Miss Rhode Island
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For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA
Miss USA
The Miss USA beauty contest has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA...

, see Miss Rhode Island USA
Miss Rhode Island USA
The Miss Rhode Island USA competition is the beauty pageant that selects the representative for the state Rhode Island in the Miss USA pageant....



The Miss Rhode Island competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Rhode Island
Rhode Island
The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area...

 in the Miss America
Miss America
The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...

 pageant.

Winners

Year Name Hometown Age Local Title Miss America Talent Placement at Miss America Special scholarships at Miss America Notes
2011 Robin Bonner Westhampton, NY
Westhampton, New York
Westhampton is a hamlet in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 2,869 at the 2000 census.Westhampton is in the Town of Southampton.-Geography:Westhampton is located at ....

20 Miss University of Rhode Island
University of Rhode Island
The University of Rhode Island is the principal public research university in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Its main campus is located in Kingston. Additional campuses include the Feinstein Campus in Providence, the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett, and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West...

Jazz Dance
2010 Deborah Saint-Vil Providence
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the third largest city in the New England region...

22 Miss Spirit of Hope Vocal "Smile" Top 15 semi-finalist Preliminary Talent Award winner
2009 Julianna Strout Watch Hill 24 Vocal "Come Rain or Come Shine" Non-Finalist Talent Award
2008 Francesca Simone North Smithfield
North Smithfield, Rhode Island
North Smithfield is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States, settled as a farming community in 1666 and incorporated into its present form in 1871. North Smithfield includes the historic villages of Forestdale, Primrose, Waterford, Branch Village, Union Village, Park Square, and...

22 Classical Vocal "Nessun dorma
Nessun dorma
Nessun dorma is an aria from the final act of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot, and is one of the best-known tenor arias in all opera. It is sung by Calaf, il principe ignoto , who falls in love at first sight with the beautiful but cold Princess Turandot...

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Quality of Life Award Finalist
2007 Ashley Bickford Newport
Newport, Rhode Island
Newport is a city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States, about south of Providence. Known as a New England summer resort and for the famous Newport Mansions, it is the home of Salve Regina University and Naval Station Newport which houses the United States Naval War...

22 Ballet en Pointe Preliminary Swimsuit; Miss Photogenic Triple Crown winner: Previously Miss Connecticut Teen USA
Miss Connecticut Teen USA
The Miss Connecticut Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Connecticut in the Miss Teen USA pageant. This pageant is directed Pageant Associates as of June, 2010....

 2002 and Top 10 at Miss Teen USA 2002
Miss Teen USA 2002
Miss Teen USA 2002, the 20th Miss Teen USA pageant, was televised live from South Padre Island, Texas on 28 August 2002. At the conclusion of the final competition, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA Vanessa Marie Semrow was crowned by outgoing queen Marissa Whitley of Missouri.This was the second...

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Later Miss Connecticut USA
Miss Connecticut USA
The Miss Connecticut USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Connecticut in the Miss USA pageant. This pageant is directed by Crown Productions, who took over the pageant in 2003....

 2010
2006 Allison Rogers Providence
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the third largest city in the New England region...

25 Classical Piano "Fantaisie-Impromptu
Fantaisie-Impromptu
Frédéric Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Op. posth. 66, is a solo piano composition and one of his best-known pieces. It was composed in 1834 and dedicated to Julian Fontana, who published the piece in spite of Chopin's request not to do so....

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Quality of Life Award
2005 Jessica Samson Newport 23 Vocal "It's No Secret Anymore"
2004 Aimee Belisle North Smithfield 24 Ballet en Pointe "You're a Grand Old Flag
You're a Grand Old Flag
"You're a Grand Old Flag" is a patriotic song of the United States. The song, a spirited march written by George M. Cohan, is a tribute to the U.S. flag. In addition to obvious references to the flag, it incorporates snippets of other popular songs, including one of his own...

