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Miss America 1940s delegates
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The list Miss America 1940s delegates includes
Vera Miles, Lois Nettleton, Allison Hayes, Cloris Leachman and Kathleen Crowley.
The list consists of 19 members.
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Vera Miles
American actress (born 1929)
Overview: Vera June Miles (née Ralston; born August 23, 1929) is an American retired actress, best known for playing Lila Crane in the Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho, later reprising the role in its sequel, Psycho ...Date of birth: 23 August 1929Age: 95Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ActressGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 4" (163 cm)
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Lois Nettleton
Actress
Overview: Lois June Nettleton (August 16, 1927 – January 18, 2008) was an American film, stage, radio, and television actress. She received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won two Daytime Emmy Awards ...Date of birth: 6 August 1927Date of death: 18 January 2008Age: 80 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ActressGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 5" (165 cm) 0
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Allison Hayes
American actress and model
Overview: Allison Hayes (born Mary Jane Hayes; March 6, 1930 – February 27, 1977) was an American film and television actress and model.Date of birth: 6 March 1930Date of death: 27 February 1977Age: 46 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ActressGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 7" (170 cm) 0
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Cloris Leachman
American actress (1926–2021)
Overview: Cloris Leachman (April 30, 1926 – January 27, 2021) was an American actress and comedienne whose career spanned more than seven decades. She won many accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from ...Date of birth: 30 April 1926Date of death: 26 January 2021Age: 94 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ActressGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 7" (170 cm) 0
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Kathleen Crowley
American actress (1929–2017)
Overview: Kathleen Crowley (born Betty Jane Crowley, December 26, 1929 – April 23, 2017) was an American actress. She appeared more than 100 times, usually as leading lady, in movies and television series in the ...Date of birth: 26 December 1929Date of death: 23 April 2017Age: 87 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ActressGender: Female 0
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Carol Ohmart
American actor and model
Overview: Armelia Carol Ohmart (June 3, 1927 – January 1, 2002), known professionally as Carol Ohmart, was an American actress and former model who appeared in numerous films and television series from the early ...Date of birth: 3 July 1927Date of death: 1 January 2002Age: 74 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ActressGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 7" (170 cm) 0
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Bess Myerson
American actress (1924-2014)
Overview: Bess Myerson (July 16, 1924 – December 14, 2014) was an American politician, model and television actress who became famous in 1945 as the first Miss America who was also Jewish. Myerson is the only ...Date of birth: 16 July 1924Date of death: 14 December 2014Age: 90 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ModelGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 10" (178 cm) 0
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B.J. Baker
American singer and beauty pageant titleholder
Overview: Betty Jane Baker (May 6, 1927 – April 2, 2002) was a singer, songwriter and vocal contractor, who worked as a backup singer on recordings by Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, The Righteous Brothers ...Date of birth: 6 May 1927Date of death: 2 April 2002Age: 74 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: SingerGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 7" (170 cm) 0
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Rosemary La Planche
Miss California
Overview: Rosemary E. LaPlanche (October 11, 1923 – May 6, 1979) was an American beauty queen and actress. She won Miss California two years in a row (1940 and 1941), and won Miss America in 1941.Date of birth: 11 October 1923Date of death: 6 May 1979Age: 55 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ModelGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 6" (168 cm) 0
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Marilyn Buferd
American actor
Overview: Marilyn Buferd (January 30, 1925 – March 27, 1990) was crowned Miss America in 1946 after being crowned Miss California. She appeared in several minor films in the 1950s as well as several foreign language ...Date of birth: 30 January 1925Date of death: 27 March 1990Age: 65 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ModelGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 8" (173 cm) 0
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Jean Bartel
American actor
Overview: Jean Bartel (born Jean Bartlemeh; October 26, 1923 – March 6, 2011) was Miss California and Miss America 1943.Date of birth: 26 October 1923Date of death: 6 March 2011Age: 87 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ModelGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 8" (173 cm) 0
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Jo-Carroll Dennison
American model (1923–2021)
Overview: Jo-Carroll Dennison (December 16, 1923 – October 18, 2021) was an American actress and model who was Miss America 1942.Date of birth: 16 December 1923Date of death: 18 October 2021Age: 97 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ActressGender: Female 0
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Venus Ramey
American beauty pageant contestant and activist
Overview: Venus Ramey Murphy (September 26, 1924 – June 17, 2017) was an American beauty pageant contestant, and later an activist. She won the Miss America competition in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September ...Date of birth: 26 September 1924Date of death: 17 June 2017Age: 92 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ModelGender: Female 0
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Frances Marie Burke
American, Model
Overview: Frances Marie Kenney (née Burke; May 4, 1922 – December 2, 2017) was an American beauty pageant contestant who was the winner of Miss America in 1940.Date of birth: 4 May 1922Date of death: 2 December 2017Age: 95 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ModelGender: Female 0
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Jacque Mercer
Miss America in 1949 (1931–1982)
Overview: Jacquelyn Joy Mercer (January 7, 1931 – February 2, 1982) was Miss America in 1949.Date of birth: 7 January 1931Date of death: 2 February 1982Age: 51 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ModelGender: Female 0
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BeBe Shopp
American beauty pageant titleholder
Overview: Beatrice Bella "BeBe" Shopp (born August 17, 1930), from Hopkins, Minnesota, was Miss America in 1948. 0
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Barbara Jo Walker
American, Model
Overview: Barbara Jo Walker Hummel (March 12, 1926 – June 7, 2000) was Miss America in 1947.Date of birth: 12 March 1926Date of death: 7 June 2000Age: 74 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ModelGender: Female 0
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Georgine R. Leeka
American, Model
Overview: Georgine Leeka (September 6, 1929 – February 19, 2011) was an American beauty pageant titleholder.Date of birth: 6 September 1929Date of death: 19 February 2011Age: 81 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ModelGender: Female 0
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Irma Nydia Vázquez
Puerto Rican beauty pageant contestant (1929–2019)Overview: Irma Nydia Vázquez (June 8, 1929 - May 2, 2019) was Puerto Rico's representative (as Miss Puerto Rico) to the 1948 Miss America pageant. Although Malen Pietrantoni started Puerto Rico's annual partic ... 0
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