Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Miss Oregon competition is a regional scholarship competition that selects the representative for the US state of Oregon in the Miss America pageant. The annual event includes contestants from across the state and awards scholarships to the participants. Allison Burke of Tigard was crowned Miss Oregon 2023 on July 23, 2023 at Seaside ...
Julie Lynne Hayek (born October 4, 1960) is an American actress, model, charity worker and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss USA 1983. Early life [ edit ] Hayek is of Czech and German descent on her father's side and Norwegian, Scottish, Irish, and English on her mother's side.
The Los Angeles Times review in 2004 stated that: "The show found a New York audience willing to move from the tongue-in-cheek children's pageant concept to something that became startlingly adult." [6] In a 2004 review in The Guardian , the article cited notable quotes from other reviews, including The New York Times , The Village Voice , and ...
Raquel Welch. Jo Raquel Welch ( née Tejada; September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) was an American actress. Welch first garnered attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she signed a long-term contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to the British studio Hammer Film Productions, for whom she made One ...
Cross-dressing and drag in film and television has followed a long history of cross-dressing and drag on the English stage, and made its appearance in the early days of the silent films. Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel brought the tradition from the English music halls when they came to the United States with Fred Karno 's comedy troupe in 1910.
The Miss Florida USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Florida in the Miss USA pageant. Up until the 2017 pageant, both Miss and Teen state pageants were held separately in different months. In recent years, the organization was decided that both pageants would compete at the same time from 2018 onwards ...
The Miss Pennsylvania USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Pennsylvania in the Miss USA pageant. It has been previously known as Miss Pennsylvania Universe. [1] This pageant is independently conducted and produced by Proctor Productions based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mrs. America (contest) Mrs. America Pageant is a beauty competition that was established to honor married women throughout the United States of America. Each of the contestants representing the 50 states and the District of Columbia ranges in age from their 20s to 50s and earns the right to participate in the national event by winning her state ...