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2003 Laurie Gray Warwick
Warwick, Rhode Island
Warwick is a city in Kent County, Rhode Island, United States. It is the second largest city in the state, with a population of 82,672 at the 2010 census. Its mayor has been Scott Avedisian since 2000...

22 Classical Violin "Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64
Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)
Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 is his last large orchestral work. It forms an important part of the violin repertoire and is one of the most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos of all time...

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Top 10 Semi-Finalist Preliminary Talent, Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship Previously Rhode Island's Junior Miss 1999
2002 Gianine Marie Teti Providence 22 Classical Vocal "Steal Me Sweet Thief" from The Old Maid and the Thief
The Old Maid and the Thief
The Old Maid and the Thief is an opera in one act by Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti. The work uses an English language libretto by the composer which tells a twisted tale of morals and evil womanly power...

2001 Jennifer Leigh D'Ambrosio Providence 21 Vocal "As If We Never Said Goodbye" from Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard (musical)
Sunset Boulevard is a musical with book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Based on the 1950 film of the same title, the plot revolves around Norma Desmond, a faded star of the silent screen era, living in the past in her decaying mansion on the...

Featured on MTV's True Life - I'm a Beauty Queen
2000 Jennifer St. Laurent Bristol
Bristol, Rhode Island
Bristol is a town in and the historic county seat of Bristol County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 22,954 at the 2010 census. Bristol, a deepwater seaport, is named after Bristol, England....

24 Vocal "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show
One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (song)
One Monkey Don't Stop No Show is a R&B song made popular by Big Maybelle in 1955 and later performed by Joe Tex in 1965. In 1966 it was covered by The Animals, and in 1972 by The Honey Cone. They also performed it on the BBC and on several live shows....

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1999 Karen Lindsay Warwick 24 Vocal "I'm a Woman
I'm a Woman (song)
The song "I'm a Woman" was written by famed songwriting duo Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, and was first recorded in 1962 by Christine Kittrell. It was also the title song to Peggy Lee's 1963 album I'm a Woman . It was a minor hit single for Lee, reaching number 54 on U.S...

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Preliminary Swimsuit Contestant at National Sweetheart
National Sweetheart
Miss National Sweetheart is a United States beauty pageant created in 1952 where runners-up from the Miss America state pageants are invited to Hoopeston, Illinois to compete for the title of Miss National Sweetheart....

 1998; Participated in The Bachelor
1998 Heather Picard Cumberland
Cumberland, Rhode Island
Cumberland is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States, incorporated in 1746. The population was 33,506 at the 2010 census.-History:...

23 Ballet en Pointe "Carmen
Carmen
Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...

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1997 Kelly Jo Roarke Cranston
Cranston, Rhode Island
Cranston, once known as Pawtuxet, is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. With a population of 80,387 at the 2010 census, it is the third largest city in the state. The center of population of Rhode Island is located in Cranston...

24 Comic Reading "Non-Bridaled Passion" Non Finalist Talent
1996 Elana Chomiszak Providence 21 Dance "Nice Work If You Can Get It
Nice Work If You Can Get It (song)
"Nice Work If You Can Get It" is a popular song.The music was written by George Gershwin, the lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was one of nine songs George Gershwin wrote for the movie A Damsel in Distress, in which it was performed by Fred Astaire with backing vocals provided by The Stafford Sisters...

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1995 Elizabeth Reilly North Providence
North Providence, Rhode Island
North Providence is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 32,078 at the 2010 census.The town has the distinction of being the smallest by area in the smallest state . Though at only , the city of Central Falls is Rhode Island's smallest municipality...

24 Miss North Providence Dance "Everybody Says Don't" from Anyone Can Whistle
Anyone Can Whistle
Anyone Can Whistle is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The story concerns a corrupt mayoress, an idealistic nurse, a man who may be a doctor, and various officials, patients and townspeople, all fighting to save a bankrupt town...

1994 Tori-Lynn Heaton Cranston
Cranston, Rhode Island
Cranston, once known as Pawtuxet, is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. With a population of 80,387 at the 2010 census, it is the third largest city in the state. The center of population of Rhode Island is located in Cranston...

