CHARLIE SEE

Charlie See was born in 1890. He was the founding owner of the company ‘Charlie See, Charlie See & Associate’. He died in Hollywood in 1949. The second owner of the pageant, Li Sun, gave the following information about him. Charlie See worked for the famous Phineas Taylor Barnum, who created the saying “A fool is born every minute” in the 1920s. (Phineas Taylor Barnum is the founder of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.) After gaining experience, he quit his job and entered the show and entertainment business directly under his own name with the Rookies pageant.

He held his first rookie pageant in Hollywood in 1923. Then he worked at the season opening events in Lake Winnipesaukee near New Hampshire.

Charlie See had his first experience organizing a beauty pageant in 1925 at the season opening of Lake Winnipesaukee.

After the dance competition in the hall, vacationing girls in the Rookies pageant directly participated in the beauty show without any experience. According to Li Sun, the idea of ​​holding a beauty contest as the opening event of the summer season was not on the agenda before. The idea came out of the blue.

There is no other information about the Miss Globe organization’s own archives regarding the Winnipesauke events.

We do not have a detailed biography about Charlie See’s origins and work. According to the information we obtained from Internet searches during the preparation of this article, the contest was attended by vacationing girls. Therefore, there were no prerequisites for participation in the contest. Only the courage of the girls to participate in the show was considered sufficient. The jury of the contest consisted of James R. Irwin, Roscoe Wright from Tilton and Edward Dorn from Boston.

At the end of the contest, the jury unanimously awarded the title of Miss Winni to Alma F. Cavagnaro, who is of German origin. Miss Cavagnaro, who is 21 years old, is the daughter of Police Inspector Miss Joseph from Boston. She is a summer resident of Lake Winnisquam. She is blonde, 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 130 pounds and has classic features. Initially given as Miss Winnipesauke, the title has transformed into a parade of beauties with its own unique design in Hollywood since 1949. The title has become Miss Globe in Hollywood.

The person we know as Charlie See worldwide today is actually Li Sun. He is known as Charlie See (aka) Li Sun. He is originally from the Malaysian Penang Island. He was born in 1910 in Penang, located on the northwest coast of the Malaysian Peninsula along the Malacca Strait. In 1942, during the Japanese attacks organized to break the British rule in Malaysia, he came to California as an immigrant via Singapore. He started working as one of the dancers of Charlie See, who was an organizer in Hollywood and staged the Moulin Rouge Can-Can cabaret in New York. After this experience, he prepared a company including Chinese dancers and acrobats from 1942 to 1948 and made a grand tour starting from the North and reaching South America. She worked as a dancer in Wonderland on Broadway and the Moulin Rouge Cabaret in Paris.

After Charlie See’s death, when no other heirs could take over the company ‘Charlie See & Charlie See Associate’, her business took over this company.

After obtaining citizenship in the United States as required by law, although his name was recorded as Li Sun in the records, those around him addressed him as Charlie See, after his deceased boss. He also started using the name Charlie See as a second name. In the documents, his name is Li Sun, who is known as Charlie See.

Thus, he was known as Charlie See in America and around the world. In the Far East, he is known by his legal name as Li Sun.

If you ask yourself; He says that he is both an actor and a good dancer, a newspaper photographer, a producer, a manager and an agency owner.

However, his real fame comes from turning beauty contests into an industry in the world. According to Mr. Li Sun himself, he followed in the footsteps of his boss Charlie See and started his first start in Hollywood by organizing an event called ‘Rookie Pageant’.

After continuing this for a while, she established the Beauty Festival. Since the early shows were in the form of a street parade, the event organizer decided who would get which title, not a jury. The girls tied the sashes with the titles given to them to their collars and sat on specially prepared thrones on the decorated TIR / Till and said hello to the public. Li Sun describes this parade as the moment when “the beauties became stars.”

OTHER TITLES BORN IN THE BEAUTY PARADE IN HOLLYWOOD

• Best Model
• Miss Bikini
• Dream Girl
• Miss Globe
• Miss World
• Miss Universe
• Miss Cosmopolitan
• Miss Intercontinental
• Mannequin de Mannequin
• Model of Model
• Miss Tourism

All these titles were later transformed into separate competition organizations and local, national, international, intercontinental and world versions were made.

Each version is made with many versions such as children, youth, professional, male, female and mixed.

Li Sun, known as Charlie See, produced the Beauty Festival under the company Charliee See & Charlie See Associate from 1950 to 1980. He became the most colorful person in the beauty and fashion show business sector with the many competitions he produced globally.

In 2004, at the age of 94, he transferred all his rights on Charlie See & Charlie See Associate to Rasim AYDIN, the owner of the Turkish Media company. The transfer covers all the titles registered or in use in his name, including the Beauty Festival, which do business worldwide.

The legal transactions were approved by the California Department of State (A) Postil on May 26, 2004. After this transaction, the legal records of all the brands in the USPTO were also updated in the name of Rasim Aydın.

Li Sun, known as Charlie See, lived in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California until the end. He died on November 2, 2007 at the age of 97.

We have compiled some of the news in the world media following his death for you. The prominent comments are as follows:

New York Times: “Charlie See, who came to the USA as an immigrant, transformed the beauty contest business into a traditional show starting from World War II and established his own empire. His contests did great work in marketing and product promotions at a time when there were no television channels yet. He added new value to the US entertainment tradition. He managed to become an important part of Hollywood culture”

Herald Tribune: “It is a long way from Malaysia to Los Angeles, Charlie See not only achieved this, but also managed to become an authority that chooses the most beautiful girls in the world. “By turning beauty contests into an industry, he added new value to America’s entrepreneurial philosophy”

Welt am Sonntag/ Reise: Charlie See and the global beauty festival company he owns went to Africa to find the “Best Miss African Face” and helped discover black models like Alex Vek. If the M-Net TV channel that broadcasts these contests is known and watched all over Africa today, it is the result of Charlie See’s initiative.

Hürriyet: The heart of the creator of beauty and modeling contests stopped at the age of 97. He left permanent marks from Malaysia to America, and from America to the entire world. Charlie See, who started the contest business with a street parade in Hollywood in 1950, died at the age of 97. He organized great beauty shows at season openings, on beaches and in meadows, when there were no television broadcasts around the world.

After 1960, he first moved the contests to the poolside of the 5-star Hollywood hotel and then to indoor halls. The contests were held in the atmosphere of a royal coronation ceremony.

Charlie See, in order to promote Turkey’s tourism potential internationally, has organized a competition in our country for more than 20 years by agreeing with textile manufacturer Süha Özgermi.

Especially Bodrum, our country’s first tourism paradise, and Halicarnassus, an inseparable part of it, owe a lot to him,” he wrote.