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If studio publicity is accurate, the 27-year-old former regi 1 tered nurse got her chance at the movies by mistake. The story goes that director Richard Brooks told an assistant he wanted ‘‘a woman about 52” for a walk-on part.'Hie assistant wound up at Sid King’s Crazy Horse Bar. where Shari performs nightly. He came back with Shari, whose measurements arc said to be 52-28-39.Alter her picture was published in Associated Press newspapers. the letters started coming. One arrived with only this address: Miss Snari Scott, 52-28-39. Denver, Colo.”Several would-be correspondents proposed marriage. But there were more propositions than proposals,” she said. “One nut even offered to buy me a custom made brassiere,” she !said.Another would-be suitor wrote from Brighton. Sussex. England, that he first saw her photograph in his newspaper. ‘‘I was admiring and looking at it so much while I was driving my car, that I had an argument with a lamp post; finished up second best by landing in a hospital for two weeks.”He said he realized that “such a beautiful woman as you are has had kings, princes, dukes, lords, film stars and million aires groveling at your feet and offering you furs, jewelry, cars and yachts...but there are two things no one but no one could,*■ would most like to be caughtating pizza with. You may winder why the pizza. Well, all can say is that this is Italy.” The attention to her unusual ittributes has brought financial ewards. She said she was offered a $300-a-week plus apartment plus expenses engagement in San Francisco, if she would take a six-weeks leave from Denver.Miss Scott said she has been dancing 34 years, since dancing was prescribed to strengthen a leg weakened by a back injury. She was working as a nurse in Tucson. Ariz., when she decised to investigate Denver’s widely known Crazy Horse Bar, where Sid King’s “School for Strippers” lists in a brochure such courses as “Elementary Bumps and Grinds,” Psychology of the Strip.” and “The Art of Teasing, Titillating and Tantalizing ”She said she came to Tucson from Miami, Fla., and finished ; nurses training there. But nursing was a bit of a problem, she said. “You're working pretty close to male patients, and that got pretty difficult” for a girl of her proportions.Clothing also is a problem. ‘ Anything that will fit up here usually is designed for my grandmother,” she said.She said she buys her bras from a custom manufacturer.But if I develop any more I’m in trouble. I use the largest one they make.”It’s a double-G.
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Helena Independent Record
Helena, Montana, US
Wed, Apr 16, 1969
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