Miss California
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For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA
Miss USA
The Miss USA beauty contest has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA...

, see Miss California USA
Miss California USA
Miss California USA is a pageant that selects the representative for the state of California in the Miss USA pageant.The current titleholder is Katie Blair. She succeeded Alyssa Campanella on June 25, 2011 after Campanella was crowned Miss USA 2011....


The Miss California competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 in the Miss America
Miss America
The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...

 pageant. Delegates from the states of California, Ohio and Oklahoma have each won the title of Miss America six times, more than any of the other states. The pageant has been held in Fresno, California
Fresno, California
Fresno is a city in central California, United States, the county seat of Fresno County. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 510,365, making it the fifth largest city in California, the largest inland city in California, and the 34th largest in the nation...

 since 1994.

Winners

Year Name Hometown Age Local Title Miss America Talent Placement at Miss America Special scholarships at Miss America Notes
2011 Noelle Freeman Carlsbad
Carlsbad, California
-2010:The 2010 United States Census reported that Carlsbad had a population of 105,328. The population density was 2,693.1 people per square mile . The racial makeup of Carlsbad was 87,205 White, 1,379 African American, 514 Native American, 7,460 Asian, 198 Pacific Islander, 4,189 from other...

20 Miss Culver City Winner of the 2007 Miss Teenage California Scholarship Pageant.
2010 Arianna Afsar
Arianna Afsar
Arianna Ayesha Afsar was born 1991 to a German American mother and a Bangladeshi father. She is a pageant titleholder from San Diego, California who was a semi-finalist on American Idol 8 and placed in the Top 10 at the Miss America 2011 pageant....

San Diego
San Diego, California
San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...

19 Miss San Diego County Vocal "I Who Have Nothing
I (Who Have Nothing)
"I " is a song originally released in English by Ben E. King in 1963."I " is based on the Italian song "Uno Dei Tanti," with music by Carlo Donida and lyrics by Giulio "Mogol" Rapetti. "Uno Dei Tanti" was released by Joe Sentieri in 1961...

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Top 10 at Miss America 2011
Miss America 2011
Miss America 2011 was the 90th Miss America pageant. Since the first Miss America pageant was held 90 years ago, in 1921, the Miss America Organization is celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2011. It was held at the Theatre for the Performing Arts in Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas...

Previously Miss California's Outstanding Teen 2005, first runner-up at Miss America's Outstanding Teen
Miss America's Outstanding Teen
Miss America's Outstanding Teen is an American scholarship pageant. It is a sister company to the Miss America Organization, and it aims to "promote scholastic achievement, creative accomplishment, healthy living and community involvement for America's teens." The first competition was held in...

 2005; Top 36 contestant on American Idol 8
2009 Kristy Cavinder Orange
Orange, California
Southern California is well-known for year-round pleasant weather: - On average, the warmest month is August. - The highest recorded temperature was in 1985. - On average, the coolest month is December. - The lowest recorded temperature was in 1950...

21 Miss Yosemite Valley Ballet en Pointe "The Slave Maiden Variation" from Le Corsaire
Le Corsaire
Le Corsaire is a ballet typically presented in three acts, with a libretto originally created by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges loosely based on the poem The Corsair by Lord Byron. Originally choreographed by Joseph Mazilier to the music of Adolphe Adam, it was first presented by the ballet of...

First runner-up Miss America 2010
Miss America 2010
Miss America 2010, the 89th Miss America pageant, was held at the Theatre for the Performing Arts in Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on January 30, 2010...

Preliminary Talent Award
2008 Jackie Geist
Jackie Geist
Jackie Geist is a beauty queen from Vacaville, California. She currently holds the title of Miss California 2008 and finished in the top 7 at Miss America in 2009. She held the title of Miss Hollywood 2008 when she won the Miss California crown....

Vacaville
Vacaville, California
Vacaville, California is a city located in the northeastern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area in Solano County. The city is nearly half way between Sacramento and San Francisco on I-80. It sits approximately from Sacramento, and from San Francisco...

22 Miss Hollywood Ballet en Pointe "The Dying Swan
The Dying Swan
The Dying Swan is a ballet choreographed by Mikhail Fokine in 1905 to Camille Saint-Saëns's cello solo Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des Animaux as a pièce d'occasion for the ballerina Anna Pavlova. The short ballet follows the last moments in the life of a swan, and was first presented in St....

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Top 7 at Miss America 2009
Miss America 2009
Miss America 2009, the 88th Miss America pageant, was held on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada on January 24, 2009. The winner was Katie Stam from Indiana....

Runner up in the Miss Teenage California Scholarship Pageant.
2007 Melissa Chaty
Melissa Chaty
Melissa Chaty is a beauty queen from Ukiah, California. She held the titles of Miss Teenage California 2003 and Miss California 2007 and finished in the top 8 at Miss America in 2008.-Biography:...

Ukiah
Ukiah, California
The average high temperature is 73.5 °F . Average low temperature is 46.1 °F . Temperatures reach 90 °F on an average of 65.6 days annually and 100 °F on an average of 14.4 days annually. Due to frequent low humidity, summer temperatures normally drop into the fifties at night. Freezing...

24 Miss North Coast Operatic Vocal "The Jewel Song" from Faust
Faust (opera)
Faust is a drame lyrique in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part 1...

Top 8 Finalist Winner of the 2003 Miss Teenage California Scholarship Pageant.
2006 Jacquelynne Fontaine
Jacquelynne Fontaine
Jacquelynne Fontaine is an opera singer and beauty queen from Oxnard, California. She held the title of Miss California 2006, finished in the top 10 and won a preliminary talent award at Miss America in 2007.-Biography:...

Moorpark
Moorpark, California
Moorpark is a city in Southern California. It was founded in 1900 by Robert Poindexter, presumably named after the moorpark apricots that grew in the area. The city has experienced a great amount of growth since the late 1970s...

