Farrah Fawcett: A Life in Pictures

Farrah Fawcett actress cancer charlie's angels 1947 - 2009
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Fawcett's soaring popularity led to product endorsements, excessive tabloid coverage and more roles for the actress. After the 1979 season, she quit Charlie's Angels in order to pursue movie stardom, but met with little success. This publicity still was made to promote Sunburn, an all-but forgotten comedy-action thriller with Charles Grodin and Art Carney.

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