Call Me Stormy

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Unleashing the Tiger

Before she embarked on her film career, Sheree North began dancing. She appeared in a variety of USO shows during WWII when she was only 10 years old. After she got married for the first time at age 17, she continued dancing in clubs under the stage name Shirley Mae Bessire.

Here is North performing her Tiger dance in Hollywood, just before starting a career designed to build her up as the successor of Marilyn Monroe. Her many screen performances included roles in The Lieutenant Wore Skirts, Gypsy Moths, Charley Varrick and The Shootist.

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