Famous Pageant
Winners
From Kelly Hu to Marla
Maples -
famous pageant winners and losers
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Mary Hart
Famed for her
insured legs and perennial perkiness, the anchor of Entertainment
Tonight competed as Mary Johanna Harum, Miss South Dakota,
in the 1970 Miss America Pageant. She made the top ten, but lost
to Phyllis George.
Hart later co-hosted PM Magazine
and co-hosted with Regis Philbin before moving on to E.T.
fame.
Cheryl Lynn Herring
Cheryl, who competed
as Miss Virginia and 4th runner-up in the 1977 Miss USA Pageant.
She later appeared in the ABC soap opera, General Hospital,
as Lucy Quartermaine Coe.
Laura Herring
Laura, the first
Latina to win the Miss USA title (1985), went on to marry a European
count and star in the daytime television series, Sunset Beach,
as Carla on General Hospital, and in the sexy film, The
Forbidden Dance.
Kelly Hu
Kelly Hu, the former Miss Teen USA of Chinese-Hawaiian lineage, has achieved
success in the entertainment field, starring in Martial Law opposite Sammo Hung.
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Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman
studied drama at Northwestern University
before competing in the 1946 Miss America Pageant as Miss Chicago where she was named a semifinalist. Although Cloris
failed to win that national title, she used her scholarship
earnings to study drama with
Elia Kazan. Leachman
became a respected actress who has been nominated for over
20 Emmy awards, won four Emmy awards, and earned trhe Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film, The
Last Picture Show.
Leachman's dozens of credits include
the hit TV series The
Mary Tyler Moore Show, Texasville, Kiss Me Deadly, and Danielle
Steel's Fine Things.
Marla Maples
Before becoming
the second Mrs. Donald Trump, Marla was named Miss Photogenic
and placed fourth in Georgia's Miss Teen Pageant. In 2007, she was hired
to co-star in the television series, The Ex-Wives Club.
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Imelda MarcosBefore reigning
as First Lady of the Philippines by the side of Ferdinand Marcos,
Imelda Romualdez reigned as Miss Manilla 1953.
Ali MacGraw
MacGraw,
a model and contestant in a "prettiest waitress" pageant in 1957,
achieved overnight fame playing Ryan O'Neal's lover dying
from leukemia
in 1970's hit film, Love Story.
The role earned her an Academy Award nomination for best Actress and a
Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a Drama.
 MacGraw's
film career has including playing the leading lady
to some of Hollywood's greatest actors. MacGraw
starred in Goodbye, Columbus (1969) for which she won
a Golden Globe award
for "New Female Star of the Year",
The Getaway (1972) with Steve McQueen,
Convoy (1978 with Earnest Borgnine, Players
(1979), China Rose (1983) with George C.
Scott, and The Winds of War (1983) with Robert
Mitchum.
Equally well known for her romantic life, MacGraw married
film producer Robert Evans in 1971. After falling in
love with co-star Steve McQueen during the filming of The
Getaway, she divorced Evans and married McQueen.
They divorced in 1978.
Although her career lost momentum after the marriage, she
later returned to the spotlight to appear in Glam
(1997) and Natural Causes (1994) and to produce her
best-selling yoga video, Ali MacGraw: Yoga Mind & Body.
Vera Miles
She won the 1948
Miss America swimsuit competition, but placed only third to a
marimba-playing Minnesota farm girl (BeBe Shopp), who won
the crown.
Still, Miles went on to enjoy a successful acting
career, appearing on television's Marcus Welby and Kojak,
and in numerous films including the Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960)
for which she became famous, and The Wrong Man
(1957) with Henry Fonda. Miles was a regular leading
lady in John Wayne films including
The Searchers (1956),The Man Who Shot
Liberty Valance (1962) and
Hellfighters
(1968).
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