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Marian McKnight

マリアン・マックナイト　/　まりあん・まっくないと

American model

December 19, 1936 (age 89)　・　Manning, South Carolina, United States

South Carolina
model
beauty pageant contestant

My Take

What stays with me about Marian McKnight is the arc, not the crown. A girl from small-town South Carolina, born in 1936, taking the Miss America title in 1957 and then refusing to let that be the whole story, going on to UCLA and an acting career. I have my reservations about pageant culture, but I respect anyone who treats a tiara as a doorway rather than a destination. She belongs to that golden-era Hollywood generation, and there is a quiet grit in her trajectory that I find genuinely admirable, even decades on.

Overview

Marian McKnight is an American actress, model and former beauty pageant winner. She was crowned Miss America in 1957.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Marian McKnight
Name (Japanese): マリアン・マックナイト
Reading: まりあん・まっくないと
Born: December 19, 1936 (age 89)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Sagittarius / Rat
Origin: Manning, South Carolina, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: model / beauty pageant contestant

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: University of California, Los Angeles

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%8A%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88

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