Grace Jones came bursting into our lives with her unconventional looks and taste. She got her start as a model, and thanks to her unique masculine look, she got people’s attention pretty quickly. However, she would then move on to music and release three albums during the seventies.
Her avant-garde concerts garnered her more attention, but she wasn’t about to let her star fall. She jumped into acting, and a talent for on-screen performances combined with her big name and striking looks landed her acting roles next to Arnold Schwarzenegger, Christopher Walken, and Halle Berry.
Iman
One of the biggest models in the seventies, Iman had a rags-to-riches story that's almost too hard to believe. Born in Somalia, Iman was a university student when a photographer spotted her. She moved to America and began modeling for "Vogue," and before long was a top runway star.
She dated Warren Beatty in the late seventies and had a daughter with basketball star Spencer Haywood. She met British rocker David Bowie in the early nineties, with which she had one daughter, and the two stayed together until Bowie passed away in 2016.
Diane von Furstenberg
Diane had it made: she married her college sweetheart Prince Egon von Furstenberg and became an official part of the German royal family (such as it is). But before long, she realized she wanted a career of her own and jumped into the fashion world in 1970, only a year after getting married.
Thanks to her newfound wealth and a pretty good amount of talent, von Furstenberg is now one of the most famous in the world, and its high-profile devotees include Victoria Beckham and Michelle Williams.
Susan Dey
Susan Dey got her start in Hollywood with "The Partridge Family." At 17, it was her first acting job. She had no acting experience, but she got the role of Laurie Partridge because her beautiful face was spotted in her budding modeling career. Screen Gems execs discovered her lovely visage on the cover of an ad booklet for a feminine hygiene brand, actually. Her career shot to fame with the Partridges.
She’s known as the Partridge star who refuses to attend reunions. But, if you heard her side of the story, you might feel the same. Intimidating details of her relationship with David Cassidy were exploited in his 1994 tell-all memoir. Since then, she’s refused to join reunion shows. And anyway, she’s been off-screen since 2004.
Suzanne Crough
Little Tracey Partridge was the second-to-youngest sister and played the tambourine. Played by Suzanne Crough, she was loved by many and kept acting in productions such as "Mulligan's Stew." Despite being a child actress, her education was important to her, and she went on to finish school and graduate from college.
She later owned a bookstore, got married, had two daughters, and went off the grid after 1980. Sadly, in 2015, Suzanne passed away suddenly. The entire cast attended the services for the sad occasion.