Suzanne Somers is another of the iconic pin-up girls of the 1970s. She seemed to play the part of the 'dumb blonde effortlessly'. She did it so well that people assumed that she must be the same way in real life, but actually Somers is a fiercely intelligent woman, who struggled hard to make it in the acting world.
It was 'Three's Company' that finally saw her make a breakthrough into the mainstream, when she was cast in the part of Chrissy Snow in 1977. She made herself - and the part - icons of the era. The decade also saw her appear in 'Starsky and Hutch' and 'Zuma Beach' as well as the movies 'American Graffiti' and 'Billy Jack Goes to Washington', but to a whole generation of people, she's always going to be Chrissy Snow.