Charlie's Angels PRINTERS-PROOF Poster FARRAH FAWCETT Kate Jackson JACLYN SMITH

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This is an ORIGINAL UNUSED Vintage Printer-Proof Poster, Direct from BI-RITE Enterprises.  It is almost 40 YEARS OLD.
It was used to test the color and registration when these posters were in production.  It is  in good shape NEVER HUNG slight edge wear.  It has some color variation and registration lines, so it's a unique pre-production item.  It is a little larger than the traditiional poster as it was used for producation purposes measuring 25" x 38"  featuring FARRAH FAWCETT,  JACLYN SMITH and KATE JACKSON.
It was one of the earliest items that was produced in 1976 during the immediate success of the series
CHARLIE'S ANGELS
Once upon a time, Jill, Sabrina & Kelly were police officers whose skills were being wasted in menial duties such as filing and answering phones. A mysterious millionaire named Charles Townsend took them away from all that by opening his own private investigation agency, and hiring these gorgeous ladies as his operatives with John Bosley acting as their assistant and liaison. The "Angels" frequently went undercover as models, strippers or cocktail waitresses in their investigations. When Jill left the agency to pursue a career in auto racing(!), she was replaced by her sister Kris. Sabrina also departed to start a family, and she was replaced by debutante Tiffany, who was then replaced by street-smart New Yorker Julie.
This poster is a unique item as it was used in the factory for color testing only!  Nice item to frame and hang!
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MORE INFO ON FARRAH FAWCETT:  Farrah Fawcett is a true Hollywood success story. A native of Texas, she is the daughter of James Fawcett and Pauline Evans. She was a natural athlete, something that her father encouraged, and she attended a high school with a strong arts program. She attended University of Texas in Austin, graduating with a degree in Microbiology, but only wanted to be an actress. Winning a campus beauty contest got her noticed by an agent, who encouraged her to pursue acting. After graduating, she moved to Los Angeles and her healthy, all-American blond beauty was immediately noticed. She quickly got roles in various television commercials for such products as Ultra-Brite toothpaste, and Wella Balsam shampoo, and also made appearances in some TV series. In 1968, she met actor
Lee Majors
, star of the popular TV series
"The Big Valley"
(1965), who became very taken with her and also used his own standing to promote her career. In 1970, she won her first major role in the film adaptation of the
Gore Vidal
novel
Myra Breckinridge
(1970). The shooting was very unpleasant, with much feuding on the set, and Farrah was embarrassed by the finished film, which was a major failure. But Farrah was undamaged and continued to win roles. In 1973, she and Majors married, and the following year, she won a recurring role in the crime series
"Harry O"
(1973). She had her first taste of major success when she won a supporting role in the science fiction film
Logan's Run
(1976). She came to the attention to the highly successful producer
Aaron Spelling
, who was impressed by her beauty and vivacious personality. That won her a role in the TV series
"Charlie's Angels"
(1976). She played a private investigator who works for a wealthy and mysterious businessman, along with two other glamorous female detectives, played by
Kate Jackson
and
Jaclyn Smith
. The show immediately became the most popular series on television, earning record ratings and a huge audience. All three actresses became very popular, but Farrah became by far the best known. She was America's sweetheart, and found herself on every celebrity magazine and pursued by photographers and fans. While she enjoyed the success and got along well with her co-stars (both of whom were also of Southern origin), she found the material lightweight. Also, the long hours she worked were beginning to take a toll on her marriage to Majors, who found himself eclipsed by her popularity. So the following year, when the show was at its peak, she left to pursue a movie career. The move drew a negative reaction from many fans. As a result of that and some poor script choices, her career briefly hit a slow spot. In addition, she and Majors separated in 1979. She had starring roles in
Somebody Killed Her Husband
(1978),
Sunburn
(1979), and
Saturn 3
(1980) but all three failed financially. She appeared in the
Burt Reynolds
chase comedy
The Cannonball Run
(1981), which was successful financially in spite of bad reviews, but her career benefited very little and she and Majors were drifting apart. In 1981, she met 'Ryan O'Neal (I)', a friend of her husband's, and they began became friends and spent a great deal of time together. In 1982, she filed for divorce, which Majors readily agreed to. Soon, she and O'Neal were a couple and moved in together. She made a major
comeback
when she starred in the searing story of a battered wife in
The Burning Bed
