# So what is it about Angie Dickinson? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 12, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-it-about-angie-dickinson/264098 "2004-09-12T02:23:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-it-about-angie-dickinson/264098/61 "2016-07-02T08:02:11Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > Angie Dickinson also had a long-time “thing” (for lack of a better term) with Johnny Carson. Yes. She would also make a point of how much she loved men in general. At a time when feminism was taking off, she let everyone know that she wasn’t one of _ **those** _ women. Angie Dickinson was both beautiful and unchallenging, which made her the perfect fantasy for men who were uncomfortable with the women’s movement. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-it-about-angie-dickinson/264098/62 "2016-07-02T09:45:27Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Nope, you got her mixed up with Ann-Margret. Ann-Margret? :dubious: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIEJctXNb3c) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-it-about-angie-dickinson/264098/63 "2016-07-02T15:02:00Z")
All I know is I like AD in Ringo Starr’s “With a Little Help From My Friends” 1978 TV special. (featuring, of course - dastardly, tormenting surf bums with really obvious toupees.) ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-it-about-angie-dickinson/264098/64 "2016-07-02T19:07:13Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > So what is it about Angie Dickenson threads that gets people banned? Ha! When I read the thread title and saw the OP’s name, my first thought was “Of course a gay guy would be the one who had to ask this question.” My immediate next thought was “How fucking old is this thread? Wasn’t Otto banned like a decade ago?” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-it-about-angie-dickinson/264098/65 "2016-07-03T00:28:43Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > I always thought she looked kinda hard and slightly skanky myself. Her continued use of white lipstick after 1964 kinda killed it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-it-about-angie-dickinson/264098/66 "2016-07-07T08:13:29Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > I think she exuded a brassy, ball-busting toughness that set her apart from a lot of actresses. She wasn’t known for romantic roles as much as the woman who was able to fit in with “the boys”. **I think a more contemporary example would be Ellen Barkin.** > > Plus, she was [hot](http://64.211.46.141/nm/D/ANGIE_DICKINSON008.JPG). (bold mine) THIS is what I came in to say. Ellen Barkin is hot and evil and don’t take any crap. Angie Dickinson (from what I’ve seen) did the same thing years earlier. She even had a full frontal nude scene in that one movie [Big Bad Mama](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071216/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_50). She’s not a true blonde, but I don’t care about that. Unless they made that for the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-it-about-angie-dickinson/264098/67 "2016-07-07T08:27:05Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > I think she exuded a brassy, ball-busting toughness that set her apart from a lot of actresses. She wasn’t known for romantic roles as much as the woman who was able to fit in with “the boys”. I think a more contemporary example would be Ellen Barkin. > > Plus, she was [hot](http://64.211.46.141/nm/D/ANGIE_DICKINSON008.JPG). Oops. Just read the whole thread. No pertinent info provided. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-it-about-angie-dickinson/264098/68 "2016-07-07T08:37:58Z")
[quote=“terentii, post:62, topic:264098”] Ann-Margret? :dubious: [/QUOTE] I’ve seen some good pictures of Ann Margret. She’ll work. As for that singing video, that’s nothing that a little duct tape couldn’t fix. And then she’d be back to the hot Swede that she is. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-it-about-angie-dickinson/264098/69 "2016-07-08T02:51:17Z")
She did a great episode of _The Larry Sanders Show_ playing herself. She still looked pretty good then. In the episode Larry’s producer Artie (Rip Torn) tells Larry matter-of-factly that since Dickinson is appearing he has to avoid seeing her at all costs. Not because of any bad blood, but just the opposite. He says that whenever they get together they always go off and have a torrid affair for a week or so and that he’s powerless to resist her. Of course that’s exactly what happens. It was so well done it made me think it might have been partially based on fact, Dickinson and Torn being of the same acting generation more or less… ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-it-about-angie-dickinson/264098/70 "2016-07-08T20:17:18Z")
I have never understood this and I am of that generation. Well, maybe not quite, but I remember seeing Police Woman in first run. She always seemed to me like the kind of woman who you’d see at the end of the bar in a cheap dive. Maybe that’s it and I just don’t go for that type. She never did anything for me though. But she sure hit it off with a lot of powerful men. She was know to step out with Eddie Fisher, Burt Bacharach, David Janssen, William Shatner and Johnny Carson at various points in her life. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-it-about-angie-dickinson/264098/71 "2016-07-08T20:37:30Z")
It’s funny how, if you watch old Police Woman episodes, whenever the scene has Angie in a cocktail bar the ambient music being played in the bar will be a Burt Bacharach tune (they were married at the time) ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-it-about-angie-dickinson/264098/72 "2016-07-08T23:15:35Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lodoen](#): > > That was a plot on The King Of Queens. Jerry Stiller meets an old woman who claimed to once yadda yadda yadda with Frank. > Take a pass on Rome Adventure. She has a cameo trying to steal Troy Donahue from Suzanne Pleshette. Thanks Mom for making me watch dreck. > > I opened this thread hoping beyond hope for info on Overboard, a better movie Mom liked. Made for TV movie starring Angie Dickinson and Cliff Robertson from 1978. > > Not available in the US, but tedious eBaying showed me it was released on VHS in Australia (PAL of course). I say tedious 'cause I have to wade (!) through dozens of tapes of Overboard with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. > > I don’t know what keeps it unmarketed. Music licensing problems like Heavy Metal and Lathe Of Heaven? Something to do with the reported black-balling of Cliff Robertson? > > It was a staple of local TV afternoon movies… Mmm…Suzanne Pleshette! ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-it-about-angie-dickinson/264098/73 "2016-07-08T23:17:55Z")
Here is your chance to meet her tomorrow… [http://www.hollywoodshow.com/starList.php](http://www.hollywoodshow.com/starList.php) ---
**Author:** ![Greekfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@Greekfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greekfreak)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2016, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-it-about-angie-dickinson/264098/74 "2016-07-09T13:25:30Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > She knew JFK, so people assume they had a sexual relationship. But she has never said so publicly. Read Sinatra’s ex-valet’s book “Mr. S” for more JFK scoop. One of the best reads ever. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-it-about-angie-dickinson/264098/75 "2016-07-12T03:02:48Z")
I remember in ‘Police Woman’ they were constantly playing up her sexiness. Like Charlie’s Angels, it seemed like there was always a crime that required her to go undercover as a model, or a dancer, or a stripper or something that required her to be dressed in as little as possible. Also, she was known for her legs, and legs were a much bigger deal back in the day. And she was smokin’ hot in Rio Bravo. But by the time she was on Police Woman she didn’t do anything for me. Too ‘tough’ and her hairstyle was all the rage among middle aged moms. No teenager wants to see that. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-it-about-angie-dickinson/264098/76 "2016-07-14T07:27:12Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > I always thought she looked kinda hard and slightly skanky myself. Exactly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-it-about-angie-dickinson/264098.md?page=3)