24 Miss Santa Barbara County Operatic Vocal "Vissi d'arte
Vissi d'arte
"Vissi d'arte" is a soprano aria from act II of the opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini. It is sung by Tosca as she thinks of her fate and how the life of her beloved, Mario Cavaradossi, is at the mercy of Baron Scarpia.-Libretto:-External links:*...

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Top 10 at Miss America 2007
Miss America 2007
Miss America 2007, the 86th Miss America, pageant, was held on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada on January 29, 2007, which was a Monday, making it the first time that the pageant was held on a weekday, rather than the traditional Saturday....

Preliminary Talent Award
2005 Dustin-Leigh Konzelman
Dustin-Leigh Konzelman
Dustin Leigh Seltzer , born February 6, 1982, is a beauty queen and reality television contestant from Puyallup, Washington who has competed in the Miss America pageant and appeared on The Amazing Race 10 as well as The Amazing Race All-Stars.- Pageantry :Konzelman held the Miss San Diego 2005...

Carlsbad
Carlsbad, California
-2010:The 2010 United States Census reported that Carlsbad had a population of 105,328. The population density was 2,693.1 people per square mile . The racial makeup of Carlsbad was 87,205 White, 1,379 African American, 514 Native American, 7,460 Asian, 198 Pacific Islander, 4,189 from other...

23 Miss San Diego Fiddle "Twelfth Street Rag
Twelfth Street Rag
"Twelfth Street Rag" was composed by Euday L. Bowman in 1914. It is one of the most famous and best-selling rags of the ragtime era. It has been recorded by many artists, ranging from Louis Armstrong to Lester Young. Bowman worked as a pianist in some of the bordellos of Kansas City...

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Preliminary Talent Award and Non-Finalist Talent Award Contestant on The Amazing Race 10
The Amazing Race 10
The Amazing Race 10 is the tenth installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 10 features twelve teams of two with a pre-existing relationship in a race around the world....

 with partner Kandice Pelletier
Kandice Pelletier
Kandice Pelletier is a beauty queen from Marietta, Georgia who has competed in the Miss America pageant and on two series of the reality television show The Amazing Race.-Education:...

 (Miss New York
Miss New York
The Miss New York competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of New York in the Miss America pageant. Miss New York has twice won the Miss America Crown. Also, when city representatives were common at the national pageant, Bess Myerson won as Miss New York City in...

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2004 Veena Goel
Veena Goel
Veena Goel is a beauty queen from Laguna Hills, California. She held the title of Miss California 2004, placed 4th runner up and won a preliminary talent award at Miss America in 2004.-References:...

Laguna Hills
Laguna Hills, California
Laguna Hills is a city located in southern Orange County, California, United States. Its name refers to its proximity to Laguna Canyon and the much older Laguna Beach. Other newer cities nearby—Laguna Niguel and Laguna Woods—are similarly named.-Geography:...

22 Miss Southland Jazz Dance "Hot Honey Rag" from Chicago
Chicago (musical)
Chicago is a musical set in Prohibition-era Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal"...

4th runner-up to Miss America 2005 Preliminary Talent Award Contestant at National Sweetheart
National Sweetheart
Miss National Sweetheart is a United States beauty pageant created in 1952 where runners-up from the Miss America state pageants are invited to Hoopeston, Illinois to compete for the title of Miss National Sweetheart....

 2003
2003 Nicole Lamarche
Nicole Lamarche
Nicole Lamarche is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and Miss California 2003. Competing in the Miss San Francisco Pageant in 2003, she won the title and went on to win Miss California 2003 and became the Fourth runner up to the title of Miss America 2004...

Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...

24 Miss San Francisco Vocal "At This Moment
At This Moment
"At This Moment" is a song that was first recorded by Billy Vera & The Beaters in 1981 during a string of performances at the Roxy in West Hollywood and featured on their self-titled live album, Billy and the Beaters, released that same year.When it was originally released as a single, as the...

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4th runner-up Preliminary Swimsuit Award; Final Night Swimsuit Award Contestant at National Sweetheart
National Sweetheart
Miss National Sweetheart is a United States beauty pageant created in 1952 where runners-up from the Miss America state pageants are invited to Hoopeston, Illinois to compete for the title of Miss National Sweetheart....

 2001 as Miss Arizona
2002 Jennifer Glover
Jennifer Glover
Jennifer Jean Glover is a beauty queen from Laguna Hills, California. She held the titles of Miss California 2002 and Miss California USA 2001.-References:...

Castro Valley
Castro Valley, California
Castro Valley is a census-designated place in Alameda County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, it is the fifth most populous unincorporated area in California, and the twenty-third in the United States...

23 Miss Contra Costa County Contemporary Vocal "A New Life" from Jekyll & Hyde
Jekyll & Hyde (musical)
Jekyll & Hyde is a musical based on the novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The original stage conception was by Steve Cuden and Frank Wildhorn. The music is by Wildhorn and the lyrics and book are by Leslie Bricusse.The musical ran on Broadway for 1,543...

Previously Miss California USA
Miss California USA
Miss California USA is a pageant that selects the representative for the state of California in the Miss USA pageant.The current titleholder is Katie Blair. She succeeded Alyssa Campanella on June 25, 2011 after Campanella was crowned Miss USA 2011....

 2001, 1st runner up at Miss Oktoberfest 2000, was Miss USA at Miss International 1999, Top 10 Finalist at the 1997 Miss Teenage California
Miss Teenage California
The Miss Teenage Calfiornia competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of California in the Miss High School America pageant or Miss Collegiate America Pageant, depending on the annual winners educational status. Competitors are judged in the areas of "activities &...

