She Found Sharon Tate’s body

51 years ago today…

A July 1969 photograph of Sharon Tate is one of the last formal photographs taken of the pregnant actress, in London. She is pictured with gifts for her baby of clothing. She was expecting a boy just a month after her tragic murder. IMAGE RIGHTS: TERRY O’NEILL.

American actress Sharon Tate and Polish film director Roman Polanski met in 1966 on the London set of the movie “The Fearless Vampire Killers”. It was not love at first sight (Sharon was seriously dating men’s hairstylist Jay Sebring and Polanski was a divorcee, playing the field and didn’t think much of his leading lady’s acting abilities) but after they spent a weekend together at a hotel…