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Cinema: An Angel in Distress

SOMEBODY KILLED HER HUSBAND

Directed by Lamont Johnson; Screenplay by Reginald Rose

Millions of posters and magazine covers later, it is still a kick to look at Farrah Fawcett-Majors. She is not the most beautiful woman in show business, or by any means the sexiest, but her well-scrubbed cheerleader's features remain fresh and even invigorating. Whether by accident or design, she has become one of America's last old-fashioned dream girls: pretty, yet down to earth; inviting, yet wholesome. When she flashes her Cinemascope smile, men do not feel lust so much as nostalgia. Like...

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