Miss America 1937 | |
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Date | September 11, 1937 |
Presenters | King Neptune |
Venue | Steel Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
Entrants | 49 |
Placements | 16 |
Winner | Bette Cooper Bertrand Island |
Miss America 1937, the 11th Miss America pageant, was held at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Saturday, September 11, 1937.[1] Shortly after being presented as Miss America, the newly crowned 17-year-old winner, Bette Cooper, left Atlantic City and returned home. Once there, she missed scheduled appointments on her first day as Miss America, as well as a theater appearance and a trip to Hollywood.[2] Her father cited illness as the reason.[3] Though not placing in the top five, representatives from different areas of New York captured three of the semi-finalist positions.
Results
[edit]Placements
[edit]Placement | Contestant |
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Miss America 1937 | |
1st Runner-Up |
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2nd Runner-Up |
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3rd Runner-Up | |
4th Runner-Up |
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Top 16 |
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Awards
[edit]Best Evening Gown
Preliminary awards
[edit]Awards | Contestant | Title |
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Talent | Phyllis Randall | ![]() |
Claire Jean Nevulis | ![]() | |
Grace Travis | ![]() |
Contestants
[edit]Name | Title | Hometown | Age | Talent | Placement | Awards | Notes |
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Lorraine Mayfield | ![]() |
Atlanta | |||||
Olga Strickland | ![]() |
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May Vivian Miller | ![]() |
Baltimore | |||||
Bette Cooper | ![]() |
Hackettstown | 17 | Vocal, "When the Poppies Bloom Again" | Winner | Best Evening Gown Award | |
Josephine Beall | ![]() |
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Helen Fleiss | ![]() |
The Bronx | Top 16 | ||||
Evelyn Townley | ![]() |
Top 16 | |||||
Phyllis Randall | ![]() |
Hollywood | 20 | Vocal/Dance | 3rd Runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | Sister of Miss North Carolina 1941, Joey Augusta Paxton |
Betty Hunneycutt | ![]() |
Charlotte | Top 16 | ||||
Sally Lillian Frank | ![]() |
Cincinnati | |||||
Frances Greene | ![]() |
Milford | |||||
Nickey Harriet | ![]() |
Harrington | |||||
Mary P. Hollran | ![]() |
Delray Beach | |||||
Helen Greene | ![]() |
24 | Blues Vocal & Piano | ||||
Beryl Kober | ![]() |
Chalfont | |||||
Margaret Myers | ![]() |
Rock Hall | |||||
Dorothy Armstrong | ![]() |
Whitesboro | |||||
Frances Powell | ![]() |
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Lucia Benton | ![]() |
Norton | Top 16 | ||||
Audrey Catherine Flaig | ![]() |
Bellevue | |||||
Gertrude Rissie Miller | ![]() |
Winnsboro | Top 16 | ||||
Cornelia Campbell | ![]() |
South Portland | |||||
Claire Nevulis | ![]() |
South Boston | Vocal/Tap Dance | Top 16 | Preliminary Talent Award | ||
Irmigard Dietel | ![]() |
Vocal | 4th Runner-up | ||||
Cecelia Rodge | ![]() |
Minneapolis | |||||
Virginia Riley | ![]() |
West Point | |||||
Mary Sue Klein | ![]() |
Moberly | |||||
Ingram Starkey | ![]() |
Montgomery | |||||
Ruth Lenore Jones | ![]() |
Nebraska City | |||||
Grace Travis | ![]() |
New York City | Vocal | Top 16 | Preliminary Talent Award | ||
Ruth Covington | ![]() |
Tap Dance, "Gonna Go" | 2nd Runner-up | ||||
Jean Fadden | ![]() |
Cleveland | Top 16 | ||||
Kathryn Crase | ![]() |
Philadelphia | |||||
Malen Pietrantoni | ![]() |
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Dorothy May Eden | ![]() |
East Providence | 18 | Dr. Dorothy May Eden Trayner Erinakes died at 97 on March 20, 2017 in San Luis Obispo, California. | |||
Helen Frances Murphy | ![]() |
Riverside | |||||
Oliver Henderson | ![]() |
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Carolyn Cumbie | ![]() |
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Wayring Smathers | ![]() |
Columbia | |||||
Margaret Julia Jardon | ![]() |
Burlington | |||||
Wauneta Bates | ![]() |
St. Louis | Top 16 | ||||
Kathryn H. Kendrick | ![]() |
Sunnybrook | |||||
Alice Emerick | ![]() |
Fort Worth | Tap Dance | 1st Runner-up | |||
Irene Alice Vanderburgh | ![]() |
Watervliet | |||||
Frances Lee Sultan | ![]() |
Kecoughtan | Top 16 | ||||
Juliana Bernhardt | ![]() |
Seattle | |||||
Evelyn Raye | ![]() |
New Rochelle | Top 16 | ||||
Mary Ann McLaughlin | ![]() |
Riverton |
References
[edit]- ^ United Press (1937-09-12). "17-Year-Old Jersey Blond is Miss America for 1937". Syracuse Herald. p. Two A.
- ^ Hetrick, Christian (July 18, 2015). "The curse of Miss New Jersey". The Press of Atlantic City. Pleasantville, NJ: BH Media. Retrieved July 31, 2015.
- ^ Associated Press (1937-09-13). "Bette Cooper, Tired and Ill, Leaves Atlantic City with First Boyfriend". Lewiston Daily Sun. p. 13.
Secondary sources
[edit]- Saulino Osborne, Angela (1995). "Miss Americas and their Courts". Miss America The Dream Lives On. Taylor Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-87833-110-9.