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Mary Ann Mobley, former Miss America

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Updated February 06, 2005

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Mary Ann Mobley is the co-chairwoman of the Celebrity Club of Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA), along with her husband, actor Gary Collins. She was Miss America, 1959, went on to star in several films with Elvis Presley, and even won a Golden Globe in 1965.
In addition to her work with the CCFA, Mary Ann has made several documentaries on the plight of young people all over the world who have been victims of war and starvation. She was the only woman in the first American film crew allowed into Communist Cambodia. Mary Ann also has Crohn's Disease.

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