Miss USA 1986- Crowning Moment

[MissoCalifornio]

Halle Berry is actually more beautiful than she was in Miss USA.

She later competed in Miss World 1986, she was Top 7 but she could won easily because she had the same type than the winner, Giselle Laronde, but more beautiful than her.

[caravaggio31]

This is one of the last edictions the 'politics' didn't win the constest but the deserver by her beauty.

Halle was very cute but never came close to Christy.

[JorgeInternacional]

Christy won fair and square. She was THE most beautiful in the pageant and won basically ALL competitions. Halle went onto 1st runner up spot because of her interview skills and great stage presence. I never found Halle even pretty, but elegant. She did well at Miss World, placing as finalist, and so did Christy at Miss Universe, getting to the runner-up spot.

[guillo110]

hermosa 

[Robergalv]

MIss Texas was really the most beautiful and smart that year 1986, I can say Christy Fishtner is the most beautiful MIss USA ever! followed by Miss USA 1989 also from Texas.

[rodolfo969]

Vanessa Williams was the first black woman to be crowned Miss America--not Miss USA--in 1984. Carol Gist was the first black woman to be crowned Miss USA in 1990. The Miss America pageant is a scholarship contest; Miss USA is a pageant to choose the USA's representative in the Miss Universe pagaent.

[latinoguy]

The judges were afraid to pick the first Black (rascist) to win in 1986 so they put her in ist runner-up.

It wasn"t until four years later,in 1990 when the first Blacvk won Miss USA

[robinquinc329]

@latinoguy The funny thing now is that most of those judges who were /are actors would give anything to have accomplished half of what Halle has in the business.

[shaqimianj]

@latinoguy lol the first black was vanessa williams silly 1984 the 2nd black was 1990

[duckapoo]

Halle looked seriously out of place at that Miss USA pageant with her beauty and killer figure. Most women in Miss USA pageants look like horses and mules in the face and have the intelligence of a brick wall. If Halle had won it would have been freaky, since we have very seldom had a beautiful Miss USA.

[DestinyUnderwood]

so cool my aunt is on here Miss.Georgia

[TCall2004]

Five winners from Texas in a row....come on!

[lianlaspinas]

RPN-9 as the official network of the Miss USA and Miss Universe Pageants since 1969.

[lianlaspinas]

In this video, the asisting in the crowning: the reigning Miss Teen USA, Kelly Hu (Hawaii) and the reigning Miss Universe Deborah Carthy-Deu (Puerto Rico).

[MissMaddy881]

i'm from louisiana and am wondering if miss louisiana ever won this pageant.

[robinquinc329]

@MissMaddy881 Louisiana has three Miss USAs: 1958.1961, and 1996.

[bianca772010]

I think this is amazing how this pageant gave Halle an award a few years ago, considering she did not win the tiltle, Halle did not win cause GOD had something better in store for her: an Emmy, Sag, Golden globe, and the big one: the OSCAR. How many Miss USA's have one any of these awards?

[rupambra]

Christy was one of the most beautiful MISS USA! Gorgeous woman!

[lightzZz10]

its all about Laura Harring, wow! (Mulholland Drive)

[Aquaria]

The camerawork and lighting on this show was abysmal in the 80s, contestants blocked out, shadows across their faces--unforgivable.

[BRUC2016]

Halle Berry is beautiful and talented. Beauty pageants don't always predict future success.  But I'm glad that Christy Fitchner won because she and I are both grads of Southern Methodist University. (From different decades)

[boricua15able]

OMG! I don't knew that Halle Berry have participated in this pageant! amazing, but Christy deserved the tittle, who cares if Halle did not win, right she's better than a beuty queen

[luvs2teach00]

WHo cares? Who remembers Christie Fitchner, People remember Halle Berry!!!!!! She became a famous academy award winner!

[LaBoricua87]

@luvs2teach00 Halle Berry became the VERY FIRST African-America to win an Oscar, ACTUALLY!!!!! She embodied the asnwer to her final question in this pageant!! The ironies of life =)

[VTMCompany]

christy proved her win by later placing 1st runner-up in the miss universe pageant...