 Scholarship Pageant
2001 Stephanie Baldwin
Stephanie Baldwin
Stephanie Baldwin is a beauty queen from Fullerton, California. She held the title of Miss California 2001 and placed in the top 20 at Miss America 2002. She earned over $25,000 in scholarships.-Biography:...

Fullerton
Fullerton, California
Fullerton is a city located in northern Orange County, California. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 135,161.It was founded in 1887 by George and Edward Amerige and named for George H. Fullerton, who secured the land on behalf of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway...

23 Miss Northern California Regional Vocal "Time to Say Goodbye" Top 20 at Miss America
Miss America
The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...

2000 Rita Ng
Rita Ng
Rita Ng from Tracy, California was Miss California 2000 and is currently a Medical Doctor of Cardiology. Ng won a preliminary talent award as a concert pianist and placed 2nd runner up at Miss America 2000. She received over $50,000 in scholarships by competing in the Miss America Organization...

Tracy
Tracy, California
Tracy is the second most populated city in San Joaquin County, California, United States and an exurb of the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 82,922 at the 2010 census.-History:...

22 Miss Los Altos Classical Piano "Sonata Appassionata
Piano Sonata No. 23 (Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 is a piano sonata. It is considered one of the three great piano sonatas of his middle period . It was composed during 1804 and 1805, and perhaps 1806, and was dedicated to Count Franz von Brunswick...

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2nd runner-up Preliminary Talent Award; Miss America Scholar award
1999 MaryAnne Sapio
MaryAnne Sapio
MaryAnne Sapio is a Washington DC lobbyist, and former beauty queen.Sapio won the Miss California title in 1999, and competed in the nationally televised Miss America pageant. She did not place in the competition, but did win a non-finalist talent award....

Rohnert Park
Rohnert Park, California
Rohnert Park is a city in Sonoma County, California, United States, located approximately north of San Francisco. The population at the 2010 United States Census was 40,971. It is an early planned city, modeled directly after Levittown, New York and Levittown, Pennsylvania. Rohnert Park is the...

21 Miss Gavilan Hills Tap Dance "Go Daddy-O" Non-finalist Talent Award
1998 Danielle Coney
Danielle Coney
Danielle Coney was Miss California 1998 She competed at Miss America 1998, where she won a Non-Finalist Talent Award and the Waterford Business Scholarship.-References:...

Santa Clara
Santa Clara, California
Santa Clara , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city is the site of the eighth of 21 California missions, Mission Santa Clara de Asís, and was named after the mission. The Mission and Mission Gardens are located on the...

21 Miss Gavilan Hills Vocal "A Piece of Sky" from Yentl
Yentl (film)
Yentl is a 1983 romantic musical drama film from United Artists, and directed, co-written, co-produced, and starring Barbra Streisand based on the play of the same name by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer, itself based on Singer's short story, "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy".The dramatic story...

Non-finalist Talent Award; Waterford Business Scholarship
1997 Rebekah Ann Keller
Rebekah Ann Keller
Rebekah Ann Keller was Miss California 1997. She competed at Miss America 1997, where she won a swimsuit award and finished 4th runner up. She was later Miss California USA 2000.-References:...

Lakewood
Lakewood, California
Lakewood is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 80,048 at the 2010 census. It is bordered by Long Beach on the west and south, Bellflower on the north, Cerritos on the northeast, Cypress on the east, and Hawaiian Gardens on the southeast. Major thoroughfares...

22 Miss Los Angeles County Vocal "Someone Like You" from Jekyll & Hyde
Jekyll & Hyde (musical)
Jekyll & Hyde is a musical based on the novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The original stage conception was by Steve Cuden and Frank Wildhorn. The music is by Wildhorn and the lyrics and book are by Leslie Bricusse.The musical ran on Broadway for 1,543...

4th runner-up Preliminary Swimsuit Award Later Miss California USA
Miss California USA
Miss California USA is a pageant that selects the representative for the state of California in the Miss USA pageant.The current titleholder is Katie Blair. She succeeded Alyssa Campanella on June 25, 2011 after Campanella was crowned Miss USA 2011....

 2000
1996 Lyndsay Kahler
Lyndsay Kahler
-References:...

Orange
Orange, California
Southern California is well-known for year-round pleasant weather: - On average, the warmest month is August. - The highest recorded temperature was in 1985. - On average, the coolest month is December. - The lowest recorded temperature was in 1950...

22 Miss City of Orange Vocal "Where Is It Written?" from Yentl
Yentl (film)
Yentl is a 1983 romantic musical drama film from United Artists, and directed, co-written, co-produced, and starring Barbra Streisand based on the play of the same name by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer, itself based on Singer's short story, "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy".The dramatic story...

1995 Tiffany Stoker
Tiffany Stoker
Tiffany Stoker was Miss California 1995. She won a swimsuit award at Miss America 1995 and finished 3rd runner up. Stoker was also America's Junior Miss 1992.-References:...

Clovis
Clovis, California
Clovis is a city in Fresno County, California, United States, northeast of Fresno. The population is estimated to be 97,218 as of September, 2011. Clovis is located northeast of downtown Fresno, at an elevation of 361 feet .-History:...

21 Miss Clovis Vocal "Think of Me
Think of Me
"Think of Me" is a song composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber from his stage musical The Phantom of the Opera.It is sung by Elissa in the fictional Hannibal opera. At first, Carlotta Giudicelli is cast in the part, but during rehearsal a backdrop falls dangerously close to her. She quits, having had many...

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3rd runner-up Preliminary Swimsuit Award Previously America's Junior Miss
America's Junior Miss
Distinguished Young Women, formerly known as America's Junior Miss, is a national non-profit organization that provides scholarship opportunities to high school senior girls. Depending on the schedule of the various state and local programs, young women are eligible during the summer preceding...