24 Miss Cranston Character Jazz Dance First Sworn Police Officer to Compete at Miss America
1993 Wendy Mello Narragansett
Narragansett, Rhode Island
Narragansett is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 15,868 at the 2010 census, but there is a greater population in the summer. The nickname for the town is "Gansett". The town of Narragansett occupies a narrow strip of land running along the eastern bank...

22 Miss South County Lyrical Ballet "A Piece of Sky" from Yentl
Yentl (film)
Yentl is a 1983 romantic musical drama film from United Artists, and directed, co-written, co-produced, and starring Barbra Streisand based on the play of the same name by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer, itself based on Singer's short story, "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy".The dramatic story...

1992 Lisa Snow Cranston 23 Miss Western Cranston Dramatic Monologue Non Finalist Interview
1991 Debi Cutler North Providence 26 Miss Providence County Vocal "Shine On, Harvest Moon
Shine On, Harvest Moon
"Shine On, Harvest Moon" is the name of a popular early-1900s song credited to the married vaudeville team Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth. It was one of a series of moon related Tin Pan Alley songs of the era. The song was debuted by Bayes and Norworth in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1908 to great acclaim...

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1990 Susan Savastano East Providence
East Providence, Rhode Island
East Providence is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 47,037 at the 2010 census, making it the fifth largest city in the state.-Geography:East Providence is located at ....

22 Miss Greater Providence County Tap Dance "All Right"
1989 Gloria Berlanga Davisville
Davisville, Rhode Island
Davisville, Rhode Island was the former home of the U.S. Navy SeaBees. It was located at Quonset Point on Narragansett Bay, an area now included in the town of North Kingstown. The Navy acquired the property in 1939 and built Naval Air Station Quonset Point...

23 Miss Kent County Flute Solo
1988 Jenna Wims Pawtucket
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Pawtucket is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 71,148 at the 2010 census. It is the fourth largest city in the state.-History:...

24 Vocal Medley
1987 Cherilynn Cusick Providence 21 Miss Providence County Contemporary Ballet
1986 Barbara Longo Barrington Listed as Miss Rhode Island on Miss Rhode Island website
Toni Langello Warwick 20 Vocal "My Man
My Man
"My Man" is a 1982 single by Yoko Ono from the album It's Alright in a New Wave/calypso style. The minimalist "Let The Tears Dry" appeared on the B-side....

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competed as Miss Rhode Island in 1986 Miss America Pageant
1985 Lori Boucher Pawtucket 20 Vocal "Losing My Mind
Losing My Mind
"Losing My Mind" is a song written by Stephen Sondheim for the 1971 musical Follies for the character of a former showgirl Sally Durant Plummer.-Follies:...

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1984 Joanna Minisce North Smithfield 19 Miss Northern Rhode Island Modern Jazz Dance
1983 Pamela Hoff Providence 21 Miss Providence-Pawtucket Vocal "For Once in My Life
For Once in My Life
"For Once in My Life" is a pop song written by Ron Miller and Orlando Murden for Motown Records' Jobete publishing company in 1967 . The composition was originally recorded by Jean DuShon, while other artists, such as Tony Bennett and The Temptations, recorded slow ballad versions of the song...

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1982 Cynthia Crook Warwick 22 Miss Central Rhode Island Vocal / Dance "New York, New York
Theme from New York, New York
"Theme from New York, New York" is the theme song from the Martin Scorsese film New York, New York , composed by John Kander, with lyrics by Fred Ebb. It was written for and performed in the film by Liza Minnelli...

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1981 Kathleen Cryan Providence 23 Miss Eastern Rhode Island Jazz Dance "Electro-Phantasma" Toured with Miss America USO Troupe
1980 Dawn Potter Pascoag
Pascoag, Rhode Island
Pascoag is a census-designated place and village in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 4,742 at the 2000 census.Pascoag is one of at least eight villages that make up Burrillville...

