Sharon began dating a French actor named Philippe Forquet. As well as spending hours each week in the gym with physical trainers, and in speech classes with vocal coaches. In-between photo shoots she would take acting, singing, and dancing lessons. Instead Filmways decided to invest in Sharon, spending over $100,000 on her. However, Sharon's lack of acting experience kept her from the part, so Ransohoff decided to put her career on hold. Immediately she was tested for a role on Paul Henning's Beverly Hillbilly's spin-off Petticoat Junction. Ransohoff signed Sharon to a seven-year Filmways contract. Sharon started doing Television commercials while Gefsky shopped her around town eventually landing her a deal with Martin Ransohoff, CEO of Filmways. Sharon - who while dating Richard Beymer had started seriously considering a career in acting - hitchhiked down to Hollywood and contacted Beymer's agent Hal Gefsky. In 1962, Paul was promoted to Major and reassigned to Fort McArthur in California. Meanwhile, she continued to see Beymer while he was in Italy filming. Sharon's brushes with stardom continued, she got work as an extra in the movie Barrabas, as well as a Pat Boone special. He invited her to lunch and gave her his agent's number telling her to contact him if she was ever in the States. With a group of friends, Sharon came upon the movie set and caught Richard Beymer's eye. Paul Newman, Richard Beymer, and Susan Strasberg were filming the movie, Adventures of A Young Man in a town nearby Verona. But just as things appeared like they couldn't get any better, she fell victim to a date rape, which she kept to herself because she was afraid it would bring shame to her family's name.

Things seemed to be going well for Sharon in Italy, she soon found herself speaking Italian fluently. There Sharon attended Vincenza American High School and became a very active student, joining the Library club, the Student Council, the Cheerleading squad and eventually becoming the school's very first Homecoming Queen. In 1960, Paul was relocated to an Army base in Verona, Italy. Winning such events wasn't anything new for her when she was only six months old she was named Miss Tiny Tot of Dallas. As a teenager, Sharon began modeling and competing in beauty pageants.

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