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The photograph was created in mid-1976 as a commissioned work for the Pro Arts poster company. Ted
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poster company, which published it as a pin-up poster the same year. With more than twelve million copies sold, it is considered the best-selling poster to date and is said to be a modern icon and a symbol of the late 1970s.
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and fellow students regarded her as the most beautiful woman on US television. Since there were no posters of her, they clipped shampoo ads from newspapers to hang them on their walls.
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of the 1940s, Fawcett's hips were narrow, and her breasts were small. While the models of the 1940s had button noses, her nose was long, thin, and prominent. In comparison with
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collector's doll which re-enacts the poster. The same year, Fawcett's family donated several objects from the property of the actress, who had died in 2009, to the
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