Rose Marie Magrill
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Rosemary (stage name Rose Marie) Magrill is Miss Florida of 1939.
At the time she was crowned as Miss Florida, she was underage at only 14 years.
In order to compete in the Miss Florida pageant, girls were required to be at least 18 and were carefully screened for age, but there were 260 other girls in the contest and the woman who did the screening was momentarily distracted when Rosemary's turn came up and she got by without having to answer the all-important age question. Her true age was not revealed to the contest officials until she was already in Atlantic City competing for the Miss America title. In order to prevent embarrassing questions about why she had been allowed to slip through, she was permitted to continue with the contest where she ultimately ended up as a semi-finalist.
After the Miss America contest, she remained in New York and went on to a 30 year career as a Broadway dancer. A November 2006 article in the South Florida Sun-Sentinal lists her as a dancer with the Duke Ellington Review and George White Scandals among numerous others.
She was the cover girl for True Story magazine in October, 1939 which can be found frequently for sale on eBay. As of 2007, she is still alive and teaching dance classes weekly at the age of 82 in Pompano Beach. She never tires of dancing and frequently has to stop so that her students can catch their breaths.