20 Miss Northern Rhode Island Vocal / Dance "All That Jazz
All That Jazz (song)
"All That Jazz" is a song from the 1975 musical Chicago. It has lyrics by Fred Ebb and music by John Kander, and is the opening song of the musical...

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1979 Elaine Rushlow Westerly 20 Miss Southern Rhode Island Piano Solo "Bridge over Troubled Water
Bridge over Troubled Water (song)
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" is the title song of Simon & Garfunkel's album of the same name. The single was released on January 26, 1970, though it also appears on the live album Live 1969, released in 2008. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on February 28, 1970, and stayed at...

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1978 Lori Leyden Providence 21 Vocal "Everything"
1977 Tanya Kapla Middletown
Middletown, Rhode Island
Middletown is a town in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 16,150 at the 2010 census. It lies to the south of Portsmouth and to the north of Newport on Aquidneck Island, hence the name "Middletown."-Geography:...

21 Ballet en Pointe "The Dying Swan
The Dying Swan
The Dying Swan is a ballet choreographed by Mikhail Fokine in 1905 to Camille Saint-Saëns's cello solo Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des Animaux as a pièce d'occasion for the ballerina Anna Pavlova. The short ballet follows the last moments in the life of a swan, and was first presented in St....

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Actress, played Gloria Brown on The Young and the Restless
The Young and the Restless
The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...

1976 Debra Cerroni Esmond
Esmond, Rhode Island
Esmond is a historic mill village in Smithfield, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. Old County Road School, Anna M. McCabe School, East Smithfield Public Library, and the historic Allenville Mill are located in the village....

20 Miss University of Rhode Island Vocal "Much More" from The Fantasticks
The Fantasticks
The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones. It was produced by Lore Noto. It tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the play "The Romancers" by Edmond Rostand, concerning two neighboring fathers who trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into...

Previously Miss Rhode Island USA
Miss Rhode Island USA
The Miss Rhode Island USA competition is the beauty pageant that selects the representative for the state Rhode Island in the Miss USA pageant....

 1974
1975 Debra Cusick Providence 20 Dance "Promises, Promises
Promises, Promises
Promises, Promises is a musical based on the 1960 film The Apartment. The music is by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David, and book by Neil Simon. Musical numbers for the original Broadway production were choreographed by Michael Bennett; Robert Moore directed and David Merrick produced...

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Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1974 Karen Salvatore Warwick 22 Miss Rhode Island Coed Original Skit "Don't Smoke" Non-finalist Talent
1973 Patricia Garrahy North Providence 19 Ballet "Scarborough Fair
Scarborough Fair
"Scarborough Fair" is a traditional ballad of the United Kingdom.The song tells the tale of a young man, who tells the listener to ask his former lover to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she...

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1972 Michele Passarelli Pawtucket 18 Miss Pawtucket Vocal "Cabaret
Cabaret (musical)
Cabaret is a musical based on a book written by Christopher Isherwood, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 1966 Broadway production became a hit and spawned a 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....

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Toured with Miss America USO Troupe and feature performer at the 1976 Miss America Pageant
1971 Annette Charpentier Cumberland
Cumberland, Rhode Island
Cumberland is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States, incorporated in 1746. The population was 33,506 at the 2010 census.-History:...

21 Miss Cumberland Semi-Classical Vocal "Eli's Coming"
1970 Teresa Bradley East Greenwich
East Greenwich, Rhode Island
East Greenwich is a town in and the county seat of Kent County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 13,146 at the 2010 census. East Greenwich is the wealthiest municipality within the state of Rhode Island....

19 Miss North Kingston Folk Singing & Guitar "Chelsea Morning
Chelsea Morning
"Chelsea Morning" is a song written by Joni Mitchell and introduced on the singer's 1969 album Clouds..The song was inspired by Mitchell's room in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. The inspiration for the first verse comes partly from the distinct décor of her apartment...

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Non-finalist Talent
1969 Jeanne Bursley Barrington
Barrington, Rhode Island
Barrington is a town in Bristol County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 16,310 at the 2010 census.In July 2005, CNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Barrington sixth on its list of the 100 best places to live in the United States.-History:...

