Archiving Angeles (AA): Beautiful Apes

By Jason Burns
January 30th, 2009 @ 10:32 AM History

Gary Owens was an on-air personality at KMPC who was known for making things up. Mainly, words. This, however, was real.

Gary was hosting the most Beautiful Ape Contest for the release of Battle for the Planet of the Apes. Dominique Green, contestant No. 2, was the big winner that day in Century City.

The year was 1972.

Photo from UCLA Library Digital Collections

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6 Comments so far

  1. frazgo on January 30th, 2009 @ 10:48 am

    So those would be trans-species. Good thing you didn’t call them trannies too. ;)


  2. Queequeg (queequeg) on January 30th, 2009 @ 12:32 pm

    frazgo: HAHA!!

    I was wondering where Ghettogloss swiped their Guerilla Gorilla Thursdays from…


  3. WILL CAMPBELL (willcampbell) on January 30th, 2009 @ 1:48 pm

    If I remember correctly, exteriors from some of the scenes in that film were shot in Century City. Could be why they had the contest there.


  4. The Ugly American (theuglyamerican) on January 30th, 2009 @ 3:00 pm

    Gary Owens and beautiful apes….this pic has it all.


  5. Matt Mason (mason) on January 30th, 2009 @ 6:58 pm

    Pop quiz: which of these memorable Charlton Heston quotes does not come from the original "Planet of the Apes" movie?

    Taylor: "Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!"

    Taylor: "Doctor, I’d like to kiss you goodbye."
    Zira: "All right, but you’re so damned ugly."

    Taylor (waving musket): "I have only five words for you: from my cold dead hands!"


  6. mocherz on February 1st, 2009 @ 6:34 pm

    Tony Clifton?



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