Linda Harrison

1956 10 Years Old At age five, Harrison's mother enrolled her in ballet and acrobatics classes, and at six she began performing on stage. Over the years, Harrison became a skilled acrobat, entered acrobatics contests, and in 1956, when she was 11, earned first prize with her acrobatic routine in the Del-Mar-Va Delaware-Maryland-Virginia Chicken Festival Talent Contest. … Read More

1965 19 Years Old In New York, the Harrison girls shared an apartment and their mother's credit card. Harrison scored some success as a model, but she disliked New York and was homesick for Berlin. Less than a year later, she returned home and entered the Miss Maryland beauty pageant, a preliminary event to the Miss American Pageant, itself the final preliminary event to the Miss International contest, to be held in Long Beach, California, in mid-June 1965.Harrison won the contest over nineteen other girls, and in June 1965, as Miss Maryland, she traveled to California for the Miss American contest. … Read More