(1984) (TV), based on a true story. It garnered a very large audience, and critics gave her the best reviews she had ever received for her heartfelt performance. She nominated for both an Emmy and Golden Globe and also became involved in helping organizations for battered women. The following year, she and O'Neal became the parents of a son, 'Redmond O'Neal (I)'. She tried to continue her momentum with a starring role in
Extremities
(1986), but while she garnered some positive reviews, the show was not well-received. She continued to seek out serious roles, appearing mainly on television. She scored success again in
Small Sacrifices
(1989) (TV), again based on a true crime. Portraying an unhappy woman who is so obsessed with the man she loves that she shoots her children to make herself available and disguises it as a carjacking, Farrah again won rave reviews and helped draw a large audience, and was nominated for an Emmy again. Shortly after-wards, she and O'Neal co-starred in
"Good Sports"
(1991), playing a couple who co-star in a sports news program, but O'Neil's performance was lambasted and only 9 episodes were aired. In 1995, she surprised her fans by posing for "Playboy" at the age of 48 ad it became the magazine's best-selling issue of that decade. Her relationship with O'Neal was deteriorating, however, and in 1997, they broke up. The breakup took a toll, and at that time she received very bad publicity when she appeared on
"Late Show with David Letterman"
(1993) and gave a rambling interview, sparking rumors of drug use. That same year, however, she made another
comeback
in
The Apostle
(1997), playing the neglected wife of a Pentacostal preacher, played by
Robert Duvall
. Both stars were praised and the film became a surprise hit. She also began dating producer
James Orr
. But after she turned down his marriage proposal in 1998, he severely beat her and the scandal drew nationwide headlines. She immediately broke off all ties with him and he was charged and sentenced for assault. Embarrassed, she lowered her profile and her career lost momentum, but she continued to work in television and films. She and O'Neal also started seeing each other again, although it didn't last. In 2004, she received her third Emmy nomination for her performance in
The Guardian
(2003), but has experienced tragedy since then. In early 2006, she was devastated when her beloved mother died. Later that year, she was diagnosed with cancer and O'Neal, with whom she remains close in spite of their breakup, was diagnosed with leukemia. On February 2, 2007, her 60th birthday, it was revealed that she was now cancer free. She continues to be a successful and important part of the entertainment industry.
MORE INFO ON KATE JACKSON:  Lucy Kate Jackson (born October 29, 1948) is an American actress,
director
and
producer
, known for her television roles as
Sabrina Duncan
in the 1970s series
Charlie's Angels
(1976 -79) and Amanda King in the 1980s series
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
(1983 -87). Her film roles include
Making Love
(1982) and
Loverboy
(1989). She is a three-time
Emmy Award
nominee and four-time
Golden Globe Award
nominee.
Jackson began her career in the late 1960s in
summer stock
, before landing her first major television roles in
Dark Shadows
(1970 - 71) and
The Rookies
(1972 -76). She also appeared in the film
Night of Dark Shadows
(1971). The huge success of her role as Sabrina Duncan saw her appear on the front cover of
Time
magazine, alongside co-stars
Farrah Fawcett
and
Jaclyn Smith
, while her role as Mrs. King won her Germany's
Bravo Golden Otto Award
for Best Female TV Star three times (1986 - 88). She went on to star in the short-lived television adaptation of the film
Baby Boom
(1988 - 89). She has continued to star in numerous TV movies, including
Quiet Killer
(1992),
Empty Cradle
(1993) and
Satan's School for Girls
(2000), a remake of the 1973 TV movie
of the same name
in which she also starred.
Jackson was born in
Birmingham, Alabama
, the daughter of Ruth (Shepherd) and Hogan Jackson, a business executive. She attended
The Brooke Hill School for Girls
while residing in
Mountain Brook
and then went on to the
University of Mississippi
, where she was a member of the Delta Rho chapter of the
Kappa Kappa Gamma
sorority
, but during her sophomore year at the University of Mississippi, she moved to
New York City
to study acting at the
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
.
Jackson worked as an
NBC
page at the network's
Rockefeller Center
studios and did
summer stock
at the Stowe Playhouse in
Stowe, Vermont
before landing a role as the mysterious, silent ghost Daphne Harridge on the 1960s
supernatural
daytime quasi-
soap opera
Dark Shadows
. In 1971, Jackson had a starring role as Tracy Collins in
Night of Dark Shadows
, the second feature film based on the daytime serial. She was joined by her
Dark Shadows
castmates
Lara Parker
,
David Selby
,
Grayson Hall
,
Nancy Barrett
,
John Karlen
, and
Thayer David
. This movie was more loosely based on the series than
House of Dark Shadows
was, and it did not fare as well at the box office as the first film did. The same year, she worked with
James Stewart
in two episodes of the short-lived sitcom,
The Jimmy Stewart Show
.