 1992
1994 Jennifer Hanson
Jennifer Hanson
Jennifer Kathleen Hanson is an American country music artist, as well as a former Miss California. Married to songwriter Mark Nesler since 1997, Hanson began her own musical career in 2002 with a self-titled debut album being issued on Capitol Records...

La Habra
La Habra, California
La Habra is a city in the northwestern corner of Orange County, California. In the 2010 census, the city had a population of 60,239. Its related city, La Habra Heights is located to the north of La Habra, and is in Los Angeles County.-Origin of name:...

21 Miss Garden Grove Vocal "Since I Fell for You
Since I Fell for You
"Since I Fell for You" is a jazz and pop standard. The blues ballad was composed by Buddy Johnson in 1945 and was first popularized by his sister, Ella Johnson, with Buddy Johnson and His Orchestra. The biggest hit version was recorded by Lenny Welch in 1963, reaching number four on the U.S...

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Non-finalist Talent Award Country music singer/songwriter
1993 Lisa Michelle Duncan
Lisa Michelle Duncan
Lisa Michelle Duncan was Miss California 1993 and won a swimsuit award at Miss America 1993.-References:...

Tulare
Tulare, California
Tulare is a city in Tulare County, California, United States. The population was 59,278 at the 2010 census.Just eight miles south of Visalia, it is part of the Census Bureau's designation of the Visalia Metropolitan Area. The city is named for the currently dry Tulare Lake, once the largest...

21 Miss Tulare County Character Ballet "Turkey in the Straw
Turkey in the Straw
"Turkey in the Straw" is a well-known American folk song dating from the early 19th century.The song's tune was first popularized in the late 1820s and early 1830s by blackface performers, notably George Washington Dixon, Bob Farrell and George Nichols. Another song, "Zip Coon", was sung to the...

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Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1992 Patricia Northrup
Patricia Northrup
Patricia Northrup was Miss California 1992 and is a military pilot who holds a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University. She has flown 75 combat missions during four deployments in Iraq and has been awarded three Flying Air Medals for her service to her country....

Agoura Hills
Agoura Hills, California
Agoura Hills is a city in Los Angeles County, California, and has the ZIP code 91301. The population was 20,330 at the 2010 census, down from 20,537 at the 2000 census. It is located in the eastern Conejo Valley between the Simi Hills and the Santa Monica Mountains. This city on the Ventura...

23 Miss Los Angeles County Vocal Medley Pilot for American Airlines
American Airlines
American Airlines, Inc. is the world's fourth-largest airline in passenger miles transported and operating revenues. American Airlines is a subsidiary of the AMR Corporation and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas adjacent to its largest hub at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport...

, judge for the 2001 Miss America Pageant
1991 Paige Adams
Paige Adams
Paige Adams-Geller was Miss California 1991 and a runway and print model.After working as a fit model for 7 For All Mankind, Citizens of Humanity and other brands, Adams-Geller created her own line, Paige Premium Denim.-References:...

Hemet
Hemet, California
Hemet is a city in the San Jacinto Valley in Riverside County, California, United States. It covers a total area of , about half of the valley, which it shares with the neighboring city of San Jacinto. The population was 78,657 at the 2010 census....

22 Miss Los Angeles County Vocal Medley "Some Day My Prince Will Come
Some Day My Prince Will Come
"Some Day My Prince Will Come" is a popular song from Walt Disney's 1937 animated movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It was written by Larry Morey & Frank Churchill , and performed by Adriana Caselotti...

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Former Alaska's Junior Miss 1986, Judge for the 2008 Miss America Pageant
1990 Maria Ostapiej La Mesa
La Mesa, California
La Mesa is a city in San Diego County, California. The population was 57,065 at the 2010 census, up from 54,749 at the 2000 census. It was founded in 1869 and officially incorporated as a city on February 16, 1912. Its official flower is the bougainvillea....

24 Miss San Diego North County Classical Vocal Medley "Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera (song)
"The Phantom of the Opera" is a song from the stage musical of the same name, composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, sung by Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford, lyrics written by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, and additional lyrics by Mike Batt...

" & "Angel of Music"
Non-finalist Talent Award
1989 Wendy Berry San Pedro 22 Miss Centinela Valley Classical Ballet "The White Swan" from Swan Lake
Swan Lake
Swan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...

Harvard Professor
1988 Marlise Ricardos San Pedro 26 Miss Lomita Dramatic Vocal "I Dreamed a Dream
I Dreamed a Dream
"I Dreamed a Dream" is a song from the musical Les Misérables. It is a solo that is sung by the character Fantine during the first act. The music is by Claude-Michel Schönberg, with orchestrations by John Cameron...

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3rd runner-up
1987 Simone Stephens Cerritos
Cerritos, California
Cerritos is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, and is one of several cities that constitute the Gateway Cities of southeast Los Angeles County. It was incorporated on April 24, 1956...

25 Miss El Camino Stand-up Comedy
1986 Lisa Kahre Salinas
Salinas, California
Salinas is the county seat and the largest municipality of Monterey County, California. Salinas is located east-southeast of the mouth of the Salinas River, at an elevation of about 52 feet above sea level. The population was 150,441 at the 2010 census...

19 Miss San Ramon Valley Flute Solo "Carnival of Venice
Carnival of Venice (song)
The Carnival of Venice, is a folk tune popularly associated with the words "My hat, it has three corners." A series of theme and variations have been written for solo trumpet, as "show off" pieces that contain virtuosic displays of double and triple tonguing, and fast tempos.Many variations on the...

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Non-finalist Talent Award
1985 Lisa Davenport
Lisa Ryan
Lisa Ryan the daughter of Charles Davenport ,is an American author and speaker. She has had a career as a television actress, host, reporter and producer. She also held the title of Miss California in 1985...

Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California
Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California in the US. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Santa Cruz had a total population of 59,946...

23 Miss San Mateo County Popular Vocal "Once in my Lifetime" Assumed the title in 1982 when Debra Maffett won Miss America & became the 1st such titleholder to win a state title and compete at Miss America.
1984 Donna Cherry Northridge 24 Miss West Los Angeles Impersonations / Vocal "Quando me'n vo"
1983 Shari Moskau Mission Viejo
Mission Viejo, California
Mission Viejo is a city located in southern Orange County, California, U.S. in the Saddleback Valley. Mission Viejo is considered one of the largest master-planned communities ever built under a single project in the United States, and is rivaled only by Highlands Ranch, Colorado, in its size...

19 Miss Saddleback Valley Popular Vocal "Greatest Love of All
Greatest Love of All
"The Greatest Love of All" is a song written by Michael Masser and Linda Creed and originally recorded by George Benson for the 1977 Muhammad Ali biopic The Greatest. The song was later popularized by Whitney Houston. Creed wrote the lyrics in the midst of her struggle with breast cancer...

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1982 Lisa Davenport
Lisa Ryan
Lisa Ryan the daughter of Charles Davenport ,is an American author and speaker. She has had a career as a television actress, host, reporter and producer. She also held the title of Miss California in 1985...

Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California
Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California in the US. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Santa Cruz had a total population of 59,946...

20 Assumed the title when Debra Maffett won Miss America; Later Miss California 1985
Debra Maffett
Debra Maffett
Debra Sue Maffett was Miss America 1983. Although she competed in the Miss Texas pageant several years without winning, she moved to California and was subsequently crowned Miss California. She represented California when she won the Miss America crown. Debbie graduated from S.P...

Anaheim
Anaheim, California
Anaheim is a city in Orange County, California. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was about 365,463, making it the most populated city in Orange County, the 10th most-populated city in California, and ranked 54th in the United States...

25 Miss Anaheim Popular Vocal "Come In From the Rain" Winner Preliminary Swimsuit Award; Preliminary Talent Award
1981 Cheryl Vancleave Riverside
Riverside, California
Riverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and the county seat of the eponymous county. Named for its location beside the Santa Ana River, it is the largest city in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area of Southern California, 4th largest inland California...

20 Miss Los Angeles County Country Western Vocal Medley "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool
I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool
"I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" is the title of a song written by Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan. It was recorded by American country artist Barbara Mandrell as a live version for her 1981 live album, Barbara Mandrell Live. It was released in April 1981 as lead single from the live album...

" & "You're Lookin' at Country
You're Lookin' at Country
"You're Lookin' at Country" is a country music song written and made famous by Loretta Lynn in mid 1971.-About the song:Lynn wrote "You're Lookin' At Country" in response to viewing the open country while touring on the road. Lynn said in an interview that she was inspired by all the meadows and...

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Married Frank Kalil
Frank Kalil
-Pro career:Kalil was drafted in the 11th round with the 298th pick in the 1982 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills as an offensive guard. Kalil played professionally in the USFL.-College career:...

, mother of Ryan Kalil
Ryan Kalil
Ryan Kalil is an American football offensive lineman for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League. Drafted by Carolina in the second round of the 2007 NFL Draft, Kalil played college football at the University of Southern California...

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1980 Robin Brooks Elverta
Elverta, California
Elverta is a census-designated place in Sacramento County, California. It is part of the Sacramento metropolitan area; the metropolitan area including Sacramento , as well as Arden-Arcade and Roseville. It is located about to Sacramento, miles from Rio Linda, of Roseville, and of Antelope...

23 Miss Fullerton Patriotic Vocal Medley "America the Beautiful
America the Beautiful
"America the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song. The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and the music composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward....

" & "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
1979 Deanna Rae Fogarty Azusa
Azusa, California
Azusa is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 46,361 at the 2010 census, up from 44,712 at the 2000 census. Though sometimes assumed to be a compaction of the phrase "everything from A to Z in the USA" from an old Jack Benny joke, the place name "Azusa"...

22 Miss Azusa Vocal "Cabaret
Cabaret (musical)
Cabaret is a musical based on a book written by Christopher Isherwood, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 1966 Broadway production became a hit and spawned a 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....

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Toured with Miss America USO Troupe & was a featured performer for several Miss America pageants in the early 80s
1978 Christine Louise Acton Chula Vista
Chula Vista, California
Chula Vista is the second largest city in the San Diego metropolitan area, the seventh largest city in Southern California, the fourteenth largest city in the State of California, and the seventy seventh largest city in the U.S....

23 Miss San Bernardino County Flute / Piccolo Solo "Hungarian Peasant Suite" Non-Finalist Talent
1977 Connie Lee Haugen Redlands
Redlands, California
Redlands is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 68,747, up from 63,591 at the 2000 census. The city is located east of downtown San Bernardino.- History :...

24 Miss San Bernardino County Vocal "Nobody Does It Like Me" from Seesaw
Seesaw (musical)
Seesaw is a musical with a book by Michael Bennett, music by Cy Coleman, and lyrics by Dorothy Fields.Based on the William Gibson play Two for the Seesaw, the plot focuses on a brief affair between Jerry Ryan, a young lawyer from Nebraska, and Gittel Mosca, a kooky, streetwise dancer from the Bronx...

Top 10 Semi-Finalist
1976 Linda Michelle Mouron Orange 19 Miss Orange County Tap Dance "Puttin' On the Ritz
Puttin' on the Ritz
"Puttin' on the Ritz" is a popular song written and published in 1929 by Irving Berlin and introduced by Harry Richman in the musical film Puttin' on the Ritz . The title derives from the slang expression "putting on the Ritz," meaning to dress very fashionably. The expression was inspired by the...

