| Title
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Name
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Hometown
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Age
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Talent
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Placement
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Awards
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Notes
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| Birmingham
|
Florine Holt
|
Birmingham
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Vocal, "Moonglow" & "A Little Bit of Heaven"
|
Top 15
|
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|
 Arkansas
|
Jean Thompson
|
Helena
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 California
|
Marguerita Skliris
|
San Francisco
|
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Dramatic Monologue, "The Poison Scene" from Romeo and Juliet
|
3rd Runner-up
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
Later known as actress Margia Dean
|
| Central Connecticut
|
Catherine Harrison
|
Derby
|
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| Charlotte
|
Marguerite Taylor
|
Charlotte
|
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 Connecticut
|
Frieda Lampar
|
Bridgeport
|
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| Coney Island
|
Grayce M. Reilly
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 District of Columbia
|
Evelyn Foster
|
|
19
|
Ballet en Pointe
|
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| Eastern New York
|
Claire E. Foley
|
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|
Vocal Comedy & Dance
|
Top 15
|
|
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| Eastern Ohio
|
Maxine Drumm
|
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| Eastern Pennsylvania
|
Emma Louise Knoell
|
Philadelphia
|
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|
 Florida
|
Rose Marie Magrill
|
Miami
|
|
Tap Dance
|
Top 15
|
|
|
 Georgia
|
Mary Durrance
|
Glennville
|
|
Vocal
|
|
|
|
 Illinois
|
Ethel Lorraine Lodbell
|
Chicago
|
|
Monologue, "From the Diary of a Contestant"
|
Top 15
|
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|
 Kansas
|
Rosemary Winslow
|
Salina
|
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 Kentucky
|
Louise Holman
|
Pineville
|
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| Lexington
|
Mattigene Palmore
|
Lexington
|
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 Maryland
|
Elaine Pasqualla
|
Crisfield
|
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 Miami
|
Irmigard Dietel
|
Miami
|
|
Vocal Medley, "See You Again", "Blue Evening", & "Solitude"
|
Top 15
|
|
|
 Michigan
|
Patricia Donnelly
|
Detroit
|
19
|
Vocal/Bass Fiddle, "To You" & "Ol' Man Mose"
|
Winner
|
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|
 Minnesota
|
Marion Rudeen
|
Minneapolis
|
|
Acrobatic Dance
|
Top 15
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
 Mississippi
|
Doris Coggins
|
Baldwyn
|
|
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|
Miss Congeniality
|
|
 Missouri
|
Margaret Ley
|
St. Louis
|
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|
 Montana
|
Lucille Chouinard
|
Fort Peck
|
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| Montgomery
|
Louise Robertson
|
Montgomery
|
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| Myrtle Beach
|
Mary Eleanor Parish
|
Myrtle Beach
|
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 New Hampshire
|
Lois Marjorie Truax
|
Nashua
|
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 New Jersey
|
Margo Lundgren
|
Harrison
|
|
Whistling Tunes Vocal, "Don't Worry About Me"
|
Top 15
|
|
|
 New Orleans
|
Frances Helen Anello
|
New Orleans
|
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 North Carolina
|
Margaret Wood
|
|
|
Vocal, "If I Didn't Care"
|
Top 15
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
 Ohio
|
Jeanne Saboda
|
Cleveland
|
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 Oklahoma
|
Bettye Cornelia Avert
|
Oklahoma City
|
|
Original Piano & Vocal, "Wondering & Dreaming"
|
1st Runner-up
|
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|
 Pennsylvania
|
Ruth Phyllis Willock
|
Pittsburgh
|
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 Philadelphia
|
Nancy Lee
|
Philadelphia
|
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 South Carolina
|
Margaret Allan Shealy
|
Clinton
|
|
Vocal, "Especially for You"
|
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| Staten Island
|
Lillian Evelyn Hessen
|
Annadale
|
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| Sun Valley
|
Louise Fletchner
|
|
|
Clarinet, "Stardust"
|
Top 15
|
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|
 Tennessee
|
Judy Jones
|
Tracy City
|
|
Vocal Medley, "I Surrender" & "Come True"
|
|
|
|
 Texas
|
Charmayne Smith
|
Dallas
|
|
Vocal, "Round Up Time in Texas"
|
Top 15
|
|
|
 Virginia
|
Rose Marie Elliot
|
Sulfolk
|
|
Vocal, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"
|
4th Runner-up
|
|
Later known on Broadway as Rose Marie Brown
|
 Washington
|
Anna Mae Schoonover
|
Seattle
|
|
Dramatic Monologue from Accent on Youth
|
2nd Runner-up
|
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| Western Tennessee
|
Louise Bussart
|
Etowah
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