Editing Sharon Stone (section)

===Modeling and early screen appearances (1976–1989)===
While attending [[Edinboro State College]], Stone won the title of Miss [[Crawford County, Pennsylvania]], and in 1976,<ref name="flashback-sharon-stone-competing-miss-pa">{{cite news |last1=Rotunda |first1=Marie |title=In Your Own Words: A flashback to Sharon Stone, competing to become Miss Pennsylvania 1976 |url=http://archive.naplesnews.com/community/in-your-own-words-a-flashback-to-sharon-stone-competing-to-become-miss-pennsylvania-1976-ep-40654742-331458661.html/ |access-date=June 2, 2021 |work=[[Naples Daily News]] |location=[[Naples, Florida]] |language=en |quote=On the other hand, at 17, Sharon was a real pageant novice.  We became fast friends during pageant week in Altoona, Pa. I was impressed by her all-American pretty looks and smarts. She was very confident sharing with me that she was going to be the next Marilyn Monroe. I was a little surprised at her remark since she weighed about 145 (or more) pounds. During the talent segment, she recited the Gettysburg Address with sparkles in her hair. During the evening gown competition, she announced to the audience that she was going to win an Academy Award.  She did not finish in the Top 10 that evening.  The following year, in June of 1977, as I was relinquishing my Miss Pennsylvania title, Sharon came to the pageant with her mother on the final night, she said, "to specifically thank me for helping her the year before."  Sharon was totally transformed. At a statuesque 5 foot 9, she now weighed about 115 pounds. She wasn't just pretty anymore. She was beautiful. I was thrilled when she told me she had signed a modeling contract with the prestigious Ford Modeling Agency in New York City |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214250/http://archive.naplesnews.com/community/in-your-own-words-a-flashback-to-sharon-stone-competing-to-become-miss-pennsylvania-1976-ep-40654742-331458661.html/ |url-status=live }}</ref> was a candidate for [[Miss Pennsylvania]].<ref name=tca/> One of the pageant judges told her to quit college and move to New York City to become a fashion model.<ref name=tca/> Stone left Meadville and moved in with an aunt in [[New Jersey]], and by 1977, she had been signed by [[Ford Models|Ford Modeling Agency]] in New York City.<ref name="models-turned-actresses">{{cite news| url=https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/05/the-50-hottest-models-turned-actresses/12| title=The 50 Hottest Models Turned Actresses| date=May 18, 2012| work=Complex Magazine| access-date=October 7, 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312141939/http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/05/the-50-hottest-models-turned-actresses/12| archive-date=March 12, 2016| url-status=live  |quote=Modeling Credentials: She was signed by Ford Modeling Agency in 1977 and worked for a time as a model in Europe.}}</ref> She soon moved to Europe, living for a year in Milan and then in Paris. While living there, she decided to quit modeling and pursue acting. "So I packed my bags, moved back to New York, and stood in line to be an [[extra (acting)|extra]] in a [[Woody Allen]] movie", she later recalled.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dunn|first=Brad|title=When They Were 22: 100 Famous People at the Turning Point in Their Lives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ddKTf8joKAQC&pg=PT140|publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing|year=2009|isbn=9780740786815|access-date=November 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160514181424/https://books.google.com/books?id=ddKTf8joKAQC&pg=PT140|archive-date=May 14, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Galella |first1=Ron |author1-link=Ron Galella |title=Actress Sharon Stone attending 'Woody Allen New Year's Eve Party'  at Harkness House<!-- [[Edward S. Harkness House]] --> in New York City, New York. (156098186) |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/actress-sharon-stone-attending-woody-allen-new-years-eve-news-photo/156098186 |website=[[Getty Images]] |access-date=May 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515025143/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/actress-sharon-stone-attending-woody-allen-new-years-eve-news-photo/156098186 |archive-date=May 15, 2021 |language=en-us |date=December 31, 1979}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Galella |first1=Ron |author1-link=Ron Galella |title=Actress Sharon Stone attending 'Woody Allen New Year's Eve Party'  at Harkness House<!-- [[Edward S. Harkness House]] --> in New York City, New York. (156098202) |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/actress-sharon-stone-attending-woody-allen-new-years-eve-news-photo/156098202 |website=[[Getty Images]] |access-date=May 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515025118/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/actress-sharon-stone-attending-woody-allen-new-years-eve-news-photo/156098202 |archive-date=May 15, 2021 |language=en-us |date=December 31, 1979}}</ref><ref name="beauty-of-living-twice-Role-Models">{{cite book |last1=Stone |first1=Sharon |title=The Beauty of Living Twice |chapter=Role Models |date=2021 |publisher=[[Alfred A. Knopf]] |location=New York |isbn=9780525656760 |edition=First |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1234479428 |access-date=June 2, 2021 |quote=I got a call from my friend Riccardo Bertoni, who was an extras casting agent. He said that he knew that there was a call for a Woody Allen movie, and I should go. I was twenty, still in New York, trying to book modeling work by going out on 'go-sees.'|oclc=1234479428 |archive-date=March 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323104421/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1234479428 |url-status=live }}</ref> At 20, Stone was cast for a brief role in Allen's dramedy ''[[Stardust Memories]]'' (1980)<ref name=tca/> and had a speaking part a year later in the horror film ''[[Deadly Blessing]]'' (1981).

