MISS UNIVERSE 1956

friday, july 20, 1956

Convention Hall, Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach, California, U.S.A.

72 contestants (29 international - 43 miss usa) 

total international contestants (including miss usa): 30

PRESENTER:  BOB RUSSELL

entertainment: -

Results

1  USA  Carol Laverne Morris

2  GERMANY  Marina Orschel

3  SWEDEN  Ingrid Goude (1st RU Europe '56)

4  ENGLAND  Iris Alice Kathleen Waller (World '56)

5  ITALY  Rossana Galli

 

Top 15

ARGENTINA  Ileana Carré

BELGIUM  Lucienne Auquier

BRAZIL  Maria José Cardoso

CUBA  Marcia Rodríguez Echevarría

FRANCE  Anita Treyens

GREECE  Rita Gouma

ISRAEL  Sara Tal

MEXICO  Erna Marta Bauman

PERU  Rosa Dolores "Lola" Sabogal Morzán

VENEZUELA  Blanca "Blanquita" Heredia Osío

 

Awards

Miss Friendship  1) COSTA RICA, 2) NEW MEXICO   (Jackie Brown)

Miss Photogenic  1) GERMANY, 2) SWEDEN, 3) VENEZUELA, 4) ITALY, 5) CALIFORNIA (Shurlee Witty)

Most Popular Girl  1) IOWA (Carol Morris), 2) TEXAS (Jo Dodson), 3) GERMANY

 

Remainder

ALASKA  Barbara Maria Sellar

BRITISH GUIANA  Rosalind Iva Joan Fung

CANADA  Elaine Evelyn Bishenden

CHILE  Inelia Concepción Obach Chacana

COSTA RICA  Anabella Granados

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC  Olga Fernánda Fiallo Oliva de los Rosario

ECUADOR  Maria Mercedes Flores Espín

GUATEMALA  Ileana Garlinger Díaz

HOLLAND  Rita Schmidt (4th RU Europe '56)

ICELAND  Gudlaug Gudmundsdóttir

JAPAN  Yoshie Baba

PHILIPPINES  Isabel Escobar Rodriguez

PUERTO RICO  Antonia "Paquita" Vivo Cólon

TURKEY  Can Uysaloglu

URUGUAY  Titina Aguirre


NO SHOWS:

AUSTRALIA  Maureen Kistle

AUSTRIA  Traudl Eichinger

BOLIVIA  Consuelo Díaz Lima

BURMA  Louisa Charmaine Benson (Underage)

DENMARK  Anne Rye Nielsen

FINLAND  Sirpa Helena Koivu (Suomen Neito pageant was canceled due to lack of sponsorship, Miss Suomi took the franchise)

KOREA  Kim-mom Dong 

NICARAGUA  Aura Lila Aguilar

SWITZERLAND  Yvonne Bridel

VIRGIN ISLANDS  Miriam Edna Golden

WEST INDIES  Marlene Fenton

HAWAII  Olan Peltier

YUGOSLAVIA  Tania Velia

PARAGUAY  ???


REPLACED:

PHILIPPINES  Edith Merced Noble Nakpil


DEBUTS: Dominican Republic, Holland, Iceland, The Guianas

WITHDRAWALS:  Ceylon, El Salvador, Finland, Honduras, Korea, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Norway, West Indies

RETURNS:  Peru, Turkey


JUDGES:

1- Vincent Trotta - Dean of America's beauty judges and formerly art director of Paramount Pictures.

2- Tom Kelley - Hollywood fashion photographer.

3- Betty Jones - Manager of Slenderella International.

4- Earl Wilson - Columnist from New York. 

5- Alberto Varga - Artist and creator of the Varga Girl.

6- Claude Berr, French producer of the preliminary pageant in Europe.

7- Max Factor - Hollywood makeup artist.

8- Robert Palmer - Business executive.

9- Dorothy Kirsten - Opera singer. 

10- James H. Noguer - Professor of foreign languages at Long Beach State College.