Susan Backlinie has died at the age of 77. The actress and stuntwoman is best remembered for portraying the young woman who goes for a late-night ocean swim only to be eaten by a shark in the opening ...

I’ll never forget June 20, 1975. The date is permanently tattooed on my brain for two reasons. First, it was the day that I turned six. If I shut my eyes, I can still picture my birthday haul from ...

Susan Backlinie, who played the first shark attack victim in Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws,” has died. She was 77. Backlinie died Saturday morning at her California home due to a heart attack, Convention ...

Hird didn’t bring the faux-nude wetsuit home with him. “I left that very firmly in New Zealand for some poor sucker to take, and, I don't know, put in an adult playroom somewhere,” he says with a ...

Steven Spielberg's Jaws birthed a franchise of four movies, though they didn’t have the same success (and quality). When it ...

Buzz surrounding the film, now remembered as America’s “first summer movie blockbuster,” had been positive, McHugh recalls. “But,” she says, “nothing prepared us for that onslaught." “We had never ...

The front window of the gift shop Soft as a Grape in Edgartown emblazoned with references of Amity Island, the fictitious location in the film "Jaws." (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Editor's Note: This is an ...