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3rd runner-up Toured with Miss America USO Troupe
1975 Janet Jaye Carr San Gabriel
San Gabriel, California
San Gabriel is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is named after the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, founded by Junipero Serra. The city grew outward from the mission and in 1852 became the original township of Los Angeles County. San Gabriel was incorporated in 1913...

21 Miss Pomona Valley Vocal "They Call the Wind Maria" from Paint Your Wagon 2nd runner-up Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1974 Lucianne Buchanan Claremont
Claremont, California
Claremont is a small affluent college town in eastern Los Angeles County, California, United States, about east of downtown Los Angeles at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. The population as of the 2010 census is 34,926. Claremont is known for its seven higher-education institutions, its...

21 Miss Pomona Valley Harp "Concerto in B Flat" 1st runner-up Preliminary Swimsuit Award Toured with Miss America USO Troupe; assumed the Miss California title when the original winner, Alice Tobler, resigned due to illness.
1973 Susan Kaye Shipley Hillsborough
Hillsborough, California
Hillsborough is an incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hillsborough is one of the wealthiest communities in America and has the highest income of places in the United States with populations of at least 10,000...

21 Miss San Joaquin County Piano "Malaguena" Top 10 Semi-Finalist
1972 Diane Wagner Daly City
Daly City, California
Daly City is the largest city in San Mateo County, California, United States, with a 2010 population of 101,123. Located immediately south of San Francisco, it is named in honor of businessman and landowner John Daly.-History:...

20 Miss San Mateo County Ballet "Swan Lake" Toured with Miss America USO Troupe
1971 Carolyn Jean Stoner Belmont
Belmont, California
Belmont is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States. It is in the San Francisco Bay Area, located half-way down the San Francisco Peninsula between San Mateo and San Carlos. It was originally part of the Rancho de las Pulgas, for which one of its main roads, the Alameda de las Pulgas,...

18 Miss San Mateo County Gymnastic Ballet "Malaguena" Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1970 Karin Kascher Castro Valley 18 Miss Hayward Violin "Méditation" Non-Finalist Talent Award
1969 Susan Ellen Anton Yucaipa
Yucaipa, California
Yucaipa is a city located east of San Bernardino, in San Bernardino County, California, United States. The population was 51,367 at the 2010 census, up from 41,207 at the 2000 census...

18 Miss Redlands Vocal "Get Happy
Get Happy (song)
"Get Happy" is a song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler.It was the first song they wrote together, and was introduced by Ruth Etting in The Nine-Fifteen Revue in 1930....

" & "Put On a Happy Face
Put On a Happy Face
Put On a Happy Face is a 1961 live album by the Oscar Peterson Trio, recorded at the London House jazz club in Chicago.Three other albums were recorded by Peterson and his trio at the London House, The Trio, The Sound of the Trio, and Something Warm...

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2nd runner-up Actress, best known for her role as "Susan Williams" in the various Stop Susan Williams!
Cliffhangers (TV series)
Cliffhangers was an American television series that debuted on February 27, 1979 on NBC.Cliffhangers attempted to revive the genre of movie serials in a made-for-TV format. Each hour-long episode was divided into three 20-minute segments featuring different storylines...

-related television series and television movie
Television movie
A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to...

s. Toured with Miss America USO Troupe
1968 Sharon Terrill Torrance
Torrance, California
Torrance is a city incorporated in 1921 and located in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County, California, United States. Torrance has of shore-front beaches on the Pacific Ocean, quieter and less well-known by tourists than others on the Santa Monica Bay, such as those of neighboring...

21 Miss Torrance Dramatic Reading "Little Word, Little White Bird" by Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat."-Biography:Sandburg was born in Galesburg,...

Non-Finalist Talent Award
1967 Karen Pursell Lindsay
Lindsay, California
Lindsay is a city in Tulare County, California, United States. The population was 11,768 at the 2010 census. Lindsay is located southeast of Visalia and is considered part of the Visalia Metropolitan Area by the United States Census Bureau.-History:...

22 Miss Fresno County Vocal "Much More" from The Fantasticks
The Fantasticks
The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones. It was produced by Lore Noto. It tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the play "The Romancers" by Edmond Rostand, concerning two neighboring fathers who trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into...

1966 Charlene Diane Dallas
Charlene Dallas
Charlene Diane Dallas was Miss California for 1966, as well as first runner-up to Miss America for 1967.She had a number of minor acting roles, including one as Laura Beige in the 1975 film Rancho Deluxe. She had second billing in the 1989 film Criminal Act, playing Sharon Fields.-References:*...

Danville
Danville, California
The Town of Danville is located in the San Ramon Valley in Contra Costa County, California. It is one of the incorporated municipalities in California that uses "town" in its name instead of "city". The population was 42,039 in 2010. Danville is one of the wealthiest suburbs of Oakland and San...

19 Miss Contra Costa County Piano "Toccata" by Khachaturian
Aram Khachaturian
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...

1st runner-up Preliminary Swimsuit Award; Preliminary Talent Award Featured Performer on the 1967 Miss America Telecast; Charlene Dallas assumed the Miss California title when the original winner, Donna Danzer, resigned during the coronation gala.
1965 Sandra Lynne Becker
Sandra Lynne Becker
Sandra Lynne Becker was born in Covina, California. While a senior in high school she competed in many beauty pageants and in 1965 became the youngest woman ever to receive the Miss California crown. After winning the crown Becker traveled with Bob Hope to Vietnam with the USO tour...

Covina
Covina, California
Covina is a small city in Los Angeles County, California about east of downtown Los Angeles, in the San Gabriel Valley region. The population was 47,796 at the 2010 census, up from 46,837 at the 2000 census...