She then appeared as nurse Jill Danko, wife of a character played by
Sam Melville
, for four seasons on the 1970s
crime drama
The Rookies
. A supporting cast member, Jackson filled her free time by studying directing and editing. She also appeared in several TV films during this period. Jackson's performance was well received in the 1972
independent film
Limbo
, one of the first theatrical films to address the
Vietnam War
and the wives of soldiers who were
POWs
,
MIA
or killed in action (KIA). She also appeared in an all-star ensemble cast in
Death Scream
, a 1975 television dramatization of the circumstances surrounding a real-life 1964 murder as reported in a sensational article in
The New York Times
. Jackson hosted the
thirteenth episode of season four
of
Saturday Night Live
which aired in February 1979. During her monologue, she referred to being an NBC page ten years earlier where she did tours of the studio.
In 1975, Jackson met with
Rookies
producers
Aaron Spelling
and
Leonard Goldberg
to discuss her contractual obligation to star in another television series for Spelling/Goldberg Productions upon that show's cancellation. Goldberg told her of a series that was available—because "every network has passed on it",
The Alley Cats
. Spelling said that when he told Jackson the title of the series had to be changed and asked her what she would like to call it, she replied,
Charlie's Angels
, pointing to a picture of three female angels on the wall behind Spelling. Jackson was originally cast as Kelly Garrett (which ultimately went to her co-star
Jaclyn Smith
), but decided upon Sabrina Duncan instead. The huge success of the show saw Jackson, Smith and
Farrah Fawcett-Majors
(who played Jill Munroe) appear on the front cover of
Time
magazine. The show aired as a
movie of the week
on March 21, 1976 before debuting as a series on September 22, 1976.
At the beginning of the third season of
Charlie's Angels
, Jackson was offered the
Meryl Streep
role in the feature film
Kramer vs Kramer
(1979), but was forced to turn it down because Spelling told her that they were unable to rearrange the hit show's shooting schedule to give her time off to do the film. At the end of the third season, Jackson left the show saying, "I served it well and it served me well, now it's time to go." She was replaced by
Shelley Hack
.
Jackson starred opposite her
Rookies
co-star,
Michael Ontkean
, and
Harry Hamlin
in the feature film
Making Love
(1982), directed by
Arthur Hiller
. It was a movie some considered to be ahead of its time, and attempted to deal sensitively with the topic of homosexuality. However, it received tepid reviews and did poorly at the box office.
In 1983, Jackson accepted the starring role in
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
, a one-hour action drama in which she played housewife Amanda King opposite
Bruce Boxleitner
's spy, code-named "Scarecrow". Jackson also co-produced the series with
Warner Brothers Television
through her production company, Shoot the Moon Enterprises. It was during this series that she developed a keen interest in directing. When asked on the set one afternoon "What do you do tomorrow?", Jackson replied, "I don't work, I just direct."
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
was on the air from 1983- 87.
During filming of the show's fourth season, in January 1987, Jackson elected to receive a
mammogram
for the first time, a test which led to the diagnosis of a small
malignant tumor
.
Receiving a "clean bill of health", Jackson followed up the cancelled
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
by taking on the main role in
Baby Boom
, a 1988 TV
sitcom
version of the
original movie
starring
Diane Keaton
, but it lasted only one season.
In 1989, she starred in the film
Loverboy
playing
Patrick Dempsey
's mother. She had taken the job in order to work with the director,
Joan Micklin Silver
, having admired the work Silver had done on the film
Hester Street
.
Jackson starred in several TV movies over the next several years, while working for breast cancer awareness. In 1995, on the heels of a night filming schedule on location, she checked herself into an Alabama hospital for tests due to a feeling of malaise and an inability to sleep. After several tests, Dr. Gerald Pohost, now head of
cardiology
at U.S.C., diagnosed that Jackson had been born with an
atrial septal defect
, a tiny hole in her heart which had previously gone undetected despite Jackson's active lifestyle. She underwent
open heart surgery
to correct the defect, although as cardiologist Dr. P. K. Shah related in a February 3, 2006, appearance with Jackson on
Larry King Live
, the current treatment no longer involves surgery.
Jackson has dedicated herself to speaking out on the subjects of breast cancer and heart health and in 2003, was awarded the "Power of Love" award by the
American Heart Association
for her work.
In 2004, the television film
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels
aired, with actress
Lauren Stamile
portraying Jackson. In August 2006, Jackson,
Farrah Fawcett
and
Jaclyn Smith
, the three original Angels, appeared together in a surprise appearance at the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards in a tribute to the recently deceased Angels creator, Aaron Spelling,
Shrine Auditorium
.
