Miss Juneteenth

A young woman who lives in a desert trailer park must choose between caring for her hapless father and sick friend or fulfilling her own destiny.

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to his French chateau where she risks terrible cruelty and even death.

Marian Medford Woodstock gave up a chance twenty years ago to compete for the Miss USA beauty title in order to marry Jeffrey Woodstock. She hopes to realize her past ambitions for fame and fortune through her daughter Kay, whom she persuades to enter a local beauty contest. Kay wins and is interviewed by reporter Gil McRoberts, who advises her to get married and settle down. Jeffrey is very upset with his wife's and daughter's passion for beauty contests and, when Kay enters the national contest, he informs Marian that she must choose between him and her chase after empty honors for Kay.

A young woman's rise to fame after she wins a beauty contest is cut short when she marries an ex-convict.

To prove a point about measuring up and fitting in, Texas teen Willowdean “Dumplin’” Dickson enters a local pageant run by her ex-beauty queen mom.

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

A beauty contest turns into a hostage situation, when the Miss Galaxy competition is taken over by a gang, demanding a ransom of diamonds. Sharon, a kick-boxing actress, is the host of the show, and the thorn in the terrorists side.

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The teenagers of a rural community are confronted by the not-so-charming realities of their hometown on the eve of its annual beauty pageant.

This powerful one-woman drama from Sandra Seaton, set at Monticello in the final days before Thomas Jefferson’s death, gives a voice to Sally Hemings. Sabrina Sloan (Hamilton’s Angelica Schuyler) portrays Sally Hemings as well as Jefferson, his daughter Martha and Sally’s brother James. Amid rising family tensions, Sally struggles to ensure Jefferson’s promise to free their children is final.

A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World competition in London, resulting in overnight fame for the newly-formed organization. When the show resumed, the results caused an uproar and turned the Western ideal of beauty on its head.