Saturday, April 16, 2011

Fantastic Femmes--Cathy Rigby

A two-time Olympian, best known for playing Peter Pan in a long-running production that played Broadway and numerous national tours, Cathy Rigby has also been Dorothy in a national tour of Wizard of Oz.
Among gymnastics aficionados, she's notorious for being the first woman to pose nude in Sports Illustrated!
Genre credits include...
Peter Pan [2000] (Peter Pan)
Six Million Dollar Man "Love Song for Tanya"
Police Woman "Beautiful Die Young"
Check out...
Rigby-McCoy Entertainment HomePage 
July 2012 Update:
There's a rumor that more pix from the Sports Illustrated photo session are about to surface!

3 comments:

  1. I didn't know that. Thanks for the pic. She's charming, even in that provocative pose.

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  2. Provocative, but PG-13 rated. Sports Illustrated won't go beyond that. (It ain't Maxim, y'know.)

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  3. I can remember when this was first published. It was right before the 1972 Munich Olympics where she was expected to win all the gold medals. This caused a lot of controversy and led to her not winning any medals (Olga Korbut got the medals and the publicity). Cathy survived and moved on with her life. I got the magazine as part of an annual gift subscription-I didn't have the magazine confiscated (likewise, the swimsuit issues). There was some shock at seeing a nude photo in Sports Illustrated but everything seemed to blow over and life went on for everybody.

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Thanx for posting!