The Great American Beauty Contest

The Great American Beauty Contest

74 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Feb. 13, 1973

The pursuit by America's loveliest girls for a coveted beauty crown is threatened by a scandal which implicates a judge, a former winner, and one of the five finalists.

The Great American Beauty Contest

74 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Feb. 13, 1973

The Great American Beauty Contest
The pursuit by America's loveliest girls for a coveted beauty crown is threatened by a scandal which implicates a judge, a former winner, and one of the five finalists.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers ABC Circle Films, Spelling-Goldberg Productions
Original title The Great American Beauty Contest
Directors Jon C. Andersen, Bonnie Prendergast, Robert Day
Writers Stanford Whitmore

Cast

Eleanor Parker

as Peggy Lowery

Robert Cummings

as Dan Carson (as Bob Cummings)

Louis Jourdan

as Ralph Dupree

JoAnna Cameron

as Miss Oklahoma, Gloria Rockwell

Farrah Fawcett

as Miss Texas, T.L. Dawson

Tracy Reed

as Miss New Jersey, Pamela Parker

Kathrine Baumann

as Miss Ohio, Melinda Wilson

Susan Damante

as Miss Maine, Angelique

Christopher Norris

as Miss Utah

Patricia Barry

as Kay Earnshaw

Brett Somers

as Miss Texas Chaperone

Ryan MacDonald

as Elliot

Larry Wilcox

as Joe Bunch

Carol Veazie

as Miss Ohio Chaperone

Myrna Fahey

as Miss Utah Chaperone

Barbara Dodd

as Miss New Jersey Chaperone

Julie Mannix

as Shirley

Carol Bagdasarian

as Mary Lou

Mady Maguire

as Lib Girl

Valerie Fitzgerald

as Lib Girl

Barbi Benton

as Miss Iowa

Susan Anton

as Betty Sue Allen - Last Year's Queen

Mario Machado

as TV Announcer

Vernon Scott

as Newsman #1

Will Tusher

as Newsman #2

Morton Moss

as Male Judge #1

Joe Pilcher

as Male Judge #2

Joan Crosby

as Female Judge #1

Norma Lee Browning

as Female Judge #2

Charlie Douglas

as Miss Indiana (uncredited)

Bob Harks

as Photographer (uncredited)