Miss America (2002)

Directors

Lisa Ades

Cast

Bess Myerson, Cherry Jones, Isaac Mizrahi, Julia Alvarez, Katherine Shindle, Kathy Peiss, Kimberly Clarice Aiken, Lee Meriwether, Lencola Sullivan, Margaret Cho, Marian Bergeron, Mary Ann Mobley, Rebecca Ann King, Robin Morgan, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Tricia Rose, Vicki Gold Levi, William Goldman, Yolande Fox

The story

The documentary describes the Miss America Pageant as the national example of smaller beauty pageants held by various groups throughout the 1920s in the United States during a period of fascination with the concept of beauty. It details the beginnings of the pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey and how the bathing suit competition was central to the success of the pageant, drawing 100,000 spectators to the beach. Leonard Horn states that this led advertisers to invest in the pageant as well as to use women in their ads to increase sales.

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