French director [[Claude Lelouch]] cast Stone in the musical epic  ''[[Les Uns et les Autres]]'' (1982), starring [[James Caan]],<ref>{{cite book| last=Milne| first=Jeff| title=Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: The Complete Guide to the Movie Trivia Game| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YZyqXZ_3sEwC&pg=PT638| publisher=Jeff Milne| year=2009| isbn=9780615285214| access-date=November 25, 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610142426/https://books.google.com/books?id=YZyqXZ_3sEwC&pg=PT638| archive-date=June 10, 2016| url-status=live}}</ref> but she was on screen for two minutes and did not appear in the credits. She secured guest-spots on the television series ''[[Silver Spoons]]'' (1982), ''[[Bay City Blues]]'' (1983), ''[[Remington Steele]]'' (1983), ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]'' (1984), and ''[[T. J. Hooker]]'' (1985); played a starlet who breaks up the marriage of a successful director and his screenwriter wife in the drama ''[[Irreconcilable Differences]]'' (1984), opposite [[Ryan O'Neal]], [[Shelley Long]] and a  young [[Drew Barrymore]]; and starred as a resourceful woman teaming up with a fortune hunter (played by [[Richard Chamberlain]]) in the action-centered ''[[King Solomon's Mines (1985 film)|King Solomon's Mines]]'' (1985) and ''[[Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold]]'' (1986), a light, comedic take on the ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' film series,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089421/locations|title=King Solomon's Mines (1985)|website=IMDb|access-date=February 9, 2022|archive-date=November 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107161827/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089421/locations|url-status=live}}</ref> which were poorly received by critics and audiences.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1011639-king_solomons_mines|title=King Solomon's Mines|access-date=February 9, 2022|website=Rotten Tomatoes|archive-date=January 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126081853/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1011639-king_solomons_mines|url-status=live}}</ref>  In his review for ''King Solomon's Mines'', Walter Goodman of ''[[The New York Times]]'' considered that Stone was "up to date as a spunky, sexy, smart-talking heroine with an effective right hook" but felt that the story was "lost in the effects".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/23/movies/film-in-updated-form-king-solomon-s-mines.html|title=FILM: IN UPDATED FORM, 'KING SOLOMON'S MINES'|first=Walter|last=Goodman|date=November 23, 1985|access-date=February 9, 2022|website=The New York Times|archive-date=January 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126081855/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/23/movies/film-in-updated-form-king-solomon-s-mines.html|url-status=live}}</ref> For her performance in ''Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold'', she received her first [[Golden Raspberry Award]] nomination for Worst Actress.

Stone obtained the role of Janice Henry in the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] miniseries ''[[War and Remembrance (miniseries)|War and Remembrance]]'' (1987), the sequel to the 1983 miniseries ''[[The Winds of War (miniseries)|The Winds of War]]'', based on the 1978 [[War and Remembrance|novel of the same name]] written by [[Herman Wouk]]. Through the remainder of the 1980s, she appeared as a reporter in the comedy ''[[Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol]]'' (1987), an attractive but mysterious woman with a hidden agenda in the thriller ''[[Cold Steel (1987 film)|Cold Steel]]'' (1987), the wife of an ex-CIA agent in the crime film ''[[Above the Law (1988 film)|Above the Law]]'' (1988) and the ill-fated wife of a successful businessman in the action film ''[[Action Jackson (1988 film)|Action Jackson]]'' (1988).