Miss America 1987, the 60th

Miss America Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 17 and 25. Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty revue", the contest is now judged on competitors' talent performances and interviews. As ...

pageant, was held at the

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on September 13, 1986 on

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. Although an entry representing the city of

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had been victorious in the pageant of 1947,

Kellye Cash Kellye Cash-Sheppard (born February 2, 1965) is an American musician and beauty pageant titleholder. Early life Cash was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Pageantry Cash was crowned Miss Tennessee 1986 and later Miss America 1987, capturing prelimin ...

became the first woman with the title

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to win the crown. She is a great-niece of the singer

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Results

Order of announcements

Top 10

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Awards

Preliminary awards

Non-finalist awards

Judges

Theodore Bikel Theodore Meir Bikel ( ; May 2, 1924 – July 21, 2015) was an Austrian-American actor, folk singer, musician, composer, unionist, and political activist. He appeared in films, including '' The African Queen'' (1951), ''Moulin Rouge'' (1952), ' ...

*Bernard J Dobroski *

Dody Goodman Dody Goodman (October 28, 1914 – June 22, 2008) was an American character actress. She played the mother of the title character in the television series ''Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'', her distinctive high-pitched voice announcing the s ...

*Sam Haskell *Bernard A Maguire *

Liliane Montevecchi Liliane Montevecchi (October 13, 1932 – June 29, 2018) was a French-Italian actress, dancer, and singer. Career Montevecchi took her first dance classes at 8 with Pierre Duprez, primo ballerino of the Opera in Paris, France. She entered the Co ...

Dee Dee Wood Dee Dee Wood (born Audrey Donella on June 7, 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American choreographer. She is best known for her work on musical films of the 1960s and 1970s. Biography Most of her well-known work was in collaboration with Marc ...

Shirley Cothran Shirley Cothran Barret (born September 18, 1952, Denton County, Texas) is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Texas. Early life and education She graduated from Denton High School in 1970 and was the second Miss America from that high ...

Contestants

References

External links

Miss America official website
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