| 词条 | Yolande Fox |
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| name = Yolande Fox | image = Yolande Betbeze NYWTS.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Yolande Margaret Betbeze | birth_date = {{birth date|1928|11|28}} | birth_place = Mobile, Alabama | death_date = {{death date and age|2016|02|22|1928|11|29}} | death_place = Washington, D.C. | residence = | nationality = | alma_mater = New School for Social Research | occupation = Opera singer, activist | title = Miss America 1951 | predecessor = Jacque Mercer | successor = Colleen Kay Hutchins | spouse = {{marriage|Matthew Fox|1954|1964|reason=his death in}} | partner = Cherif Guellal | children = 1 }} Yolande Margaret Betbeze Fox (November 29, 1928 – February 22, 2016) was an American singer and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss America 1951. Early lifeBetbeze was born on November 28, 1928 in Mobile, Alabama, to William, a butcher, and Ethel Betbeze.[1][1] Betbeze was raised in a strict Roman Catholic family of French Basque descent, and she attended convent schools.[2] CareerShe captured her first crown in 1949 when she won Mobile's "Miss Torch" pageant.[2] In 1950, Fox (then Betbeze) entered Miss Alabama for the scholarship opportunities the pageant presented.[3] As Miss Alabama, she traveled to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to compete in the Miss America 1951 pageant. Having been educated in a convent school, she was reluctant to pose in a swimsuit and refused to do so after she won Miss America.[4] That led the swimsuit company, Catalina, to withdraw their sponsorship of the Miss America pageant and eventually brought about the creation of the rival Miss USA pageant.[1] Fox's Miss America title, although won in 1950, was for 1951 and is the first Miss America title to be "postdated" in this manner. Due to the change, there was no Miss America 1950. The Miss America Organization has claimed that Fox's (then Betbeze's) actions were pivotal in directing pageant progress towards recognizing intellect, values, and leadership abilities, rather than focusing on beauty alone. From then on the Miss America pageant concentrated more on scholarship than beauty.[1] Fox was active in the feminist movement. After her one-year reign as Miss America; was active in the NAACP, CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), and SANE (The Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy); and studied philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Fox was an opera singer and did gain a reputation in that area. She continued to sing, appearing with the Mobile Opera Guild (now the Mobile Opera), and helped found an off-Broadway theater.[2] Personal lifeShe married movie magnate, Matthew Fox, the former president of Universal Pictures, in 1954.[5] They had one daughter, Yolande "Dolly" Fox Campbell.[4] Her husband died after 10 years of marriage. After her husband's death, she moved to Georgetown, Washington, D.C., purchasing the Newton D. Baker House from Michael Whitney Straight and his then wife Nina Gore Auchincloss. The home had previously been the residence of Jacqueline Kennedy after the assassination or John F. Kennedy in 1963.[6] Fox had a relationship with Cherif Guellal, with whom she raised her grandchild, Yolande Paris Campbell, until Guellal's death in 2009.[7] In the early 1990's Yolande Fox was contacted by the writer Philip Roth, who was doing research on the Miss America beauty pageant for his novel American Pastoral. They met and she provided him with insight into the pageant from the era Roth was writing about. On the website Web of Stories he says of her assistance, "She just opened up whole ideas for me that I couldn't have had on my own."{{cn|date=October 2018}} Fox died on February 22, 2016 in Washington, D.C. of lung cancer.[8] When she died, she still had more family including her siblings, nieces, nephews, and their children. References1. ^1 2 {{cite news |first=Sally Pearsall |last=Ericson |newspaper=Press-Register |publisher=Advance Publications |location=Mobile, AL |title=A famous Mobilian you should know: Yolande Betbeze Fox, an outspoken beauty queen |url=http://blog.al.com/live/2014/04/a_famous_mobilian_you_should_k_4.html |date=April 17, 2014 |accessdate=June 10, 2015}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite web |work=Encyclopedia of Alabama |title=Yolande Betbeze |url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1879 |accessdate=August 24, 2013 |archivedate=December 5, 2008}} 3. ^{{cite web |publisher=Miss Alabama |title=Miss Alabama History |url=http://www.missalabama.com/miss-alabama-history |accessdate=June 11, 2015}} 4. ^1 {{cite news |first=Mia |last=Watkins |newspaper=The Huntsville Times |publisher=Advance Publications |location=Huntsville, AL |title=Yolande Betbeze Fox: Alabama's first Miss America reflects on title more than 60 years later |url=http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/09/yolande_betbeze_fox_alabamas_f.html |date=September 9, 2014 |accessdate=June 10, 2015}} 5. ^{{cite web|first1=Michelle |last1=Tauber |first2=Mike |last2=Neill |first3=Lisa |last3=Russell |first4=Joanne|last4=Fowler |first5=Julie |last5=Dam |first6=Alex |last6=Tresniowski |first7=Samantha |last7=Miller |first8=Steve |last8=Dougherty |first9=Ting |last9=Yu |title= American Beauties: 80 Years |work= People |url=https://people.com/archive/american-beauties-80-years-vol-54-no-16/ |date=October 16, 2000}} 6. ^{{cite news|last1=Staff|title=Mrs. Onassis, 'Gracious Full of Pep,' D.C. Socialite Says|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/101037108/|accessdate=March 14, 2016|publisher=The Cincinnati Enquirer|date=December 7, 1975}} 7. ^http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/across-the-nationacross-the-world/2016/washington-social-diary-the-last-of-the-georgetown-dames 8. ^1 {{Cite news| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/yolande-betbeze-fox-a-miss-america-who-rebelled-dies-at-87/2016/02/25/32374126-dbda-11e5-81ae-7491b9b9e7df_story.html| title = Yolande Betbeze Fox, a Miss America who rebelled, dies at 87| last = Bernstein| first = Adam| date = February 25, 2016| newspaper = The Washington Post| language = en-US| issn = 0190-8286| access-date = February 26, 2016}} External links
| before = Jacque Mercer | title = Miss America | years = 1951 | after = Colleen Kay Hutchins }}{{succession box | before = Freida Roser | title = Miss Alabama | years = 1950 | after = Jeanne Moody }}{{s-end}}{{MissAmericas 1940–1959}}{{Alabama pageant winners}}{{Miss America}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Fox, Yolande}} 12 : 1928 births|2016 deaths|Miss America 1950s delegates|Miss America Preliminary Swimsuit winners|Miss America winners|American opera singers|American people of Basque descent|Musicians from Mobile, Alabama|Anti–nuclear weapons movement|Deaths from lung cancer|Deaths from cancer in Washington, D.C.|People from Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) |
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