Rose Coyle

Rose Veronica Coyle (July 30, 1914 – February 24, 1988) was Miss America 1936.

Coyle was the first to receive an encore in the talent completion at a Miss America pageant; she sang "I Can't Escape from You," and she performed an eight-minute long tap dance.

[1] In 1938, Coyle married Leonard Schlessinger, the National General Manager of the Warner Bros. Theatres and had one daughter, Diane.

[2] Widowed, she married executive Robert Dingler and lived a quiet life until her death in 1988.

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