#1970s jane

[littlequeenies]

November 7th, 1978

Jane Asher before cutting her long red hair for the lead role of Peter Pan on the London stage She opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre starting on December 20th, 1978. 

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Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek in, '3 Women,' 1977

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Jane Birkin / photo by Pompeo Posar for Playboy, November 1970.

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These Boots are made for walkin'

Brigitte Bardot, Mireille Darc, Jane Birkin, Marisa Mell, France Gall, Debbie Harry, Sylvie Vartan, Kate Bush, Françoise Hardy & Nancy Sinatra

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jane seymour photographed by terry o’neill, 1973

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Je t'aime moi non plus (1976)

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Jane Birkin par Tony Frank, 1970s.

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Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin with their daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg in London, 1971.

Photos by Tony Frank

[littlequeenies]

Why Do We Love...

Jane Asher

I first knew about Jane Asher when I was a teenager. We really loved The Beatles since we were little, and at the time The Spice Girls, the Back Street Boyd and Britney Spears started to be popular among our classmates, me and my sister stuck to The Beatles (Queen, Guns'N'Roses, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith...)

[Jane and Paul at the 'How I Won the War' premiere, October 1967]

By then, we knew about Linda, Cynthia and Yoko. but one day, at our granny's, she had these magazines about gossip, and there was an article about an upcoming biography about Paul McCartney. In the same article there was this black and white photo of Paul and Jane at How I Won the War film premiere and said "At 25, Paul had a romance with stage actress, red-haired Jane Asher".

RED HAIRED STAGE ACTRESS you said?

[Jane in 1965]

I LOVED stage and I LOVED red hair!! (I still do!!!). So I memorised her name and as soon we got internet at home we started googling her and found out LOTS OF AMAZING websites about what was called "the Beatlegirls". My sis back then still loved Cynthia, as John was her favourite Beatle, but soon changed onto Pattie.

And Jane, of course, was not only a stage actress, but also a film and TV actress, a model, a cook, an author, an activist... And her romance to Paul was not only when he was 25, but for five years!

[1964 - Jane in Regent's Park]

We started saving pictures of Jane, Pattie, Cynthia and Maureen, guessing the years pretty well! We were hesitant to join yahoo groups because you needed a yahoo email, but in the end we did, and we found a great collection of photos and met fans alike!

[Jane in 1967, for the Ladies Home Journal]

And, of course, like the other muses we had, we started to build websites, then MySpace (remember that?!), facebook, here on tumblr... Always trying to find the best picture and the most accurate information about them.

What I really love about Jane is that now I don't "care" about Paul anymore, now it's her. and she's still acting! Maybe I knew her as a "Beatlegirl" but she is far more than that, she is not that anymore (to me). Like all the muses, she is her own person, and she defines herself as a "science groupie", isn't that fabulous?

[Jane in 1970, in "The Philanthropist" play]

Finally, after watching some of her films, collecting many of her magazines and photos, watching "An American In Paris" play that was filmed for cinemas, we're going to see her live in a theatre production in London this summer. We are very excited!

[Jane in the play "Moon Tiger" in 2014]

Today, for her 77th birthday, we wanted to share with all of you, dear followers, how we knew about Jane and what made us love her.

Here we share:

OUR BIOGRAPHY OF HER, WITH LINKS TO AMAZING SITES

JANE'S ACTING CAREER

HER POSTS IN OUR BLOG

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR PRERAFAELITE BEAUTY

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Courtney Love wearing Stevie Nicks's clothes with Melissa Auf der Maur for a photoshoot, 1997

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Jane Birkin / photo by Pompeo Posar for Playboy, November 1970.

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Jane Fonda photographed by Bill Ray, 1971. LIFE Magazine.

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jane birkin photographed by benjamin auger, 1971

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