[LaBoricua87]

@VTMCompany and Halle Berry would have done SO much better

[richieamj]

@VTMCompany and if Halle Berry got it they would have won

[DarneshaBad]

Kelly or Halle Should Have Won

[WieselVindiesel]

KELLY PARSONS should of won ,she is the prettiest of the lot.....

[gymnastmike]

@WieselVindiesel should HAVE won, not should OF won.. and you posted the same comment on every video from this year, all the same message and typo. wow.

[zzzzz87]

The previous year's winner who comes out one last time, Laura Martinez-Harring, is Laura Elena Harring, who costarred with Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive! Wow!

[PageantryGuy]

I think it's ironic that Halle Berry continues to deny having had plastic surgery. Her nose is obviously larger here than it is now. She was beautiful before her nose job, but I wish these women would OWN up to their cosmetic surgery.

[messybluesboy]

Kelly should have won!

[tintomica]

It was so exciting that I used to meet Christy Fichtner before she won the Miss USA title....

[missuniworld]

Halle Berry went to Miss World 1986 and was runner up there.

[xKeyshia18x]

This so funny to watch because i saw an old interview done in 1993 of halle recently and arsenio asked her why she smiled and she said she thought she won! she'd heard miss ohio and automatically thought it was her. She also said she was pissed she didn't win and the crown should of gone to her, and then she said something about how the winner had like 5 kids and was living in some small town so she got the better deal! lol halle is my fav actress

[robinquinc329]

Christy has three boys and is divorced from a dentist who has physical custody of their boys.

[alishasmusic]

"and then she said something about how the winner had like 5 kids and was living in some small town so she got the better deal! "

If that's true, then it's pretty low-class of Halle to say that. She sounds like a sore loser. And yes, she came out with a Hollywood career and an Oscar, but it doesn't mean she got the better deal. Halle is a good actress but she has an ugly attitude.

[xKeyshia18x]

yeh its def true it is a little rude to say that. She probably was a sore looser...

[robinquinc329]

I don't think that she was being rude or sore. She said that she thought that she had a really good chance at winning ad of course she was disappointed. Who wouldn't be getting that close?!

[JohnChgo]

We are missing the part where Bob Barker says, "Now to assist us are the reigning Miss Teen USA Allison Brown and the reigning Miss Universe Deborah Carthy-Deu from Puerto Rico....."

[robinquinc329]

They were introduced earlier and he did not say it when it was time to crown them.

[htownhomie06]

Halle Berry, a first runner-up becomes a Hollywood star just like Vanessa Williams, a disgraced ex-Miss America becoming a decorated entertainer in music, film and on Broadway.

Take a lesson! It's not about losing but the strength & resilience learned to rebound from a loss.

[hezzie12]

That Mississippi-girl looks like a poodle! XD

[VioletKrystal]

halle berry should have been miss USA for her gorgeous beauty, she's still the most beautiful star in hollywood at the age of 42 and she's a mom now

[LaBoricua87]

@VioletKrystal not even that, but Halle answered the final question SOOOOOOOOO much better!! Texas had the 2nd worse answer. UGH. I am SURE Halle did not win because she was African-America, I am SURE!! Ppl are PATHETIC sometimes geez

[LaBoricua87]

@VioletKrystal not even that, but Halle answered the final question SOOOOOOOOO much better!! Texas had the 2nd worse answer. UGH. I am SURE Halle did not win because she was African-America, I am SURE!! The first African-American winner of this pageant actually was in 1990. Ppl are PATHETIC sometimes geez

[TCall2004]

@VioletKrystal - Agreed. Halle got robbed.

[Robergalv]

@VioletKrystal she is not 42, she is right now 48 years old, she was born in 1963., bur of course is beautiful and she really should be MIss Universe 1985 because the winner that year from Pto Rico was so ugly !

[dahoss65]

Some of these girls were as dumb as a rock. Fortunetely for them, there looks have probably bailed them out throughout their lifetime.

Halle Berry was the only one to give a crisp, clear and straight to the point answer. No hesitation whatsoever.

[hawailandia]

deseo el correo de kelly, quiero escribirle, soy fan de ella desde niño.

muchas gracias desde mexicali b.c. mexico

[shane802]

Congrats to both ladies. But remember fame does not always buy happiness. There are many contestants who have not gained international fame, but are happy content, have loving children and husband, are living life to the fullest.

