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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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Go! Girl! Go! — Veinticinco

This home movie captures Sheree North performing a private dance at a Hollywood party. There’s no music, but North’s moves are expressive enough to carry the day. A trained dancer, she had the exact same measurements and weight as Twentieth Century Fox’s unreliable star — Marilyn Monroe — so the studio put North under contract as insurance. By the 1970s, North had became a mainstay on television, closing out her career with appearances as Cosmo Kramer’s mother Babs on Seinfeld.

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