Miss America 1939 | |
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Date | September 9, 1939 |
Venue | Steel Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
Entrants | 43 |
Placements | 15 |
Winner | Patricia Donnelly Michigan |
Miss America 1939, the 13th Miss America pageant, was the last pageant to be held at the famed Steel Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey. [1] The finals were held on Saturday, September 9, 1939, and Miss Michigan, Patricia Donnelly, was crowned Miss America 1939. [2] The Miss Congeniality Award was also introduced at the 1939 competition.
Donnelly later became a singer and actress. Third runner-up Marguerita Skliris became the actress Margia Dean, who starred in such Hollywood films as Seven Women from Hell and The Quatermass Xperiment . Fourth runner-up Rose Marie Elliott had a successful musical career on the Broadway stage as Rose Marie Brown.
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Miss America 1939 | |
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2nd Runner-Up |
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Top 15 |
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Title | Name | Hometown | Age | Talent | Placement | Awards | Notes |
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Birmingham | Florine Holt | Birmingham | Vocal, "Moonglow" & "A Little Bit of Heaven" | Top 15 | |||
Arkansas | Jean Thompson | Helena | |||||
California | Marguerita Skliris | San Francisco | Dramatic Monologue, "The Poison Scene" from Romeo and Juliet | 3rd Runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | Later known as actress Margia Dean | |
Central Connecticut | Catherine Harrison | Derby | |||||
Charlotte | Marguerite Taylor | Charlotte | |||||
Connecticut | Frieda Lampar | Bridgeport | |||||
Coney Island | Grayce M. Reilly | ||||||
District of Columbia | Evelyn Foster | 19 | Ballet en Pointe | ||||
Eastern New York | Claire E. Foley | Vocal Comedy & Dance | Top 15 | ||||
Eastern Ohio | Maxine Drumm | ||||||
Eastern Pennsylvania | Emma Louise Knoell | Philadelphia | |||||
Florida | Rose Marie Magrill | Miami | Tap Dance | Top 15 | |||
Georgia | Mary Durrance | Glennville | Vocal | ||||
Illinois | Ethel Lorraine Lodbell | Chicago | Monologue, "From the Diary of a Contestant" | Top 15 | |||
Kansas | Rosemary Winslow | Salina | |||||
Kentucky | Louise Holman | Pineville | |||||
Lexington | Mattigene Palmore | Lexington | |||||
Maryland | Elaine Pasqualla | Crisfield | |||||
Miami | Irmigard Dietel | Miami | Vocal Medley, "See You Again", "Blue Evening", & "Solitude" | Top 15 | |||
Michigan | Patricia Donnelly | Detroit | 19 | Vocal/Bass Fiddle, "To You" & "Ol' Man Mose" | Winner | ||
Minnesota | Marion Rudeen | Minneapolis | Acrobatic Dance | Top 15 | Preliminary Talent Award | ||
Mississippi | Doris Coggins | Baldwyn | Miss Congeniality | ||||
Missouri | Margaret Ley | St. Louis | |||||
Montana | Lucille Chouinard | Fort Peck | |||||
Montgomery | Louise Robertson | Montgomery | |||||
Myrtle Beach | Mary Eleanor Parish | Myrtle Beach | |||||
New Hampshire | Lois Marjorie Truax | Nashua | |||||
New Jersey | Margo Lundgren | Harrison | Whistling Tunes Vocal, "Don't Worry About Me" | Top 15 | |||
New Orleans | Frances Helen Anello | New Orleans | |||||
North Carolina | Margaret Wood | Vocal, "If I Didn't Care" | Top 15 | Preliminary Talent Award | |||
Ohio | Jeanne Saboda | Cleveland | |||||
Oklahoma | Bettye Cornelia Avert | Oklahoma City | Original Piano & Vocal, "Wondering & Dreaming" | 1st Runner-up | |||
Pennsylvania | Ruth Phyllis Willock | Pittsburgh | |||||
Philadelphia | Nancy Lee | Philadelphia | |||||
South Carolina | Margaret Allan Shealy | Clinton | Vocal, "Especially for You" | ||||
Staten Island | Lillian Evelyn Hessen | Annadale | |||||
Sun Valley | Louise Fletchner | Clarinet, "Stardust" | Top 15 | ||||
Tennessee | Judy Jones | Tracy City | Vocal Medley, "I Surrender" & "Come True" | ||||
Texas | Charmayne Smith | Dallas | Vocal, "Round Up Time in Texas" | Top 15 | |||
Virginia | Rose Marie Elliot | Sulfolk | Vocal, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" | 4th Runner-up | Later known on Broadway as Rose Marie Brown | ||
Washington | Anna Mae Schoonover | Seattle | Dramatic Monologue from Accent on Youth | 2nd Runner-up | |||
Western Tennessee | Louise Bussart | Etowah |
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