Four Hollywood legends of the 1970s gathered together for a glittering showbiz group shot while celebrating a friend's birthday this week.
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Four Hollywood legends of the 1970s gathered together for a glittering showbiz group shot while celebrating a friend's birthday this week.One of them, aged 89, ...
One of them, aged 89, rose to fame as the wife of the king of Old Hollywood screwball comedies, then became a star in her own right during the New Hollywood revolution, acting with names like Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty and .
Another, now 81, was a reigning glamour model who married a screen idol and then a rock star and was also best friends with one of the original Charlie's Angels.
One of the other Charlie's Angels, still svelte and luminously youthful at the age of 80, could also be spotted in this week's party picture.
The fourth, aged 85, acted in 's directorial debut and later led the cast of a classic soap opera that served as a career launchpad for .
Can you guess all their names?
Jaclyn Smith (second from left), Dyan Cannon (third from right), Alana Stewart (second from right) and Donna Mills (right) are the icons pictured together
They are none other than Heaven Can Wait star Dyan Cannon, model Alana Stewart, Charlie's Angels bombshell Jaclyn Smith and Knots Landing legend Donna Mills.
The Daily Mail has contacted all their representatives for comment.
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The quartet had gathered with other friends to celebrate the birthday of their pal Patrick Foley, a beloved Beverly Hills makeup artist.
Cannon (right) earned an Oscar nod for the 1969 swinger comedy Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, in which she starred alongside (from left) Elliott Gould, Natalie Wood and Robert Culp
In the 1973 whodunit The Last of Sheila, Cannon stole the show as a scenery-chewing character based on the acerbic Hollywood super-agent of the day, Sue Mengers
Smith (left) as the only one of the Charlie's Angels to last throughout the show's original run from 1976 to 1981; pictured with Kate Jackson (center) and Farrah Fawcett (right)
Smith, pictured in 1978, has since managed successful forays into designing, not only with women's apparel for Kmart, but also with Jaclyn Smith Home and a wig collection
Alana Stewart's love life included marriages first to movie heartthrob George Hamilton, with whom she welcomed the troubled son Ashley Hamilton; the ex couple pictured in 1988
Stewart, who was best friends with Farrah Fawcett until the latter's cancer death aged 62 in 2009, is pictured with her onetime husband Rod Stewart in 1981
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More recently, she has earned a new generation of admirers for her devotion to the Los Angeles Lakers as a courtside fixture at their home games.
Smith captivated TV audiences as the only one of the Charlie's Angels to last throughout the show's original run from 1976 to 1981.
After the show, her acting gigs have largely been TV movies and miniseries, though she did snag a cameo in the 2003 feature Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, fronted by Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore as the titular trio.
Smith has, however, managed successful forays into designing, not only with women's apparel for Kmart, but also with Jaclyn Smith Home and a wig collection.
Alana Stewart made her bones as a top model in the 1970s and became best friends with Farrah Fawcett until the latter's cancer death aged 62 in 2009.
Her love life included marriages first to movie heartthrob George Hamilton - with whom she welcomed the troubled son Ashley Hamilton - and then to Rod Stewart.
When she and her fellow showbiz stalwarts gathered together for the Patrick Foley party this week, Cannon had a picture taken of them for Instagram.
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'Patrick Foley … my best friend of over 40 years , was happily surrounded by so many people for his birthday celebration last night that I still have a smile on my face from all the love that was pouring out of everyone there…,' she wrote.
Donna Mills catapulted to prominence as the girlfriend of the Clint Eastwood character in his 1971 directorial debut Play Misty for Me
Her most lasting fame came as the Abby Cunningham, the conniving snake with the treacly facade on the hit 1980s soap Knots Landing, for which she is pictured with Ted Shackleford
'In the photo you see Gayle and Jaclyn Smith, Alana, Stewart, Donna Mills, and so many others that were in attendance…l AINT LOVE GRAND!!!” Let’s celebrate each other every day… Isn’t that a good plan??'
Donna Mills catapulted to prominence as the girlfriend of the Clint Eastwood character in his 1971 directorial debut Play Misty for Me.
The film costarred future Arrested Development star Jessica Walter as the jilted fling of Eastwood's character, who becomes his increasingly unhinged stalker.
Her most lasting fame came as Abby Cunningham, the conniving snake with the treacly facade on the hit 1980s soap opera Knots Landing, the Dallas spin-off that also made a name for Alec Baldwin thanks to his turn as an unscrupulous televangelist.
