| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Movie Review

Miss America. Prod. by Lisa Ades and Lesli Klainberg. Clio, Inc., and Orchard Films, 2001. 90 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698; 1-800-344-3337; <shop@pbs.org>; <http://shop.pbs.org/education> [Sept. 23, 2002])

It all started in Atlantic City in 1921, when a group of businessmen devised a beauty contest to attract tourists to the resort after Labor Day. Since then, the Miss America pageant has survived scandals and social protests from the Right and the Left to become a national tradition, one of the longest-running television shows, and the largest scholarship organization for women in the world. This documentary illustrates the central contradictions of the pageant: It objectifies women but offers them new opportunities; and it espouses feminine modesty but sexualizes the contestants and encourages their independence. 1

In 1939 Patricia Donnelly of Michigan won the Miss America pageant. Courtesy American Experience/Miss America Organization.

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