inherent tackiness. Lindsay Wagner, freshly divorced from Michael Brandon, is shown on the arm of Liza Minnelli's latest ex-husband Jack Haley Jr. (Interesting, isn't it, that Haley's father was the Tin Man and Liza's mother was Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, 1939?) Dionne Warwick's hit song at this point was "I Know I'll Never Love This Way Again." She had recently become the host of Solid Gold as well. I enjoyed seeing this latter-day photo of Miss Rita Hayworth, too. |
This page of movie star romances takes note of Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal, who did establish a long, if tormented, relationship. It also mentions Doris Day's fourth and final husband, who she divorced in 1982. Martin Mull's marriage to Sondra Baker only lasted until 1981. And Sylvester Stallone never wed Susan Anton, but he did fall for another statuesque blonde, Brigitte Nielsen, though their union only lasted from 1985-1987. |
He does come off as pretty grounded and centered in this piece (and how gorgeous he was!), but his sexual deviancy was in place at least as far back at 1973 by his own admission. |
We loved Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) and especially the camp riot The Promise (1979), which is bad at an almost science-fiction level while still being touching in some ways! |
I mean, just look at the nearly unrecognizable Kathleen Quinlan! |
This was a fun page, revealing the (somehow!) unknown to me trivia that Candy Clark and Marjoe Gortner were once man and wife! By the way, Paul Newman's movie "The Day the World Ended" was released (with a thud) as When Time Ran Out... (1980) |
Most sites I visit mention nothing about this lawsuit or the outcome of it. I wonder if there was a settlement or not. |
Here, we find Muhammad Ali sparring with his pal, recording artist Teddy Pendergrass. In 1982, Pendergrass was paralyzed from the chest down in a horrific one-car automobile accident. Did you know that his fellow passenger was a transsexual who was uninjured in the crash? I didn't. Sean Connery is lucky if he made anything off that bomb Meteor (1979)! |
Robert Walden is sort of taken to task in this article for something I feel he's right about! I do recall Jean Stapleton having a hellacious time trying to break free of her Edith typecasting. |
This color photo is the sum total of what the "Star of the Month" gets in this magazine! No article, nor even a detailed caption! |
Some fun star power on this page, from Jeff Bridges to Jack Lemmon and Peggy Lee to Gene Kelly and Jean Simmons. Gabe Ferrer and Debby Boone remain wed to this day, by the way. |
The remainder of the profile on "Hollywood's Hottest Hunks." Andrew Stevens, who we adored as a child, was divorced from Kate Jackson before the year 1980 was up! And, for the record, we hate a mustache on him! |
I LOVE Stella Stevens' helmet 'do in this photo. Dorothy Malone is also a fave of mine. I had completely forgotten about Tuesday Weld and Dudley Moore having been married! They were wed for five years and even had a son together. Tommy Sands allegedly had his career brought to a halt by Frank Sinatra after the breakup of his marriage to Nancy. |
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Terrific. I recently got a job lot of 11 issues of WHO'S WHO IN HOLLYWOOD from 1957 to 1967 - for a terrific cheap price of eBay. I had the 1966 one from 1966, so great fun to see all the other years as stars rose and fell and some passed away. I love the thumbnail sketches and mini-life stories. The covers of these Dell magazines included Debbie and Liz alternating during those late 50s/early 60s years, with Tony & Janet taking the 1959 one. Julie Andrews features on the 1966 (along with Liz and Richard) and its Julie and Sophia Loren for 1967 .... I still have not been through them all yet, but will have to do a post like yours!
It's like a time machine Poseidon. Fascinating to see who is remembered and who is not, Barbara Carrera and Candy Clark get mentioned twice! Rona and most gossip columnists were homophobic in those days, so the nasty Richard Gere comments didn't surprise me. I am sure some of her sources (Mr Guilaroff?) hung out at the very gay bars she mentions disdainfully. The two surprises were Tuesday Weld and Dudley Moore(they don't even seem like they were from the same decades), and Susan Anton and Sly Stallone. Maybe he was coaching her for "Goldengirl"?
I loved "The Promise" the most convincing makeover ever! I think it was buck teeth and a wig with bangs? what a transformation. Fabulous indeed.
Just amazing, Poseidon, that you have these gems in your possession and are able to archive them here on the web for our pleasure. I used to read these obsessively!
My biggest "wow" was to see a still-glamorous Rita Hayworth attending the Thalians benefit...apparently she never lost her beauty, even though she had already begun to have strange public episodes that were then attributed to heavy drinking, but were the start of Alzheimers. Here, she looks gorgeous, though!
Andrew Stevens was soooo adorable! Forgot he was married to Kate Jackson for a minute!
So much fun! Thank you!!
-Chris
Fantastic job remembering stars, from Christopher Atkins and Brooke Shields to Jack Lemmon and Rita Hayworth. As always, I had fun reading and I learned something new about some of them, like Richard Gere doing Bent on Broadway. And that picture of Robert Hayes in a speedo certainly made my day.
Thank you for sharing your valuable treasures with us.
Wonderful post! What a lot of info packed into a single edition. I had never heard of the Thalians - I googled them and they have a great website. I love the quote from Princess Margaret. I want a t-shirt that says "The Irish, They're Pigs"!
Michael, those magazines sound neat! That span of years is close to my favorite time in Hollywood.
Gingerguy, I agree about Tuesday and Dudley... what a bizarre match! I distinctly remember Sly Stallone and Susan Anton. She happened to hit it big just as my celebrity radar was beginning to fine-tune. None of her projects were particularly memorable (the movie "Goldengirl" in 1979 and the TV series "Cliff Hangers" that same year, anyone?), but she was omnipresent. Amazingly enough, she dated Dudley Moore, too!!! She was 8-1/2" taller than him without heels!
Angelman, this particular one was for you! I recalled that you loved Rona Barrett's magazines. I LOVED seeing that photo of Rita Hayworth, a wonderful contrast to the hideous black & white one of her in The National Enquirer struggling as she was pulled from an airplane or some such. I didn't put it in the post, but I was once told that Andrew Stevens' marriage to Kate Jackson came to an abrupt halt when he happened upon her in bed with his mother, Stella!! No clue if it's true, but the mind reels...
Armando, I'm glad you liked this! :-) It goes without saying that I, too, loved the photo of Robert Hays.
A, you're lucky I'm NORTHERN Irish! LOL We report to the Queen et al. I seem to remember a rash of remarks that the royals would let slip from time to time, causing all sorts of hubbub in print. This was the first time I'd heard of this one. I'll have to check out The Thalians sometime!! Thanks.
What a fun find! I use to read Rona's magazine faithfully years ago when I was a kid, my mother bought it and I could hardly wait for the to finish and find out the puff pieces that Miss Barrett would lob at the stars. Gregory Harrison, sigh!
Great post. I preferred Rona's mags anytime as opposed to listening to her on TV segments. She was the ET of my childhood.
Gregory Harrison was so cute and that heavy beard. Mercy!
My mum bought these mags weekly and I loved them. Very weird reading the blatantly homophohobic Gere remarks while on the cover is scantily clad Atkins.
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