It was 1979, and Los Angeles had a yacht party as its setting. There he was, with those arms that years later would break box-office records, but that night they were no match for Suzi Lane’s gaze.

Neither Terminator, nor Rambo, nor any action character had prepared him for that moment. The photo was frozen in time: a young Schwarzenegger, without the fame that would come, looking completely smitten with her.

Sometimes old photos say more than any biography. And this one says that even future action heroes melt for someone too.

