With blonde hair tumbling down over her shoulders, perfect teeth and sensational figure, Farrah Fawcett swept to fame during the 1970s as America’s No 1 pin-up. A poster in which she wore a red one-piece swimsuit sold six million copies in a few months and made her one of the best-known faces, and bodies, in the country.
In the same year (1976) she was a founder member of Charlie’s Angels, a glossy piece of television escapism in which she was one of a trio of impossibly glamorous women solving crimes for an unseen boss. Fawcett, billed as Fawcett-Majors after her marriage to the actor Lee Majors, played the sporty, giggly Jill Munroe.
The poster made her a millionaire and Charlie’s Angels gave her even more