[greg2009]

No body remebers her. Halle Berry is who people remember and she lost Miss USA!

[chatree2001]

she so most beautyfull all time miss usa forever she great cristy fishner

[robinson62]

...probably sitting in her townhome looking at her crown in the curio eating chilli and drinking a beer.

[JohnChgo]

I heard she became an "anchorwoman" for the Disney network on cable.

[afrik88]

guys can u imagin if halle berry was the winner....i mean she s gorgeous!!!!

[edgarjosealvarado]

Y de verdad que estoy cansado de ver este video y no reconocia a Halle

[Afnia]

Nadie se imaginaba en aquellos ayeres que Miss OHIO se convertiría en unos años en la primera mujer Afro-Americana en ganar un Oscar...el destino es cabrón, porque de Miss USA 1986 después de su participación en Miss Universe 1986 no se supo nada.

[edgarjosealvarado]

Ah OK yo pensaba que Halle Berry habia sido miss USA, con razon que no daba con el año, fue que participo en 1986. Gracias por que me aclaraste la duda con tu comentario.

[eronsi]

Great hair Mississippi...

[mindmenagerie]

Right at the part where Bob thanks all the ladies "for taking part in tonight's pageant," and you'll see a funny reaction by one of the contestants standing to the right (our left) of the wicker "throne"- she stretches her hands reluctantly in a big gesture of "Whatever!" Then she leans in with a kind of bitchy posture and says something to another contestant who seems to ignore her. Methinks she's not amused.

[anyc321]

I've always wondered what would have happened if you switched it. I think Halle could have won Miss Universe and Christy Miss World.

[XtremeVibe]

I think no matter who Miss USA was, Barbara would have won Miss Universe. But I think Halle could have pulled 1st runner up just like Christy.

[Lakewood99]

Miss California, Kelly Parsons, should have won. Kelly's the REAL Miss USA!

[Munster82]

you crazy

[bray20]

christy is the most beautiful miss usa ever. with chelsea(2005), aly(1996) & Shannon(1992)

[shatzi]

Kelly Parsons was on the New Mickey Mouse Club in the mid-70s.

[contactme99]

Ohio's Halley and Texas' Christy both did well, but Christy certainly deserved that win. Christy also represented the US very well in the Miss Universe Pageant and almost bagged the prize in that tight competition. Halle also did well in the Miss World Pageant and was a semifinalist...

[pedrososa]

Yes, Christy represented the US very well in the Miss Universe Pageant of 1986. She was the first runner up. Miss Universe that year was Barbara Palacios from Venezuela

[mahjongazian]

Halley Berry is great, but the overall best contestant is still Christy Fitchner. Christy's final answer also nail her the win!

[TerryT1976]

True, but years later, Halle Berry would win and Emmy and and Oscar in years to come! This was a start of something big!

[mahjongazian]

But that is not a fair assessment of what happened on the night that actually counts! If you are talking about a lifetime achievement award for any beauty delegate, Halle Berry would be one to beat, as the Miss USA organization did already back in 1997 honouring her with a special achievement award, and that was before she did INTRODUCING DOROTHY DANDRIGE and MONSTER'S BALL!

[Lakewood99]

Halle who?

[latinoguy]

Halley Berry should have won.

Laura Martinez-Herring looked great.

She was the first girl to win the crown who was born outside of the USA.

She was born in Mexico.

[jivecake]

Miss USA 1963, Marite Ozers from Illinois was the first girl born outside of the USA to win Miss USA. She was born in Latvian.

[latinoguy]

no such country exists called 'Latvian",,you must mean "Latvia"

[jivecake]

She was from Latvia. I found this information on Miss USA Magic website. Click on "Miss USA" and "Miss USA History: 1961-1970".

[jivecake]

She was from Latvia. I found this information on Miss USA Magic website

[JohnChgo]

My friend Vilnis Birnbaums from Riga, Latvia knows Marite Ozers. Marite is very involved in the Latvian community here in the Chicago area!

[JohnChgo]

Laura is the THIRD Miss USA born outside the USA. The second was Miss USA 1966, Maria Remenyi of California. She was born in Hungary and raised in Denmark, or vice versa, I'm not sure.

[jhencc]

Who is the first?

[piculin7]

Halle berry