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Jessica Lange
Born April 20, 1949 in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
Birth Name: Jessica Phyllis Lange
Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
Jessica Lange was born in 1949, in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA, where her father worked as a traveling salesman. She obtained a scholarship to study art at the University of Minnesota, but instead went to Paris to study drama. She moved to New York, working as a model, until producer Dino De Laurentiis cast her as the female lead in King Kong (1976). The film attracted much unfavorable comment and, as a result, Lange was off the screen for three years. She was given a small but showy part in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz (1979), before giving a memorable performance in Bob Rafelson's The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), as an adulterous waitress. The following year, she won rave reviews for her exceptional portrayal of actress Frances Farmer in Frances (1982) and a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her work in Sydney Pollack's Tootsie (1982) (as a beautiful soap-opera actress). She was also outstanding as country singer Patsy Cline in Karel Reisz's Sweet Dreams (1985) and as a lawyer who defends her father and discovers his past in Music Box (1989). Other important films include Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991) (as a frightened housewife) and Tony Richardson's Blue Sky (1994), for which she won a Best Actress Academy Award as the mentally unbalanced wife of a military officer. She made her Broadway debut in 1992, playing "Blanche" in Tennessee Williams "A Streetcar Named Desire".
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001448/







Cybill Shepherd
Born February 18, 1950 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Birth Name: Cybill Lynne Shepherd
Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
Cybill Lynne Shepherd was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to Patty, a homemaker, and William Shepherd, a small business owner. Named after her grandfather, Cy, and her father, Bill, Shepherd's career began at a young age in modeling, when she won the "Miss Teenage Memphis" contest in 1966 and the "Model of the Year" contest in 1968. She became a fashion icon and went on to grace the cover of every major magazine, as well as famously act as spokesperson for L'Oreal. This lead to her acting and on her screen debut in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971). Nominated for Most Promising Newcomer, Shepherd continued to build her film career with influential roles in The Heartbreak Kid (1972) and Taxi Driver (1976). After taking a break in her career to have her first child, Clementine Ford, she returned to Hollywood in 1983, to make her television series debut in an episode of Fantasy Island (1977). She went on to star with Bruce Willis in the highly recognized show, Moonlighting (1985), and won Shepherd two Golden Globe Awards. Her third Golden Globe followed for her series, Cybill (1995), with which she also took on a producer role.
Aside from the film industry, Shepherd has been an outspoken activist for issues such as gay rights and abortion rights. In 2009, she was honored by the Human Rights Campaign in Atlanta to accept one of two National Ally for Equality awards.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001732/

[griffin]

I split my vote, Cybill Shepherd wins the fight and Jessica Lange is hotter.

[Patrick]

I went with Jessica, for both aspects... at this stage of their careers.

Both ''looks'' wise and catfight-wise, ''early'' Cybill never ''did it'' for me... not to mention that she didn't even look anything like what she did, say, when she was doing ''Moonlighting''and there on in..

... but, have the same two going at each other just a few years later, and I'd switch my votes, in a flash.

But, back to the here and now, so to speak, here, or rather ""now'' (as per the pictures), I'd see Jessica just plain overpowering Cybill, with the likes of strongly applied head-locks and such, finishing her up with a body scissor.

P.S.: good call on the match-up, again (as with many of your previous ones, I'd often ''considered'' each of these two, bet never against one another... until now !)