20 Miss North Kingston Vocal / Dance "Standing on a Corner"
1968 Arlene Pinto Warwick 21 Miss Warwick Vocal / Dance "Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 American musical film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews. The screenplay by Richard Morris focuses on a naive young woman who finds herself in the midst of a series of madcap adventures when she sets her sights on marrying her wealthy boss.The...

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1967 Marilyn Cocozza North Providence 19 Miss Pawtucket Piano / Vocal "I Have Confidence" from The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music (film)
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and with the musical...

3rd Runner Up Preliminary Talent Previously Rhode Island's Junior Miss 1966 & Semi-Finalist at America's Junior Miss
America's Junior Miss
Distinguished Young Women, formerly known as America's Junior Miss, is a national non-profit organization that provides scholarship opportunities to high school senior girls. Depending on the schedule of the various state and local programs, young women are eligible during the summer preceding...

; Featured performer for the 1968 Miss America pageant telecast
1966 Cheryl Girr Newport 18 Miss Newport Interpretive Ballet Non-finalist Talent
1965 Maureen Manton Warwick 21 Miss Warwick Dramatic Reading "The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank (play)
The Diary of Anne Frank is a stage adaptation of the book The Diary of a Young Girl. The play is a dramatization by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. It opened at the Cort Theatre, Broadway, on October 5, 1955, in a production by Kermit Bloomgarden, directed by Garson Kanin and designed by Boris...

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1964 Judy Anderson Warwick 20 Miss Warwick Vocal / Dance
1963 Sheila Guarniere Bristol Miss Bristol Piano Solo
1962 Deborah Babbitt Bristol 18 Miss Bristol Acrobatic Musical Comedy Dance
1961 Cheryl Hirst Greenville
Greenville, Rhode Island
Greenville is a village and census-designated place in the town of Smithfield in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 8,626 at the 2000 census...

18 Miss North Providence Ventriloquism & Organ "This Can't Be Love
This Can't Be Love (song)
"This Can't Be Love" is a show tune and a popular song from the 1938 Rodgers and Hart musical The Boys from Syracuse. It was also included in the 1962 musical film, Billy Rose's Jumbo, though most of the songs in that film came from the 1935 Rodgers & Hart musical Jumbo. The lyrics poke fun of the...

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Non-finalist Talent
1960 Sally Saabye Warwick 18 Miss Warwick Piano / Pantomime
1959 Michalene Chomicz Pawtucket 23 Vocal
1958 Ann Willis Cranston Miss Congeniality
1957 Beatrice Turek Providence Art Display
1956 Gail Gilmore Barrington Drama / Piano
1955 Claire Mae Emerson Pawtucket
1954 Virginia Gregory Pawtucket Speech
1953 Joyce Sandberg Providence Drama Future Miss Rhode Island USA 1954
1952 Jayne Bradshaw Westerly Classical Vocal
1947 Ellen Di Cenzo Providence Vocal
1946 Marilyn Tripp Westerly
1945 Mary Stevens Cranston Vocal "How Deep Is the Ocean?
How Deep Is the Ocean?
"How Deep Is the Ocean?" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin in 1932, and can be heard in the background of the 1933 film The Life of Jimmy Dolan...

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1937 Dorothy Mae Eden East Providence
1936 Mary Rogers Johnston
Johnston, Rhode Island
Johnston is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 28,769 at the 2010 census. Johnston is the site of the Clemence Irons House a stone-ender museum and the only landfill in Rhode Island...

1935 Beatrice McKenzie Providence competed as Miss Providence in the Miss America Pageant
Leona Mucha West Warwick competed as Miss West Warwick in the Miss America Pageant
1927 Julia Costello Providence
1925 Loretta Berchman
1924 No Miss Rhode Island There was a Miss Providence who competed but whose name is not known.
1923 No Miss Rhode Island Loretta LaFlamme competed as Miss Providence and finished as a semi-finalist in the pageant.

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