The One and Only Jewish Miss America
Hosted by Commffest Global Community Film & Arts Festival on CYA Live
4.99 USD
David Arond- Director Codi Ruttenbur- Writer “The One and Only Jewish Miss America” is the surprising story of Bess Myerson, the talented beauty queen from the Bronx, and how she won the world’s most famous beauty pageant 75 years ago, at the tail end of World War II. The film follows Bess, the middle daughter of poor Russian immigrants, from her childhood in a one-bedroom Jewish housing project apartment through the suspense-filled pageant. Impressed by the college-educated musician, the judges chose her in spite of anonymous threatening phone calls and sponsor disapproval of a Jewish pageant winner.
Featuring commffest, Rosemary Sadlier, Ann Marie MacDougall, Norman Hart, Narinder Dhaliwal