Uschi Digard is a Swedish former softcore porn star

Pornographic actor

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 and model known for her roles in Russ Meyer

Russ Meyer

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 films.

Early years

When asked of her childhood, she has said,

Digard's breasts started developing at a young age, about which she commented,

Career

Digard burst into cinema in Sweden where she starred in several erotic films. In 1966, she went to the U.S. where she soon began appearing in numerous sexploitation

Sexploitation

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 movies and pornographic magazine

Pornographic magazine

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s.

She was among the best known big bust

Breast fetishism

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 models in the late-1960s and early-1970s. Digard was cast in Russ Meyer

Russ Meyer

Russell Albion "Russ" Meyer was a U.S. motion picture director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, actor and photographer....

's Cherry, Harry & Raquel!

Cherry, Harry & Raquel!

Cherry, Harry & Raquel! is a 1970 softcore exploitation film produced and directed by American film director Russ Meyer. Following the success of Vixen! , the film is notable for the first appearance of actor Charles Napier playing Harry Thompson, a California border sheriff and marijuana smuggler...

to provide the dénouement in a final interpretive dance

Interpretive dance

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 scene symbolizing the death of the antagonist. Digard would go on to appear in three more of Meyer's films in the 1970s.

She later appeared in several pornographic

Pornography

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 movies with porn stars such as John Holmes

John Holmes (actor)

John Curtis Holmes better known as John C. Holmes or Johnny Wadd , was one of the most prolific male porn stars of all time, appearing in about 2,500 adult loops, stag films, and pornographic feature movies in the 1970s and 1980s...

, Candy Samples

Candy Samples

Candy Samples is an American pornographic actress and exotic dancer.-Career:According to her website, Samples was approached while in Marina Del Rey, California to do pin-up modeling...

, and Kitten Natividad

Kitten Natividad

Kitten Natividad is a Mexican American film actress and exotic dancer, noted for her 44-inch chest and appearances in cult films by her ex-partner, director Russ Meyer.-Early years:...

. In those years she starred in some "sexy wrestling" short-footage films too, mainly for Triumph Studios and Ron Dvorkin's Bellstone.

External links

• Uschi Digard at boobpedia.com