The Ultimate 50
3. Maren Jensen
2010 Update
To our knowledge, there have been no new Jensen spottings
- and a blog with her name belongs to a young artist in Massachusetts. But someone has posted Maren's overlooked 1981
movie, Beyond the Reef. She travels to the South Pacific with his classic style - big, thick, touchable, and wavy almost to the
point of looking permed at times.
In one scene, Maren takes a boat ride with her female traveling
companion. A breeze is blowing, pushing our Ultimate Super-Hair to the brink of her left eye - but it stops short here, as she
tilts her head to save the day.
Moments before that picture, this scene has Maren in the background
of the boat -- but true Hair Fans know better than to be distracted by a plot. She dips her head, and hair on the left side
bends down....
....but look out! The breeze pushes Maren's mass of hair in, seemingly
trying to fill the face and defeat the Super-Style!
Maren flips her head up and left, not even touching her hair -- yet for one
stunning moment, hair is in her face!
We certainly didn't expect to discover this defeat, when preparing this update. If you watched Beyond the Reef at a theatre in 1981, you might have given Maren the benefit of Super-Hair doubt and presume she flipped the problem away in the nick of time. But in 2010, YouTube stop-action can be very unforgiving. You can watch the entire movie (we've linked to the third section with our vidcaps), and perhaps find other moments of mussing for Maren. If you do, please let us know -- but gently. This was a difficult end for some of us who consider her incredible Super-Hair a magnificently perfect dream come true.
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2008 Update
What's this -- bangs on this Ultimate style? Yes, Maren displayed some on
occasion. We were reminded of this at a Battlestar Galactica fan's site [defunct in 2023], which had yet another good collection of pictures
from Jensen's acting career. The bangs seemed to develop from nowhere, perhaps giving warning of long hair becoming
dangerously undone.
They also were well hidden in the movie Deadly Blessing - but if you watched carefully amid the
hauntingly dark scenes, you could spot them. One strip is loose here, but cut to stop at Maren's eyebrows.
We shot this vidcap during the film's dramatic final moments, just before the shocking
finish. Maren took two pins out of her hair after entering a house, leaving her Super-Hair as loose as it could be. From there
-- well, we're thankful for YouTube. Someone posted the entire movie, in 11 sections. We linked to the "fight to the
finish," [gone in 2023] so you can see what happens. We were left certain her Ultimate style did not fall, through it all.
Maren remains out of sight, somewhere in the U.S. But there's a web site "under construction" as we write this, claiming to be a Jensen "official site." Let's hope this serves as her way as emerging from hiding, to the praise of Hair Fans everywhere.
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2006 Update
There's good and bad news about Jensen to report. First the bad news for Hair Fans: she
remains in relative hiding, and we still have no current pictures to show. Some online information now indicates she left
show business because of the Epstein-Barr virus.
But the good news is that her 1981 movie Deadly Blessing has emerged from obscurity, and is available on DVD from several web sites. We should note this movie was rated "R" when it was released. So if you want to zip past potentially objectionable items (even though her hair was great from start to finish, as in the photo above), go to the last ten minutes of the film. That's when the incredible clash happens -- and as you see it, ask yourself: how many Super-styles today could survive what Jensen faced there?
If you don't have DVD capability, we found a nice collection of images from that movie at a
German movie web site. They include this one, with Jensen at left joined by a young Sharon Stone and fellow co-star Susan
Buckner.
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2004 Update
Our latest search for this Ultimate style found a disappointing web posting from July 2003:
"From my best sources I found that Maren went on to get married and is now living as a single mother in the mid-west. She
guards her privacy and wants nothing more to do with Hollywood."
We sincerely hope that view changes someday -- if not for Hollywood, then online supporters like us. We must settle for another Deadly Blessing rare vid-cap; the hair is only slightly messy, yet still as thick and fabulous as always. If you're after a gold mine for Maren's magnificent mane, we found it at "The Battlestar Galactica Club." [REVISED in 2023] Looks are free and thrilling, but downloads don't seem to be.
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2002 Update
Forget about trying to find new photos of this woman. It's hard enough simply finding this
woman. Maren's disappeared completely from public view -- and apparently that's how she likes it. The only clue we have is
what Battlestar Galactica co-star Richard Hatch said online: she's living in the Midwest U.S. with two children. We can only
hope her family appreciates her beauty as much as Hair Fans do.
While we appreciate Maren's desire to stay private, we also know many people would enjoy hearing from her -- not to mention seeing how her Super-style looks today. If you know or see her, please ask her to contact us by e-mail. We'd be honored and thrilled.
In the meantime, our online search found a very rare picture (above) from her 1981 showdown movie Deadly Blessing. (She starred ahead of some newcomer named Sharon Stone.) This looks like a bathroom scene, and shows the hair very close to her left eye - but the length is thrown back behind the shoulder, holding as strong as ever.
For pictures of Maren at her most marvelous, we highly recommend the web site of a Battlestar Galactica fan. [defunct in 2023] It's a wonderful collection, showing off her hair at its best.
Maren Jensen battled with her super hair in Beyond The Reef because of the type of boat she was riding in didn’t have an interior. Had she been riding in one of the Sunseeker Yachts available, she could have enjoyed her luscious locks without the breeze. Many hair styles from the early 1980’s were different from Maren’s classic look, influenced by punk culture. Maren’s beauty and classic style though shine through in all her movies, including Battlestar Galactica, a cult hit before its time.
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