Jon Voight

Here’s a little-known tidbit: Jon Voight welcomed his second child when he was 36, thanks to his then-wife, Marcheline Bertrand. That kid? None other than Angelina Jolie. Yeah, *the* Angelina Jolie. She was born June 4, 1975, and honestly, talk about a family legacy. Both her parents were already involved in acting, so she pretty much had Hollywood running through her veins from day one. Voight’s career was already in full swing at the time, which probably made for a pretty wild childhood for Angie. And, let’s be real, having two Oscar-nominated parents is a pretty solid start in life. The family’s story didn’t exactly play out like some fairy tale, though—Voight and Bertrand split up a few years later, and things between Jon and Angelina got famously complicated. Still, that June day in 1975 was the start of something huge in Hollywood history, whether they saw it coming or not.

Back in the late ‘60s, Midnight Cowboy rolled out and just kind of shattered what people expected from movies. Two dudes, Buck and Ratso, struggling through New York’s grime—one a wannabe hustler fresh off the bus from Texas, the other a sickly streetwise con artist. It’s all about their weird friendship, the insane stuff they go through, and the way New York just chews ‘em up. But honestly, if you made this film now, everyone would be side-eyeing the fact that their relationship stays mostly platonic. These days, people would probably expect the story to lean hard into the sexual tension or at least admit there’s some love bubbling underneath all that grit. But back then? It was a big deal just showing two guys clinging to each other for survival, no matter how messy or desperate it got. Kind of wild how times change, isn’t it?