Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography (56 page)

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Shortly before her seventeenth birthday, Angelina was in contention to replace supermodel Cindy Crawford as the face and body of a swimwear brand. While the camera loved her, she decided to focus on her acting career instead.
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The wedding of Angelina’s maternal grandparents, Rolland and Lois Bertrand, in 1949 was an elaborate affair with seven bridesmaids and groomsmen. Lois dreamed of making it in the movies or as a model, passing on her ambition to her eldest daughter, Marcia Lynne.
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Every Saturday, Angelina’s grandmother Lois took young Marcia Lynne from the small community of Riverdale, Illinois, into Chicago for dance, singing, and acting classes. It was her mother’s ambition to see her daughter’s name up in lights.
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When she left Beverly Hills High School in 1969, Marcia Lynne, who called herself Marcheline as an adult, pursued a career in modeling.
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Jon Voight and a heavily-pregnant Marcheline Bertrand seem the picture of mutual adoration and happiness after she watched him perform in a Los Angeles stage production of
A Streetcar Named Desire
in April 1973. A few weeks later she gave birth to their first son, James Haven Voight.
Peter C. Borsari

Angelina Jolie Voight was born in Beverly Hills on June 4, 1975. Her far-seeing mother gave her a distinctive middle name so that she would have her own stage identity should she wish to pursue a career in acting.
Lauren Taines

Shortly after Angelina was born, Jon Voight was asked to organize a student production of
Hamlet
at the University of California, Northridge. During rehearsals he spent as much time as he could with the new arrival. Here he is at home on Roxbury Drive, wrestling with his lines and cradling baby Angelina in his arm as family friend Lauren Taines looks on. Visitors were always struck by how simply this Hollywood star lived. The decoration is plain except for a Tiffany lamp and an antique trunk bought by Marcheline.
Courtesy of Lauren Taines

The building on Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills that provided an unconventional home life for Angelina. For a time after the breakup of her parents’ marriage, Angelina lived apart from her mother and brother, cared for by various babysitters. This episode provides many clues to Angelina’s future behavior.
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Jon Voight’s passionate affair with college student Stacey Pickren ended his marriage, with dramatic consequences for his family, particularly infant Angelina. He met the budding actress when she played Ophelia to his Hamlet. Their wild affair is still referred to as “The Scandal of Northridge.”
Peter C. Borsari

Jon Voight and Stacey Pickren enjoy a joke with Dustin Hoffman. Both he and Hoffman were nominated for Oscars for their performances in
Midnight Cowboy
, the first X-rated movie to win an Academy Award. Stacey was by Voight’s side when he won an Oscar for
Coming Home
in 1979. Marcheline, who used to love going to the Oscars with her husband, watched the ceremony on television. Her daughter has never seen the movie because of the painful family associations.
Peter C. Borsari