The compelling story of how a Yiddish-speaking beauty queen who grew up in the Bronx with two sisters, a gentle father and complicated mother became the first and only Jewish Miss America. Bess Myerson, a concert pianist and one of the few college graduates in the 1945 Miss America pageant, wowed the crowd with her talent and poise. The film also traces how her childhood––and the crushing crucible of anti-Semitism––shaped her ambition and her passion for racial and ethnic equality, making her a leader both during the pageant and later in life

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