Granholm's family immigrated to California when she was four years old.
in 1977 she won the Miss San Carlos beauty pageant.
As a young adult, she attempted to launch a Hollywood acting career but abandoned her efforts at age 21.
She appeared on The Dating Game, and held jobs as a tour guide at Universal Studios
More than three decades before she fired up Democrats at their national convention, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm was looking for sparks on the set of “The Dating Game.”
A 1978 episode of the double-entendre-laden game show resurfaced this week on YouTube showing the former governor as a 19-year-old with blonde feathered curls and a very 70s fashion sense.
Sporting tight blue pants, suspenders, puffy sleeves and not a little cleavage, Granholm was introduced as a beauty queen working in public relations who “enjoys the theater, the arts and the great outdoors.”
Described by host Jim Lange as “cute and curvaceous,” Granholm gave the audience a shimmy-shake before probing her suitors with questions, like: “What form of transportation should all girls be built like and why?”
In the end, Granholm picked a model and actor named Steve over Michael, a comedy writer and magician from Brooklyn, and Roger, a multilingual San Antonio resident looking for a girl who’s “flexible.”
Granholm and her prize won a trip to Palm Springs, Calif., and a pair of tennis rackets
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