Sharon Farrell

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Let's read what good old Member "Berigan" had to say all the way back in 2011, in the fifth post of this entirely brief thread:

Originally Posted by berigan

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First photo was Poldyvirag's, from Post #3

Seeing that first image in poldyvirag's post above, damn! What a body! I wonder even though she could be sexy, if she didn't want to push that at times??? She did nudity, but I believe it was all after the age of 40.
We are just lucky to have her around at all!
Farrell's career was tragically interrupted when her heart stopped beating for four minutes during childbirth. She incurred brain damage, and was virtually unable to read, write, or memorize. After extensive sessions of re-learning, Sharon returned to acting in the early 1970s, her work load increasing as her recovery progressed.

Here is one of several sources for that last passage, with extra biographical information. Since her only child, actor Chance Boyer, was born on August of 1970, you may get a better idea of when she suffered with this affliction. She wasn't out of action for long, however, judging by her IMDb filmography. Ms. Farrell was able to act in an episode of THE NAME OF THE GAME that aired in mid-January of 1971, to be followed by a part in JACQUELINE SUSANN’S THE LOVE MACHINE that was released months later. This must have been the most miraculous recovery.
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The actress as she appeared on the aforementioned THE NAME OF THE GAME
episode, entitled "LA 2017"; the show took an unusual sci-fi bent as hero Gene
Barry, pictured above, awakens in the far-off future year of 2017 only to find
an environmental catastrophe has taken place, where toxic algae has killed all
life, forcing humans to live underground in a police state. Sharon played a
"tragic pawn" who offers herself sexually to lucky Gene Barry. The episode
was directed by Steven Spielberg.

(Just to make sure you caught on, although Berigan provided plenty'a photos in his post, as with the second one you see in the "Quote" box above — which I have singled out for its text — the first photo came from the post that Berigan referred to, as offered by Member "Poldyvirag." I made sure to provide the photo so that you don't have to go through the trouble of checking on the first page. See? Don't ever say I didn't do nothin' for you. By the way, sure was a remarkable story about the "amnesia," wasn't it?)

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What's above are my photos, as I later noticed they were included
in Berigan's set from Post #5. Reference for the first one with Vince
Edwards will be made below. These shots from twelve years ago
were of poorer quality, and Berigan specifically mentioned how he
wished for the second one "in the black dress" to be bigger & better.
(I thought it was the second, but now I see he may have been
referring to the first. Nevertheless, both shots are now improved.)

Berigan next gifted us with his entertainingly written Post #9 from 2015, where he addressed a promise he had made in 2012's Post #7 which was thus far undelivered. He did provide a clip in that ninth post which astoundingly still works; I've consistently noticed "Mediafire" has durability, after many years. By the way, to save you the trouble of reading that second image's text: Oh, Boy... Just yell "Boy" at honey-haired Sharon Farrell, and she's bound to come a-running. Reason? TV directors keep casting her in such tomboy roles as a hot-rodder and newspaper copyboy. But still... 'Sharon is Quite A Girl.' Whatever magazine this article was from, as to be read in Berigan's follow-up image, ended with the line: "She's a girl's girl." (I'd say the girly shots below lend weight to the claim.)


At the "Sharon Farrell Fashion Show" on April 14, 1993 in New York City. (Photo by Ron Galella.)
Next, at the 12th Annual Soap Opera Digest Awards on February 14, 1996 in Beverly Hills. She
comes across as a fun woman who loves the camera almost as much as the camera loves her.
Now in that last photo, Ms. Farrell showed up at the United Jewish Fund Gala Honoring George
Burns on April 5, 1992 at California's Century Plaza Hotel.

Our lady, the "honey-haired" Sharon Farrell, sure got around romantically. She was married nine times. (As comparison, the famously multi-wedded Mickey Rooney was hitched a paltry eight times.)


Sharon Farrell attends "Evening Under the Harvest Moon Benefit for Tree People" on Sept. 28, 1991
in Mulholland, California; in the second shot, she graced the CBS TV Press Tour on July 18, 1992 at
the Century Plaza Hotel. Finally, making Eydie Gorme, wife of Steve Lawrence, jealous at that United
Jewish Fund Benefit Gala honoring George Burns on April 5, 1992 (last two photos by Ron Galella).

