American actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder
Mary Leona Gage
Gage, circa 1965
Born
(1939-04-08)April 8, 1939
Longview, Texas, U.S.
Died
October 5, 2010(2010-10-05) (aged 71)
Sherman Oaks, California, U.S.
Occupations
Actress
model
beauty pageant holder
Height
5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Spouse
Gene Ennis
(m. 1953–1958)
Children
5
Beauty pageant titleholder
Title
Miss Maryland USA 1957 Miss USA 1957 (Dethroned)
Major competition(s)
Miss Maryland USA 1957 (Winner) Miss USA 1957 (Winner) (Dethroned) Miss Universe 1957 (Top 15) (Disqualified)
Mary Leona Gage (April 8, 1939 – October 5, 2010) was an American actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss USA 1957, the first from Maryland to capture the Miss USA crown. She was stripped of her title when it was revealed that she was 18, married, and the mother of two children.
MaryLeonaGage (April 8, 1939 – October 5, 2010) was an American actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss USA 1957, the first...
directed by D&D Productions. The first Miss USA winner from Maryland, MaryLeonaGage, won Miss USA 1957. However, she was later discovered to be a mother...
run-up to the year's Miss Universe pageant. At the end of the pageant, MaryLeonaGage of Maryland was declared the winner and was crowned by the outgoing...
first runner-up in the Miss USA competition. A day later, the winner, MaryLeonaGage was stripped of her title when it emerged that she was not only too...
film Scream of the Butterfly directed by Eber Lobato, co starring MaryLeonaGage, Nick Novarro and Richard Beebe. She later became the partner of Víctor...
second woman from Maryland to hold the Miss USA title; the first, MaryLeonaGage, was dethroned shortly after winning. For the first time, a question...
Fedorova was dethroned. Inherited the Miss USA title after Gage was stripped of the crown In 1957, Gage was stripped of her Miss USA title when it was revealed...
Miss USA after Shawn Weatherly became Miss Universe 1980) Miss USA 1979 Mary Therese Friel, New York Miss USA 1978 Judi Andersen, Hawaii Miss USA 1977...
assumed the title of Miss USA before this period was in 1957, when MaryLeonaGage of Maryland resigned after it was discovered she was married. The winner...
2010 – Bernard Clavel, French journalist and author (b. 1923) 2010 – MaryLeonaGage, American model and actress, Miss USA 1957 (b. 1939) 2010 – Steve Lee...
would have been the first Miss USA to have her title removed since MaryLeonaGage in 1957. It was announced that Conner would enter Caron Treatment Centers...
Sheffield was 1st runner-up at Miss USA, but succeeded the title when MaryLeonaGage was dethroned. Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant "Smoak Productions...
in 1961, 1975; Most Popular Girl in Parade in 1953, 1956. In 1957 MaryLeonaGage was disqualified to discover that she was the mother of two children...
State University Athletics. Retrieved 2020-08-31. Woestendiek, John (10 April 2005). "The long, unhappy pageant of MaryLeonaGage". The Baltimore Sun....
part of the workshops and demos, as well as for Rudolf - the Last Kiss as Mary Vetsera. She also created the role of Mercedes in The Count of Monte Cristo...
natural causes. Bernard Clavel, 87, French writer, natural causes. MaryLeonaGage, 71, American pageant queen, stripped of Miss USA (1957) title, heart...
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