Farrah Fawcett Dies of Cancer

Farrah Fawcett, 62, golden-haired sex symbol of the late 1970s.After a long battle with cancer Farrah Fawcett died at 9:28 AM today. Ryan ONeal and Alana Stewart were at her bedside when she passed away. Her son Redmond was not present as he is currently in jail. She is most remembered for her appearance on bedroom posters and the detective series "Charlie's Angels" and who later found a niche portraying troubled women in made-for-television dramas, according to The Washingtion Post, died today at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif., of cancer.

Ms. Fawcett was a Texas-born college dropout who parlayed success as a model for toiletries such as Ultra Brite toothpaste and Wella Balsam shampoo into a viable acting career.

Considered to be a mystery til now, she achieved two iconic roles at the same time in 1976. On Wednesday nights, she was Jill Munroe, the blond Angel on the ABC detective drama produced by Aaron Spelling. The rest of the week, she was the star attraction on a poster that sold a record 12 million copies. Haloed by the curls of her impossibly buoyant curly hair, wearing a red swimsuit that left little to the imagination, she entered the dreams of adolescent boys everywhere and brought women into hair salons to copy her style.

Ms. Fawcett, With her radiant sexuality, became the breakout star of "Charlie's Angels," appearing in such suggestive episodes as "Angels in Chains," where she and her beautiful co-detectives -- played by Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith -- went undercover on a chain gang. The show's tone led to its nickname: "Jiggle TV."

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