18 Miss Los Angeles County Semi-Classical Vocal "Make Believe
Make Believe (Jerome Kern song)
"Make Believe" is a show tune from the 1927 Broadway musical Show Boat with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.In the show, it is first sung as a duet by the characters Gaylord Ravenal, a handsome riverboat gambler, and the teenage Magnolia Hawks, an aspiring performer and...

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Non-finalist Talent Award
1964 Sherri Lee Raap Fremont
Fremont, California
Fremont is a city in Alameda County, California. It was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the merger of five smaller communities: Centerville, Niles, Irvington, Mission San Jose, and Warm Springs...

18 Miss Oakland Jazz Baton Dance & Acrobatics Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1963 Wendy Douglas Sacramento
Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...

Miss Sacramento Vocal "Summertime
Summertime (song)
"Summertime" is an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, although the song is also co-credited to Ira Gershwin by ASCAP....

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Top 10 Semi-finalist
1962 Pamela Gamble Carmel 18 Miss Monterey County Classical Jazz Interpretive Dance
1961 Susan Henryson Fresno
Fresno, California
Fresno is a city in central California, United States, the county seat of Fresno County. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 510,365, making it the fifth largest city in California, the largest inland city in California, and the 34th largest in the nation...

19 Miss Fresno County Vocal "You've Got to See Momma Every Night" Top 10 Semi-finalist Preliminary Talent Award voted Miss Congeniality, was a featured performer for the 1962 Miss America Pageant
1960 Suzanne Reamo La Mesa 20 Miss San Diego Vocal "Love is Where You Find It" 1st runner-up
1959 Susan Bronson San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo, California
San Lorenzo , also known as San Lorenzo Village is a census-designated place in Alameda County, California, United States. The population was 23,452 at the 2010 census.-Geography:...

19 Miss Southern Alameda County Modern Dance "An American in Spain" 3rd runner-up
1958 Sandra Jennings Riverside Miss Riverside Piano "Clair de Lune" 3rd runner-up Preliminary Swimsuit Award Winner of the 1960 Maid of Cotton Pageant
1957 Lorna Anderson Sacramento Miss Sacramento Accordion "Dark Eyes
Dark Eyes (song)
Dark Eyes is a Russian song.The lyrics of the song were written by a Ukrainian poet and writer Yevhen Hrebinka. The first publication of the poem was in Literaturnaya gazeta on 17 January 1843....

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3rd runner-up
1956 Joan Beckett Sacramento Miss Sacramento Dramatic Sketch "A Dream: Faith Over Atheistic Sciences" Top 10 Semi-finalist Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1955 Barbara Harris Santa Cruz Miss Watsonville
1954 Lee Meriwether
Lee Meriwether
Lee Ann Meriwether is an American actress, former model, and the winner of the 1955 Miss America pageant. She is perhaps best known for her role as Betty Jones, the crime-solving partner in the long-running 1970s crime drama, Barnaby Jones. The role earned her two Golden Globe Award nominations in...

San Francisco 19 Miss San Francisco Dramatic Monologue "Riders to the Sea
Riders to the Sea
Riders to the Sea is a play written by Irish playwright John Millington Synge. It was first performed on February 25, 1904 at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin by the Irish National Theater Society. A one-act tragedy, the play is set in the Aran Islands, and like all of Synge's plays it is noted for...

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Winner Preliminary Swimsuit Award Actress best known as Catwoman
Catwoman
Catwoman is a fictional character associated with DC Comics' Batman franchise. Historically a supervillain, the character was created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, partially inspired by Kane's cousin, Ruth Steel...

 in the 1966 Batman
Batman (1966 film)
Batman, often promoted as Batman: The Movie, is a 1966 film based on the Batman television series, and the first full-length theatrical adaptation of the DC Comics character of the same name. Released by 20th Century Fox, the film starred Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin. The film was...

 movie
1953 Patricia Johns Fresno Miss Fresno Dramatic Monologue "The Country Girl
The Country Girl (1954 film)
The Country Girl is a 1954 drama film adapted by George Seaton from a Clifford Odets play of the same name, which tells the story of an alcoholic has-been actor struggling with the one last chance he's been given to resurrect his career. It stars Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and William Holden. Seaton,...

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Top 10 Semi-Finalist Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1952 Jeanne Shores Azusa Miss Alhambra Dramatic Monologue 2nd runner-up Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1951 Patricia Lehman Sacramento Miss Sacramento Piano
1950 Joanne Durant
Joanne Durant
Joanne Durant is a retired female track and field sprinter from Barbados, who represented her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She won a bronze medal in the women's 4x400 metres relay at the 1999 Pan American Games, alongside Melissa Straker, Andrea Blackett, and...

San Diego
San Diego, California
San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...

Miss San Diego Vocal / Poetry Recitation "Alice Blue Gown" Semi-finalist Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1949 Jone Pedersen Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa, California
Santa Rosa is the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States. The 2010 census reported a population of 167,815. Santa Rosa is the largest city in California's Wine Country and fifth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, after San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont and 26th...

Miss Santa Rosa Dramatic Monologue "You Will Come Back" 4th runner-up Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1948 Reba Watterson Stockton Miss Stockton
1947 Laura Emery Salinas Miss Salinas Vocal "So Long For So Long" 4th runner-up
Marilyn Davidson Los Angeles Vocal / Dress Design "A Sunday Kind of Love
A Sunday Kind of Love
"A Sunday Kind of Love" is a popular song composed by Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes, and Louis Prima, published in 1946.The song has become a pop and jazz standard, recorded by many artists.- Notable recordings :...

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competed as Miss Los Angeles County in the Miss America Pageant
1946 Marilyn Buferd
Marilyn Buferd
Marilyn Buferd was Miss America in 1946. She appeared in several minor films in the 1950s as well as several foreign language films, including the notable Touchez pas au grisbi opposite Jean Gabin ....

Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

21 Miss Wilshire District Dramatic Monologue "Accent on Youth
Accent on Youth
Accent on Youth is a Broadway play written by Samson Raphaelson which debuted on Christmas Day, 1934. The plot concerns a lazy, middle-aged playwright who is spurred to write by his new young secretary. The original cast included Nicholas Hannen as playwright Steven Gaye and Constance Cummings as...

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Winner Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1945 Polly Ellis Tarzana No Locals Vocal "Cowboy Joe
Ragtime Cowboy Joe
"Ragtime Cowboy Joe" is a popular song lyrics by Grant Clarke, music by Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams. © 1912, F.A. Mills, 122 W. 36th St, New York....

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Semi-finalist Preliminary Talent Award
Phyllis Mathis San Diego Hula 1st runner-up competed as Miss San Diego in the Miss America Pageant
1944 Shirley Ballard Los Angeles No Locals
1943 Jean Bartel
Jean Bartel
Jean Bartel was Miss California and Miss America 1943. She won the talent and swimsuit awards at the national pageant. At 5 feet 8 inches tall, Bartel was the tallest pageant winner at the time...

Los Angeles 19 No Locals Vocal "Night and Day
Night and Day (song)
"Night and Day" is a popular song by Cole Porter. It was written for the 1932 musical play Gay Divorce. It is perhaps Porter's most popular contribution to the Great American Songbook and has been recorded by dozens of artists....

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Winner Preliminary Swimsuit Award; Preliminary Talent Award
1942 Lucille Lambert
Lucille Lambert
Lucille Lambert was Miss Hollywood and Miss California 1942. She finished fourth runner up at Miss America 1942.-References:...

Hollywood Miss Hollywood Vocal "Embraceable You
Embraceable You
"Embraceable You" is a popular song, with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The song was originally written in 1928 for an unpublished operetta named East is West. It was eventually published in 1930 and included in the Broadway musical Girl Crazy. where it was performed by...

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4th runner-up
1941 Rosemary LaPlanche
Rosemary LaPlanche
Rosemary E. LaPlanche was Miss America in 1941.LaPlanche, from Los Angeles, California, was Miss California in both 1940 and 1941. A new rule after her victory disallowed contestants from competing at the national level more than once. She also had an active career as a movie actress.LaPlanche...

Los Angeles 18 Miss Los Angeles Dance Winner Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1940 17 Dance 1st runner-up Preliminary Swimsuit
1939 Marguerite Skliris San Francisco Miss San Francisco Dramatic Monologue "The Poison Scene" from Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...

3rd runner-up Preliminary Talent Award
1938 Claire James Los Angeles Miss Los Angeles Dance 1st runner-up
1937 Phyllis Randall
Virginia Dale
Virginia Dale was an American film actress.She was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. She appeared in a number of movies in the 1930s and 1940s, including Holiday Inn, and became particularly associated with musicals. She left the movie business for almost three decades before returning to the...

Hollywood 20 Miss Hollywood 3rd runner-up Preliminary Talent Award Sister of Joey Augusta Paxton, Miss North Carolina
Miss North Carolina
The Miss North Carolina competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of North Carolina in the Miss America pageant. The competition has been held in Raleigh every year since 1978. Prior to that, it was held in various locales including Charlotte, Greensboro, Burlington,...

 1941.
1936 Phyllis Dobson Hollywood Miss Hollywood Dance 1st runner-up Preliminary Talent Award
1935 Virginia Donham San Francisco Miss San Francisco Vocal "Chloe
Chloe (song)
"Chloe " is a popular song and jazz standard with music by Neil Moret and lyrics by Gus Kahn.-External links:*...

" & "I Ain't Got Nobody
I Ain't Got Nobody
"I Ain't Got Nobody" was a c. 1915 song, written by Spencer Williams. Publisher Roger Graham received co-composer credits. It became a perennial standard, recorded many times over following generations, in styles ranging from pop to jazz to country music....

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Semi-finalist
1933 Blanche MacDonald Miss Venus de Milo 2nd runner-up
1927 Bertha Weizel Miss Santa Cruz Semi-finalist Bertha Weizel assumed the title when the orignial winner, Billie Copeland, was disqualified. Ruby Smith competed as Miss Oakland and was a semi-finalist. Naoma Farrand competed as Miss San Francisco and Louise Heathman from San Diego competed as Miss Southern California, despite the fact that Linda Burrage had been crowned the winner of that pageant and Almo Ingraham had been announced as the 1st runner-up.
1926 Aloha Porter Miss Venice Eleanor Twohig competed as Miss San Francisco
1925 Fay Lanphier
Fay Lanphier
Fay Elinora Lanphier was a model most noted for becoming Miss California in 1924 and Miss America in 1925. She was also the 1925 Rose Queen. To date, she is the only person to hold both titles at the same time. She is also the first Miss California to become Miss America. Before she was Miss...

Oakland 19 Miss Alameda Winner Also representing California were: Adrienne Dore, Miss Los Angeles, who placed as 1st runner-up; Edyth Flynn competed as Miss San Francisco and Yetta Haber competed as Miss Santa Cruz.
1924 No Miss California Fay Lanphier
Fay Lanphier
Fay Elinora Lanphier was a model most noted for becoming Miss California in 1924 and Miss America in 1925. She was also the 1925 Rose Queen. To date, she is the only person to hold both titles at the same time. She is also the first Miss California to become Miss America. Before she was Miss...

 competed as Miss Santa Cruz and placed as 2nd runner-up; Lillian Knight competed as Miss Los Angeles and was a Finalist in the pageant. Irma Frazier competed as Miss Oakland.
1923 No Miss California Violet Regal competed as Miss San Francisco and was a Finalist & Vera King competed as Miss Long Beach
1922 No Miss California Angela Grant competed as Miss Los Angeles in the Miss America Pageant

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