Bess Myerson. Born 1924. The Bronx. Died 2014. In California. Studied music. Tried modeling. In 1945, in a borrowed bathing suit, became Miss New York. Then the first Jewish Miss America. Next, ...

LOS ANGELES - Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America and a New York political force until a series of scandals dubbed the "Bess Mess" forced her into obscurity, has died. She was 90. Myerson died ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bess Myerson, 90, the first Jewish Miss America and a frequent companion of the late New York Mayor Ed Koch who later fell from grace in a city scandal, has died after a long ...

2 BroadwayWorld Introduces My Shows Curtain Call and New Merchandise Partnership Ever since the Miss America pageant began, the beautiful contestants embodied the dreams of every young girl in the ...

Bess Myerson’s star faded when the curtain finally closed on her wild New York run — but she found a kind of serenity in her final years in California, her only granddaughter told the Daily News. “I ...

Bess Myerson, the first and only Jewish Miss America and, later, a power player in New York politics, was born on July 16, 1924. Myerson, a figure of glamour and, eventually, scandal, was a sign of ...

Barra Grant, the only child of pageant queen Bess Myerson, previews her new play, 'Miss America's Ugly Daughter,' a dark comedy premiering July 14 at The Edye in Santa Monica, the Broad Stage's ...

LOS ANGELES — Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America and a New York political force until a series of scandals dubbed the "Bess Mess" forced her into obscurity, has died. She was 90. Myerson died ...

Young Bess Myerson wanted a piano. But her father, a house painter, could not afford to buy her one. The Myersons were that species of Jew that is becoming increasingly rare in New York these days — ...

Barra Grant’s autobiographical solo play plumbs her fraught relationship with her mother, the famous politician and beauty queen Bess Myerson. By Elisabeth Vincentelli When she was hired to write a ...

LOS ANGELES — Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America and a New York political force until a series of scandals dubbed the "Bess Mess" forced her into obscurity, has died. She was 90. Ms. Myerson ...