The Beauty of Retrospect: Cynthia King Week, Part Three

Cynthia King was in such great demand as a model, some advertisers couldn't get enough of her. Look at this photo from a cigarette ad s...

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Actress Mariska Hargitay

Mariska Hargitay was originally famous for her lineage; she's the daughter of actor-bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay and actress Jayne Mansfield. She established herself as an actress in her own right, as a star of NBC's "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit."

Since 1999, she's played Olivia Benson, a New York City police detective investigating sex crimes.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Television actress Joanna Garcia

Joanna Garcia is a familiar face to televison viewers, especially to CW network viewers.


She's best known for her role on Reba McEntire's namesake CW sitcom, playing Reba's daughter Cheyenne. Ms. Garcia has also been on the CW series "Privileged."

At this writing, she's set to star in "Revenge Of the Bridesmaids," a new ABC Family series.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Actress Barbara Eden

Barbara Eden is an enduring icon of Hollywood, having appears in too many movies, musicals, and television shows to list. Her most famous role, of course, was the title role in "I Dream of Jeannie," one of those fantasy sitcoms popular in the 1960s.



Her other famous role was the 1978 movie Harper Valley P.T.A., based on the country song of the same name. Barbara Eden played Stella Johnson, a provocative woman in a small town who's given a hard time by the local parent-teacher association and decides to get even with her uptight counterparts.


It was made into a TV series in which Barbara Eden reprised her role.