Beauty pageant
Miss America 1955, the 28th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 11, 1954, and marked the first live nationally televised broadcast of the competition on ABC.
Crowned the winner was Lee Meriwether, who later came to fame as co-star of the television series "Barnaby Jones" and as the character Catwoman in the 1966 film version of "Batman", and later, Lily Munster on the television series "The Munsters Today".
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