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The 1949 pageant marked the first time that a public official, New Jersey Governor Alfred E. Driscoll, had taken part in the coronation, placing the jeweled crown on the new queen's head. [ 1 ] The winner, Jacque Mercer , was the first Miss Arizona to take the crown, as well as the last previously married woman before the Miss America pageant ...
Miss America is an annual competition open to women from the United States between the ages of 18 and 28. Originating in 1921 as a beauty pageant , the competition now judges competitors' talent performances and interviews in addition to their physical appearance.
Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 18 and 28. [1] Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty revue", [2] the contest is judged on competition segments with scoring percentages: Private Interview (30%) – a 10-minute press conference-style interview with a panel of judges, On Stage Question (10%) – answering a judge's question ...
A granddaughter of the pioneer Linville family who first settled in Arizona in the late 1880s, she won the title of Miss America in 1949. She is mentioned (usually by title, once by name) several times in the 1997 Philip Roth novel, American Pastoral. She married and divorced her high school sweetheart, Douglas Cook, during her reign as Miss ...
After her reign as Miss America 1959, Mobley embarked on a career in both film and television. She signed a five-year contract with MGM . [ 2 ] She made her first television appearances on Be Our Guest in 1960, followed by five appearances on Burke's Law from 1963 to 1965.
Bess Myerson (July 16, 1924 – December 14, 2014) was an American politician, model, and television actress who in 1945 became the first Jewish Miss America.Her achievement, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, was seen as an affirmation of the Jewish place in American life.
Marilyn Van Derbur was born on June 16, 1937, in Denver, Colorado., [2] the youngest of four daughters to a family in the Denver mortuary business. (The lighted cross on Mount Lindo southwest of Denver was built so Van Derbur's grandmother could see her husband's final resting place from her home in Park Hill. [4])
She is the only Miss America to receive her crown at the end of the year. [citation needed] Margaret Gorman with her pet Greyhound, "Long Goodie", in April 1925. Gorman was the lightest Miss America at 108 pounds until 1949, when Jacque Mercer of Phoenix, Arizona, weighed in at 106 and won the title. [4] Gorman later said: "I never cared to be ...