With all the Michael Jackson news, let's not forget that another huge star, Farrah Fawcett, also passed away yesterday. All of the obits I've seen of Farrah pretty much start her professional biography with her breakout role in Charlie's Angels. But Farrah was almost 30 when she landed the role as Jill Munroe. A quick look at her IMDb profile shows that Farrah had a number of guest-starring roles well before Aaron Spelling made her a megastar.



Farrah also starred in a ton of commercials in the early '70s, including this famous spot with Joe Namath. Here, the Jets QB is advertising Noxema shaving cream, and Farrah lustily covers his face in the stuff.

More ads after the jump.

Here she is in a silly UltraBrite commercial:



Here she is in an ad for the oh-so-sexy 1975 Mercury Cougar. Dig the "glove-soft" vinyl seats!



Finally, here's Farrah and Penny Marshall in a Head & Shoulders ad. This is before the two of them formed the cornerstones of ABC's primetime lineup (it looks like Penny showed the ad when she went on Rosie O'Donnell's long-defunct talk show...).