After a victory in a beauty contest garnered her the title "most beautiful girl in Paris," she worked as a nightclub singer there before coming to the United States after the war.
Stephanie Sigman plays Laura, a beautiful young woman whose only ambition, and only route out of poverty, is the local beauty contest.
John Maynard Keynes famously explained that the stock market is not just a beauty contest but a beauty contest in which every judge is trying to figure out the candidate whom the other judges deem the most beautiful.
Mountain landscapes so beautiful they border on the preposterous, mint-green streams opening up into crystalline fjords – make no mistake, Norway's southwestern coast would be a frontrunner in any international beauty contest.
In England this past weekend, the British comedian and master Twitterer Stephen Fry judged the Guardian Hay Festival's first-ever "most beautiful tweet" contest.
Gone is the bellhop relay among downtown hotels, with a suitcase substituting for a baton, but there still is the annual Beautiful Bulldog contest, in which owners dress up their dogs, and themselves, for walks down a runway.
Guy Murray-Bruce, the executive director of Silverbird Productions, which runs the Most Beautiful Girl contest, said he had almost resigned himself to the fact that black African women had little chance of winning an international competition in a world dominated by Western beauty ideals.
In Drake's annual Beautiful Bulldog contest, hundreds of bulldog owners bring their dogs to be judged by a celebrity panel, and the winner earns the honor of serving as the official mascot of the Drake Relays.
While Vince may be a runner up in the beautiful blogger contest, we here at Crunchgear know that members of the fairer sex are usually much more attractive than a 5-foot-3 Faulkner-esque man-child in a Quix t-shirt.
A Klan-sponsored beautiful baby contest probably wouldn't garner too many entrants in 2015, but their current Adopt-a-Highway ploy fits perfectly into this mindset.
