The Women Celebrities Who Rocked the ‘70s!

Published on 02/23/2021
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Maureen McCormick

Everyone who watched television in the 1970s will remember The Brady Bunch and have a special part of their heart saved for the show. McCormick, of course, will always be remembered for playing Marcia Brady, when she really demonstrated her talents. But the Brady Bunch was by no means the end of the line for McCormick, who also dabbled in theater, playing Rizzo in Grease on Broadway for example. More recently, McCormick has also appeared in a number of reality television shows such as Dancing with the Stars and I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!

Maureen McCormick

Maureen McCormick

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Linda Evans

Linda Evans became a prominent actress thanks to her role as Audra Barkley in The Big Valley which aired between 1965 and 1969. Growing up in Hollywood, Evans says she actually took acting lessons as a method for ‘curing her shyness’ – it seems to have worked! Throughout the 1970s, Evans appeared in countless television shows, until she was cast in the soap opera Dynasty, a role for which she also won a Golden Globe for. A little fun fact not many people know, Evans was actually recruited by her then-husband, John Derek, to operate one of the cameras filming Evel Knievel doing his daredevil jump, and Evans captured some of the iconic images of the devastating crash.

Linda Evans

Linda Evans

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