←                Miss America 1955,              →
the 28th Miss America pageant,
was held at the Boardwalk Hall
      in Atlantic City, New Jersey
             on September 11, 1954, marking
             the first live nationally televised broadcast
                 |      |                          of the competition;
Crowned the winner,                Lee Meriwether
later came to fame as the                  Catwoman
← in the 1966 film version of                   Batman →