A bikini pageant and some raunchier beauty contests figure in the plot. Miss . . . For adults only, but it won some critical praise. Hungarian documentary touches partly on the life of Mickey Hargitay, a native of Hungary who became Mr. Universe. Hargitay is best-known as the longtime husband of the late actress Jayne Mansfield, who was herself a veteran of many pageants.
Teen comedy focuses on a stolen sports car and a beauty contest held on a beach.
Colorful, well-acted film follows a football star and a beauty queen through 25 tumultuous years of marriage. Based on a novel by sportswriter Frank Deford, who also wrote an acclaimed book about the Miss America Pageant. Deford has a cameo role. Star Catherine Oxenberg is not pageant royalty but genuine European royalty, related to several monarchs. Treats its subject with sympathy and intelligence.