Miss America 1940

Miss America 1940, the 14th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey for the first time since 1933. The finals were held on September 7, 1940.[1] Aside from the winner, Frances Burke, Miss Philadelphia, two other contestants from Pennsylvania placed among the Top 15, one representing Eastern Pennsylvania and the other from Western Pennsylvania.

Miss America 1940
DateSeptember 7, 1940
PresentersBob Russell
VenueBoardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Entrants44
Placements15
WinnerFrances Marie Burke
Philadelphia

The runner-up, Rosemary LaPlanche, would become Miss America 1941, before the pageant instituted rules preventing contestants from competing more than once.

Results
Final results Contestant
Miss America 1940
1st runner-up
2nd runner-up
3rd runner-up
4th runner-up
Top 15

Awards

Preliminary awards
Awards Contestant
Lifestyle and Fitness
Talent
gollark: I'm picking a phone to replace my mysteriously failed one, but apparently in my absence the phone market became even more bad.
gollark: It's just a solid aluminium sphere with no visible interfaces.
gollark: Can't wait for the next fully wireless iPhone.
gollark: This is not based. What happens when a better standard inevitably arises?
gollark: The best part is those baseband processors. Full access to basically all the radio hardware, decades of legacy code, entirely closed-source and probably unaudited!

References
  1. Associated Press (1940-09-09). "Miss America 1940 Says Two Sisters Are Prettier". Oshkosh Daily Northwestern. p. 7.

Secondary sources
  • Saulino Osborne, Angela (1995). "Miss Americas and their Courts". Miss America The Dream Lives On. Taylor Publishing Company. ISBN 0-87833-110-7.
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