Before Newsweek, Smithers was just a 16-year-old Valley girl. She grew up in a modest middle-class family in Los Angeles. Her father was a lawyer, her mother a homemaker, and she had three sisters ...

Here, a look at James Brolin’s previous marriages. Jan Smithers is known by many for her role as Bailey Quarters on WKRP in Cincinnati, but the actress was also married to James Brolin from 1986 ...

Photographer Julian Wasser, who snapped the cover image of California girl Jan Smithers sitting on the back of a motorcycle, has photographed everyone from Joan Didion and Marcel Duchamp to the ...

‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ cast (clockwise from top left): Richard Sanders, Gordon Jump, Tim Reid, Gary Sandy, Jan Smithers, Howard Hesseman, Loni Anderson, and Frank Bonner | CBS via Getty Images ...

"WKRP in Cincinnati" cast. Bottom, from left: Jan Smithers, Loni Anderson, Howard Hesseman. Middle row: Frank Bonner, Gary Sandy; Back row: Richard Sanders, Gordon Jump and Tim Reid. In the ...