In 2007, Jackson played Elizabeth Prentiss, the mother of FBI Agent Emily Prentiss (played by
Paget Brewster
) on
Criminal Minds
. In August 2008, she was a guest judge on an episode of
Jaclyn Smith
's
Bravo
reality
series
Shear Genius
, presiding over a hairdressing competition to update the original trio's signature hairdos.
On August 3, 2010, it was announced that Jackson would be writing a memoir, to be published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster. Titled
The Smart One
, the book was originally scheduled to be released on October 11, 2011, was delayed to February 1, 2015, and delayed yet again to December 30, 2020.
MORE INFO ON JACLYN SMITH:  Jaclyn Smith was born Jacquelyn Ellen Smith on October 26, 1945 in Houston, Texas. She graduated from high school and originally aspired to be a famous ballerina. In 1973, she landed a job as a Breck shampoo model. In 1976, she was offered a chance to star in a new pilot for a planned television series, entitled "Charlie's Angels" (1976). The pilot was slick and the show was an instant hit when it debuted on September 22, 1976 on ABC. Smith has the distinct honor of being the only Angel *not* to leave the show in its entire five-season run (1976-1981). After "Charlie's Angels" (1976), she went the TV-movie route and starred in such TV films as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1981) (TV), and such miniseries as The Bourne Identity (1988) (TV), Rage of Angels (1983) (TV) and Windmills of the Gods (1988) (TV). She has had her own extremely successful clothing line at KMart since 1985, and is often a spokesperson. She has two children from her third marriage to Anthony B. Richmond (they divorced in 1989).
MORE INFO ON CHERYL LADD:  Cheryl Ladd (born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor; July 12, 1951) is an American actress, singer, and author. Ladd is best known for her role as Kris Munroe in the ABC television series Charlie's Angels, hired amid a swirl of publicity prior to its second season in 1977 to replace the departing Farrah Fawcett-Majors. Ladd remained with the show until its cancellation in 1981.
Ladd was born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor in Huron, South Dakota, the second daughter of Dolores (Katz), a waitress, and Marion Stoppelmoor (1929 -2001), a railroad engineer. She married fellow actor David Ladd, with whom she had a daughter, Jordan. She took his surname as her own, which she kept after their divorce.
She has been married to music producer Brian Russell since 1981, and has a stepdaughter, Lindsay Russell. Ladd is a celebrity ambassador for the child abuse prevention and treatment non-profit Childhelp.
Ladd initially came to Hollywood in 1970 to begin a career in music (she was known as "Cherie Moor" when she was the singing voice of Melody on Hanna-Barbera's Josie and the Pussycats animated series).  She soon began to land non-singing roles in commercials and episodic television—including guest appearances on shows such as The Rookies, The Partridge Family and Happy Days. The Charlie's Angels series made her an overnight star, and Ladd took the opportunity of her sudden popularity to further pursue her musical interests, guest-starring in musical-comedy variety series and specials, performing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl XIV in January 1980, and releasing three albums, enjoying a Top 40 Billboard Hot 100 single and a Gold record. In September 2000, Ladd starred on Broadway, taking over the title role from Bernadette Peters in a revival of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun. She played the role until January 2001, when Reba McEntire took over.
Following Charlie's Angels, Ladd remained a familiar face on television and has starred in more than 30 made for television films, including as Grace Kelly, the Philadelphia heiress who became a Hollywood glamour girl and then a European princess, in a biopic that was begun shortly before Kelly's death. She also starred in feature films such as Purple Hearts, Millennium, Poison Ivy and Permanent Midnight. Ladd had the lead role in the television series One West Waikiki (1994–96), and made guest appearances in other TV shows such as Charmed, Hope and Faith and CSI: Miami. From 2003 until the show's cancellation in 2008, Ladd played Jillian Deline, the wife of the lead character Ed Deline (James Caan), in 29 episodes of the television drama Las Vegas.
In 1996, Ladd published a children's book, The Adventures of Little Nettie Windship. In 2005, she published Token Chick: A Woman’s Guide to Golfing With the Boys, an autobiographical book which focused on her love of golf. For several years, Ladd hosted a golf tournament sponsored by Buick.
On April 17, 2010, Ladd, along with her co-angel, Jaclyn Smith, accepted the "2010 TV Land Pop Culture Award" for Charlie's Angels.
In 2010, Ladd filmed a TV movie titled Love's Everlasting Courage for the Hallmark Channel, which aired on October 1, 2011. That same month, she guest starred on NCIS in the show's ninth season episode "Thirst" as the love interest of medical examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard. In December 2011, she guest starred in an episode of Chuck, playing Sarah Walker's mother.
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