I don't know how accurate this article is (they already blew it by mixing our Sharon up with another Sharon Farrell, so buyer beware), but after mentioning several husbands (one was appealing actor Andrew Prine), they offered: "Sharon Farrell has been in relationships with Dale Trevillion (1975 – 2006) [Note: this wasn't a "relationship," but a marriage with the director-writer-producer, who associate-produced Sharon's THE PREMONITION from 1975, the year they were wed. Note how the union lasted for over thirty years], Bruce Lee (1969), Steve McQueen (1969), Robert Vaughn (1965), Vince Edwards (1962 – 1964), Dean Stockwell (1962) and Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara (1959)." (Che knew being a revolutionary can help you get girls.)


When Ben Casey had access to Sharon,
did Vince Edwards think "the doctor is in"?

Do you remember the photo caption a few paragraphs ago when I wrote how the photo with Vince Edwards would soon be referenced? Well, here we go! (See, I keep my promises.) Above is another picture of our lady with Vince Edwards (famed for his role as the brooding neurosurgeon from Ben Casey), and I believe their canoodling period of the early 1960s would be reliable. (The "Getty Images" text that accompanied what is above claimed the shot was from around 1955, when Sharon was fifteen-years-old. It's disappointing to keep encountering times "Getty Images" can't always be trusted, as I have seen time and again.)



Another conquest of Sharon's was (according to what is above, anyway) Robert Vaughn, and they probably met when Sharon appeared in 1964's "The Double Affair" first-season episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (which was edited to form part of the theatrical U.N.C.L.E. film from 1965, The Spy with My Face. Sharon would come on board for two additional episodes, in 1966 and 1967, presumably after the love affair with Vaughn was over.



According to the gossipy British rag The Daily Mail, Bruce Lee "walked up to Farrell in the MGM studio parking and charmed her into bed." The following are purported to be direct quotations from Sharon: "He was the first man I had ever been with who had such a beautiful body... Those abs — his muscles were so defined, it was as if they were chiseled. Bruce was the most incredible lover I've ever been with. He was just so knowledgeable about a woman's body... He would say: 'I'm coming over' and drag me into the bedroom... Bruce took me to the moon and back. He just turned me inside out." Sharon also is said to have stated that she left Lee to be with Steve McQueen, because the latter "was successful — he was my protector. I was in lust with Steve, but Bruce was the love of my life."

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Bruce "didn't have a pot to pee in," she added (also complaining he was married, but so was Steve), whereas
McQueen was a superstar. So let that be a lesson: It doesn't matter how skilled a lover you may be. These are
from 1969's underrated The Reivers, and Sharon played a hooker who was being wooed by McQueen. Last photo
is of Bruce Lee from MARLOWE, playing a formidable opponent to the private eye. Sharon was also in this film,
shots from which will be coming up, but the two did not share a scene together.

Let's now get a better idea as to the films and TV shows Sharon found herself in. You've got to hand it to her for having a very long and prolific career (amassing over one hundred credits) when she first appeared in a TV show (under her birth name of Forsmoe, which was spelled as Forsmo) in 1959 (although she really got going in 1961), and kept at it for the next four decades until she reached the age of fifty-nine in 1999.



After over one decade in dormancy, she had a last hurrah with two episodes of a TV series playing a grandma, in 2013 and 2014. The photo from above should give a good idea as to what she looked like in the latter year at age seventy-four, when Ms. Farrell attended the 5th Annual Indie Series Awards held at El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood. The actress has been in ten TV movies, beginning with 1964's The Movie Maker (which had big stars, and yet is oddly obscure) to 1995's Yakuza Connection. In 1970, her second TV movie was Quarantined, a low-rent disaster film where a hospital crew copes with a cholera epidemic. Gary Collins (pictured below) was the main hero, and Sharon made for a very pretty patient.




Another TV film was The Eyes of Charles Sand (1972), an unsold TV-pilot where Sharon played an agitated woman who kept seeing her dead brother, and the hero who has visions is there to help; the following "non-sequitur" photo from below illustrates Sharon (apparently) taking time off for good causes, in this instance attending the "National Society of Austistic Children Celebrity Fashion Show" on April 11, 1981 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, with actor Mark Withers. (Ron "I'm everywhere" Galella took the picture.)

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The in-demand Sharon Farrell kept working constantly during her "babe" period, and two of her jobs were with The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. In 1964's "The Final Verdict," she appeared with Martin Landau, playing the lawyer to the marvelous Frank Gorshin, who gets bent out of shape when his flirtatious and sexy wife (Sharon) gets noticed by other men.


