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Uschi Digard (born August 15, 1948 in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA), is a former Swedish porn star and model best known for her prodigious breasts and her roles in Russ Meyer movies.

Although born in North Dakota, she grew up in Scandinavia. Prior to her acting career, Uschi worked briefly as a translator in the jewelry trade where she developed a knowledge of German, Italian, Spanish, the three Scandinavian languages, French and English. Her heavy Swedish accent is heard in a brief speaking part in Cherry, Harry & Raquel!. One of her most extensive speaking roles is in the softcore sex comedy Getting Into Heaven.

Digard burst into cinema in Sweden where she starred in several erotic films, although these would not be considered pornographic by modern standards. In 1966, she returned to the U.S. where she soon began appearing in numerous sexploitation movies and pornographic magazines.

She was among the best known big bust models in the late-1960s and early-1970s. Her film roles toward the end of this period occurred at an interesting time in the porn industry as films transitioned from softcore to formulaic, minimal plot hardcore. Many of these movies had well-developed and bizarre plots such as the cult classic Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS or Female Chauvinists in which Uschi and a gang of lesbians rob a sylvan sperm bank in a surreal dream scene.

Digart was cast in Russ Meyer's Cherry, Harry & Raquel! to provide the denouement in a final interpretive dance scene symbolizing the death of the protagonist. This plot devise was necessitated after the film footage was lost. She soon became a favorite of Meyer whose obsession with "well cantilevered" women is legendary. Digart would go on to appear in three more of the films Meyer made in the 1970s.

Later she co-starred in several pornographic movies with porn superstars such as John Holmes, Candy Samples, and Kitten Natividad during what is sometimes known as the golden era of porn from 1975 to 1983, which was marked by creative scripts (by porn standards) and high production values, when movies were intended for cinematic release rather than video and performers were unthreatened by AIDS .

As of 2006, Uschi Digard is married and lives in Palm Springs.

Partial filmography

Among the most notable of about 120 movies:

• The Big Snatch (1968)
• Uschi (1969)
• Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1970) by Russ Meyer
• The Seven Minutes (1971) by Russ Meyer with Tom Selleck
• Wow, It's Cindy! (1971)
• The Toy Box (1971)
• The Erotic Adventures of Pinocchio (1971)
• Bang! Bang! The Mafia Gang (1972)
• Prison Girls (1972)
• The Dicktator (1974)
• I Want You (1974) with John Holmes
• Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS (1975) (uncredited) with Dyanne Thorne
• Female Chauvinists (1975)
• Supervixens (1975) by Russ Meyer
• The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
• Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979) by Russ Meyer
• John Holmes and the All-Star Sex Queens (1980)
• Disco Sex Party (1980)
• Uschi vs. Roni (1989)

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