Jacqueline Bisset

She was one of the many stars in the blockbuster disaster film Airport (1970), in which she played a pregnant flight attendant carrying Dean Martin's love child. Following films included The Mephisto Waltz (1971) with Alan Alda, The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973) with Ryan O'Neal, The Spiral Staircase (1975) with Christopher Plummer, and St. Ives (1976) with Charles Bronson.

In addition to her many American films, Bisset also appeared in several French and Italian productions. She earned respect from European critics for her performance in François Truffaut's Day for Night (1973), starred in Le Magnifique (1973) with Jean-Paul Belmondo and The Sunday Woman (1975) with Marcello Mastroianni.

Bisset's most famous role was in The Deep (1977), which reunited her with Bullitt director Peter Yates. A scene of her swimming underwater wearing only a thin, white T-shirt and bikini bottom helped make the film a box office success, leading the producer Peter Guber to say, "That T-shirt made me a rich man". About that time, a small Dutch-produced film Bisset had made six years earlier was re-released in the United States under the title Secrets. That film featured the only extensive nude scenes of Bisset's career, and the producers cashed in on her fame. Read Less