In Los Angeles, “Miss Mary Ann” hosted the show in the 1960s and 1970s. “Miss Nancy,” the San Francisco Bay Area host from 1958 to 1969, died in 2011 at age 77.

Oct. 1, 2005: Mary Ann Mobley, right, and husband Gary Collins, at the charity event Mississippi Rising, a fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina relief (AP) ...

Mary Ann Mobley, who was the first Mississippian to be crowned Miss America and who then parlayed that achievement into a successful movie career, has died. She was 77 and had been battling breast ...

In Los Angeles, “Miss Mary Ann” hosted the show in the 1960s and 1970s. “Miss Nancy,” the San Francisco Bay Area host from 1958 to 1969, died in 2011 at age 77.

Mary Ann Mobley and Gary Collins in 1971. Mary Ann Mobley, Mississippi's first Miss America and a star on TV and in movies, died today in Beverly Hills. She was 75 and had been battling breast cancer.

Miss America 1959, Mary Ann Mobley, of Brandon, Mississippi, is crowned by outgoing Miss America Marilyn Elaine Van Derbur at the annual Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, N.J., on Sept. 6, 1958.

Mary Ann Mobley, a former Miss America who went on to stage, film, and television fame died Tuesday in Beverly Hills, Calif., according to a statement from the University of Mississippi, her alma ...