Alfre Woodard

Jonathan Frakes calls her his "godmother". The two became friends as young actors in the 1970s.

Alan Alda

Richard Hooker, who wrote the novel on which the film (M*A*S*H ) and TV show ("M*A*S*H" ) were based, did not like the TV series and in particular did not like Alda's portrayal of Hawkeye Pierce.

Susan Ruttan

Married twice - her first husband died young in the early 1970s. Divorced from her second.

Victoria Principal

She worked as an agent for 3 years when she became unhappy with her acting career during the early 1970s.

Once posed nude for Playboy, in early 1970s

Cady McClain

During her time off of "All My Children" a stock image still appeared in the opening credits.

2002: Daytime viewers were shocked to see McClain's performance and transition from "All My Children" to "As the World Turns" from the beloved role of "AMC"'s 'innocent' Dixie Cooney to "ATWT"'s 'bitchy' Rosanna Cabot. For 13 years fans were used to her familiar role as a heroine to a villain. When she departed "AMC" she posted a letter on Soap Opera Central online telling her "All My Children" fans to go and watch her on "As The World Turns". AMC and ATWT are network rival soaps. Months later on "ATWT" she earned an Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Supporting Actress", but unfortunately her character on "AMC" was killed off, ending the popular Tad and Dixie romance.

Dan Aykroyd

Many sources state that he was married in the 1970s to a woman named Maureen Lewis and had three sons (Mark, Lloyd and Oscar). However, the marriage never occurred and the three kids never existed. What happened was that before Aykroyd became famous, he filled out a questionnaire from the publishers of Who's Who and made up a phony biography complete with a wife and kids.

Rachel Weisz

Her favorite movie is Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell's psychedelic 1970 masterpiece Performance .

Mia Farrow

Mia has 15 children. She has three biological children with André Previn: twin sons Matthew Phineas and Sascha Villiers (born February 26, 1970), and Fletcher Farrow Previn (born March 14, 1974). She adopted three children while married to Previn: Soon-Yi Previn, Lark Song and Summer Song (aka Daisy Previn). She has one biological child with Woody Allen: Satchel O'Sullivan Farrow (now known as Ronan Seamus Farrow) (born December 19, 1987). She adopted two children while with Allen: Moses Farrow (aka Misha), Dylan O'Sullivan Farrow(aka Mallone). She has adopted six children as a single mother: Tam Farrow, Isaiah Justus Farrow, Quincy Farrow (aka Kaeli-Shea Farrow), Frankie-Minh Farrow, Thaddeus W. Farrow and Gabriel Wilk Farrow. Tam Farrow died in March of 2000 at age 19 of a heart ailment. Lark Farrow died in December of 2008 at age 35.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

His parents are Jane Gordon and Dennis Levitt, who met as activists in California. Gordon ran for Congress in 1970.

Mike Nichols

Received the first $1,000,000 director salary for Catch-22 .

Charlton Heston

Volunteered his time and effort to the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, and even marched alongside the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on a number of occasions, including the 1963 March on Washington. In the original (uncut) version of King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis , he was narrator.

Loretta Young

Aunt of Robert Foster who, from 1975 to 1978, played the role of Grimsley, the vampire-mortician horror host of "Fright Night" on Channels 9 (then KHJ-TV) and 5 (KTLA) in Southern California.

Doris Day

Her mother named her after her favorite silent film star, Doris Kenyon. By coincidence, in the mid 1970's when Day wrote her autobiography, Kenyon was her neighbor on Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills.

Winona Ryder

Most of her early childhood was spent in Petaluma,Sonoma county. The family spent some time in Columbia with Chilean revolutionaries in the mid-70s. They moved to a 300 acre commune in Elk, Mendocino County with seven other families in the late 1970s.

Says Sarah Miles's performance in Ryan's Daughter inspired her to become a professional actress.

James Earl Jones

Has won two Tony Awards: in 1969, as Best Actor (Dramatic), for "The Great White Hope", a role he recreated in an Oscar-nominated performance in the film version of the same title, The Great White Hope and in 1987, as Best Actor (Play), for August Wilson's "Fences".

Phil Collins

A popular tradition in Genesis live shows since the late 1970s is the "Drum Duet" between Collins and Chester Thompson, in which the two men compete in a drumming duel for several minutes.

Was only 19 when he was named drummer/backup vocalist for Genesis in 1970. Later took over main vocal duties when Peter Gabriel left the band in 1975 and no one successfully auditioned to be his replacement.