Sharon Tate's name lives in literalinfamy because she was tragically the victim of one of the most gruesome crimes in American History. Despite her absolutely tragic death, Sharon's film legacy lives on. She was a gorgeous blonde with a knack for humor and flaunting her flawless figure. Today we'll celebrate Sharon's career and her sexiest scenes.

#TBT to Sharon Tate's Sexiest Scenes

Sharon Marie Tate was born in Dallas in 1943, but since her father served in the military they moved to Italy. She was homecoming queen at her Italian high school and a natural beauty whom everyone was obsessed with. No duh. Just look at her. Those alluring eyes, her iconic 60s hair and that big bosom made heads turn around the world.

#TBT to Sharon Tate's Sexiest Scenes

She became an extra in a few Italian films and discovered that her true love was for acting. She moved to Hollywood to pursue it and once again began with extra work. Her big break came in 1963 when she was cast as a sexy bank teller in The Beverly Hillbillies and as a telephone operator in Mister Ed. In bothof those projects, she proved that she was sexyand funny. It didn't take long for the rest of Hollywood to take notice of her, namely director Roman Polanski.

#TBT to Sharon Tate's Sexiest Scenes

Roman directed 1967's horror-comedy The Fearless Vampire Killers and cast Sharon as a shapely babe who becomes a vampire's victim. To create hype for this movie, Polanski and Tate arranged to do promotional nude shots for Playboy! We love that kind of marketing.

#TBT to Sharon Tate's Sexiest Scenes

That same year Sharon starred in Don't Make Waves in which her bikini body made waves in movie theaters around the world. Sharon didn't love this movie and thought it wasn't serious-enough work for her, but we really loved her beachy body in this film.

#TBT to Sharon Tate's Sexiest Scenes

One of her most enduring roleswas in 1967's fame-obsessed melodrama Valley of the Dolls directed by Mark Robson. Tate played a woman who becomes famous along with her friends and all three deal with fame differently. Sharon, obviously, played a starlet who felt she was only used for her looks. She related a lot to her character who falls on tough times and eventually gets breast cancer. Sadly, the movie wasn't the hit she hoped it would be. At the time, Valley of the Dolls was derided and made fun of which led to Roger Ebert's screenwriting debut in the NC-17 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls which was directed by Russ Meyer. Without Sharon's work in the first film, we would have never had this super sexy Russ Meyer flick.

#TBT to Sharon Tate's Sexiest Scenes#TBT to Sharon Tate's Sexiest Scenes

Sexy Sharon married Roman Polanski in 1968 at The Playboy Club and the couplebecame the talk of Hollywood. They partied and jet set around the world until they settled down in Los Angeles and Sharon became pregnant. She and Roman moved into Terry Melcher andCandice Bergen's old house on Cielo Drive in 1969 which is the residence that the Manson Family famously would target later that same year. While Roman Polanski traveled to Europe to work on a script adaptation of the book Day of the Dolphin, pregnant Sharon was left behind at Cielo Drive.

#TBT to Sharon Tate's Sexiest Scenes

Sharon Tate would become the most famous victim of the Manson Family Murders on August 9, 1969, when Charlie's followers broke into their rented home and killed everyone there including celebrity hairstylistJay Sebring (her friend and former lover whoinspired the film Shampoo), Steve Parent, Voytek Frykowski and coffee heiressAbigail Folger. Sharon was only 26-years-old and 8 months pregnant when she was murdered. While Sharon's bright star was violently put out, we definitely don't want these crimes or her marriage to overshadow her career. Her career was bright-eyed and sexy and there is no telling what other projects Sharon would have flung herself into after her son's birth. This gorgeous babe was too skintastic to have actually quit acting. We have a feeling she would have gone right back into modeling and acting and that beautiful hope is what we'd love to remember her by. #TBT to Sharon's super sexy scenes and her iconic beauty that will never go out of style.