Landau's conscience does not allow him to defend people who may actually be criminals; his clients have got to be innocent.

A good samaritan driver gets stranded in the sticks, needing to stay in the creepy motel that is run by a one-time vaudevillian with a teen-aged fiancée (Sharon), in the suspenseful "Final Performance" from 1965.


The good guy picks up the hitchhiking girl, but to his chagrin, she can be full of surprises.


Here are some publicity stills for 1969's Marlowe, where James Garner played the title role:



Sharon's opponent in the boxing match was the beautiful Gayle Hunnicutt (who deservedly has a VEF thread). Since there isn't a man alive who can resist a good catfight, I had to seek the film, resulting in the following screencaps:










A year earlier, Sharon was in another detective movie, A Lovely Way to Die. She played the pretty maid who provides special services to her wealthy boss who is married to the very lovely Sylvia Koscina. Kirk Douglas is the private dick who is irresistible to all women.




In 1974, Sharon appeared in the fun cult film directed by the talented Larry Cohen, It's Alive. She was the unstable mother who delivered a killer mutant baby.


With the director and the temperamental brat, in the last photo. Man in middle is (husband) John P. Ryan, whose acting was first-rate.


In 1975, Sharon landed a challenging role in another horror feature film, The Premonition. Again, she portrayed a mother who was emotionally distraught when the psychotic birth mother came a'knocking to claim Sharon's adopted child.





During this period, Sharon put in an appearance in TV horror, with the "Chopper" episode from 1975's Kolchak: The Night Stalker. She let loose with a hammy (but entertaining) performance as the widow of a biker, whose gang is being stalked by a "headless horseman" on wheels.




While her role in 1984's Night of the Comet was minor, Sharon's portrayal of a wicked stepmother was memorable, in this fine tongue-in-cheek end-of-the-world flick where two Valley Girls contend with zombies.



The younger stepdaughter (Kelli Maroney, nineteen at the time) gets a knuckle sandwich from Sharon.


I didn't intend to download Berigan's Man from Atlantis episode from Post #9, but when I tested the old "Mediafire" file to see if it still worked, the episode landed in my directory. Thus, these screen caps.


With Patrick Duffy and Billy Barty. 1978's "Deadly Carnival" was the last episode of the short-lived series.


Although thirty-eight, Sharon was still being convincingly cast in the "babe" role.


Sharon played a bartender (without much screen time, but she shined with her performance) in the action movie One Man Force (1989), starring man-mountain and former football player John Matuszak; he looks out for her and her son, while going renegade (as an ex-cop seeking revenge for his killed partner). The bad guys get doled serious shares of mayhem.




Come the 1990s, our lady was past the half-century mark and (as to be expected) had to contend with character parts. William Forsythe enjoyed a rare lead role in the straight-to-video Beyond Desire (1995). As an ex-con who seeks to get the man who framed him, the anti-pretty boy actually has a lovemaking scene with the delightful Kari Wuhrer, playing a Vegas call girl. Sharon is the madam-type in charge of the working females.




In the last shot, Sharon expressed her displeasure with Kari Wuhrer's character


Sharon was somewhat displaying her frontal fun bags in the film from above, but what about outright nudity? When he began this thread in 2007, Member "MoPy" borrowed an image from the "Uncle Scoopy" site (the handiwork of "Tuna") giving a taste of our lady finally providing a peek of the goods.



Out of the Blue (1980) is basically a story about a girl who has a demented ex-con for a dad (Dennis Hopper) and a junkie for a mom (Sharon), and tries to find ways to cope. In the nude scene, Hopper's supposed friend (played by Steve McQueen's bud Don Gordon) makes a play for the wife. Sharon pulled off a fine performance. She was forty, and kindly consented to put a mammary out on (very brief) view.

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The gloriously busty last shot was featured above, and is being repeated here because it was a publicity still from this film.


First photo, second row: "Dig We Must."


When Sharon was fifty-one, she provided another glimpse (again, very brief) in Lonely Hearts (1991), as the lover of con man Eric Roberts; later, she will find she's being cheated on with the lovely and lonely Beverly D'Angelo, and the scene is rough.





(Seems our lady was going for a "Dyan Cannon" look during this time.)



At Zuma Beach, Malibu (Photos by Michael Levin).


At the end of this year, Sharon Farrell will be eighty-three-years-old.

















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