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3. Sole survivor Alice made King an iconic scream queen. "Every actor and actress that was under 21 was trying to get an audition," King recalled years later. "I was trying to make the break from commercials into television into film," and she was up for anything, including dancing for four weeks as an extra in Saturday Night Fever.
Harry Crosby III—Alice's love interest Bill, who almost makes it out of Crystal Lake alive—is the son of the late Bing Crosby. After acting, he became an investment banker and philanthropist.
There's one in every crowd, and Kevin Bacon was the future big star to emerge from Friday the 13th (though his character Jack was brutally dispatched in the movie). He was not entirely unknown, having already made his film debut in Animal House, but he still definitely considered himself a struggling actor at the time.