Groovy Icons In Pop Culture History We Can't Get Enough Of...

By | December 10, 2017

Leigh Taylor-Young co-starred with Edward G Robinson and Charlton Heston in the film Soylent Green 1973

Remember when westerns and science fiction were the most popular genres on television? And when Sonny & Cher were still a duo? Back when music and fashion somehow always seemed to grow and change together? Collected here are memories of the groovy beginnings of some of the most beloved icons in popular culture. 

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Pictured here is the lovely stage, screen, and radio actress, Leigh Taylor-Young. She got her first big break in 1966 when she was cast as Rachel Welles on the primetime soap opera Peyton Place. But it was her performance as Shirl, the "furniture" girl, in the science fiction classic Soylent Green (1973) that she will probably always be best known for.

She co-starred along with Edward G Robinson and Charlton Heston in the post-apocalyptic science fiction thriller. The storyline is loosely based on the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, which combines both the police procedural and science fiction genres and is set in a dystopian future. It won the Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film in 1973.

Diana Dors love of films began when her mother took her to local movie theaters. Seeing the actresses on screen, at the age of three she wanted to be an actress.

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Diana Dors was an actress and singer promoted as the 'English Marilyn Monroe'. According to Dors, her love of films began when her mother took her to local movie theaters. After seeing the actresses on screen, at the age of three, she new wanted to be an actress one day, and act she did. In addition to working in sexy comedies and risqué modeling, Dors was famous for hosting headline-worthy private parties.

She later gained popularity as a chat-show guest and there’s a bit of a mystery surrounding all her riches. She allegedly left it all for her son in her will but a secret password was required. The code was left with her husband actor Alan Lake, but after Lake committed suicide and the code was lost forever…. As is her fortune it seems.