You know you're getting old when...
...you discover that one of our favourite super-cool divas, Miss Angie Dickinson (remarkably) blows out 95 candles on her cake today!
As a kid in the middle of the 1970s, with power cuts, hyper-inflation and general pessimism in the UK, I loved settling down to watch some preposterous American cop show for escapism [Columbo, Banacek, Cannon, Starsky & Hutch and so on] - and Police Woman was one of the best. I often dreamed what it would be like to live in Angie Dickinson/"Pepper Anderson"'s glamorous world of sleek Halston outfits, Martini cocktails and "woman-in-peril" missions. Sigh.
By way of a little tribute, the classic theme music - and those legs:
...but who knew she sang [after a fashion]? I suppose, married as she was for years to Mr Burt Bacharach, it was unavoidable:
Many happy returns, Angeline "Angie" Dickinson (born 30th September 1931)
She's still going! https://www.thevintagenews.com/2023/06/26/angie-dickinson/
ReplyDeleteI know! Jx
DeleteI loved police woman , older peppy wasn’t a glam teen , she was a mature tough woman , I loved that
ReplyDeleteThat's what made it so compelling - her strength of character - and Ms Dickinson made her special. Jx
DeleteHappy 95th to Ms. Dickinson! I hope she's well.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
Oh, me too! She's a trouper... Jx
DeleteLook at Angie feeling the music! I loved Burt Bacharach‘s style. That number should have been a Monday song!
ReplyDeleteMy mother loved Police Woman but didn’t understand why everyone wanted Angie Dickenson’s hair at the time. She said it was dry and strawlike and needed better styling! I think I had the hots for the actor with the broken nose.
If that was to make it to a Tacky Music Monday slot, it would probably be the saintly Bobbie Gentry version - all big hair and big false lashes!
DeleteAngie was so much more than just a hairdo... And as I recall, most of the male cast on that show had broken noses, didn't they? Jx
The one I liked was: Charles Dierkop
DeleteHeavens! I always thought like he should have been in The Muppet Show with a face like that... Jx
DeleteIt can't be so. I never hear anything about her. I am off to see how she is faring....
ReplyDeleteAt 95, I think the lady has every right to retire... 😍 Jx
DeleteI was wild about her partner in Policewoman, Earl Holliman
ReplyDelete...who kept the fact he was gay a secret, right up until his husband was the one to break the news of his death. Jx
DeleteAmazing, who would have thought se was still going - good on ya Girl !
ReplyDeleteIt's remarkable, indeed, to discover who else born in the same year as Angie is still going - Rita Moreno, William Shatner, Barbara Eden, Mamie Van Doren, Claire Bloom, Virginia McKenna and Barbara Bain among them... There was something in the water. Jx
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