MISS UNIVERSE 1957
friday, july 19, 1957
Convention Hall, Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach, California, U.S.A.
76 contestants (32 international - 44 miss usa)
total international contestants (including miss usa): 33
PRESENTER: BOB RUSSELL
entertainment: -
Results
1 PERU Gladys Rosa Zender Urbina
2 BRAZIL Teresinha Gonçalves Morango
3 ENGLAND Sonia Hamilton (4th RU Europe '57)
4 CUBA Maria Rosa Gamio Fernández
5 GERMANY Gerti Daub (Europe '57)
Top 15
ALASKA Martha Lehmann
ARGENTINA Mónica Lamas (replaced USA who was disqualified)
AUSTRIA Hannerl Melcher
CANADA Gloria Noakes
GREECE Lygia Karavia
ITALY Valeria Fabrizi
JAPAN Kyoko Otani
MOROCCO Jacqueline Dorella Bonilla
SWEDEN Inger Jonsson
URUGUAY Gabriela Pascal
Awards
Miss Friendship 1) PUERTO RICO, 2) SOUTH CAROLINA (Jean Spotts), 3) (tied) FRANCE, TEXASs (Gloria Hunt), TURKEY, OKLAHOMA (Rose Mary Raab), JAPAN, MEXICO
Miss Photogenic 1) GERMANY, 2) ITALY, 3) BRAZIL, 4) MARTINIQUE, 5) URUGUAY
Most Popular Girl 1) CANADA, 2) GERMANY, 3) ITALY, 4 NORTH DAKOTA (Anne-Marit Studness), 5) PUERTO RICO
Remainder
BELGIUM Janine Hanotiau
CEYLON Camellia Rosalia Perera
COSTA RICA Sonia Cristina Icaza
ECUADOR Patricia Juliana Benítez Wright
FRANCE Lisa Simon
GUATEMALA Ana Walda Olyslager
HAWAII Ramona Tong
ICELAND Bryndis Schram
ISRAEL Atara Barzilay
KOREA Hyun-ok Park
MARTINIQUE Ginette Cidalise-Montaise
MEXICO Irma Arévalo Toust
PARAGUAY Lucy Montanero Rivarola
PHILIPPINES Mary Ann Carmen Philipps Corrales
PUERTO RICO María del Pilar "Mapita" Mercado Cordero
TURKEY Guler Sirmen
USA Charlotte Sheffield
VENEZUELA Consuelo Leticia Nouel Gómez (World '57)
Disqualified
USA Leona Mary Gage (Dethroned the night before the pageant because it was discovered she was married and had children. Her 1st R.U. took the Miss USA title but the judges had already chosen the semifinalists).
NO SHOWS:
THE GUIANAS Corinne Bettencourt (expected but didn't arrive)
AUSTRALIA June Finlayson (World '57)
COLOMBIA Yolanda Pulecio Velez
DENMARK Lilian Juul Madsen
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Bélgica Margarita Mota de la Cruz
FINLAND Marita Anneli Lindahl
HOLLAND Corine Rottschaefer (winner Europe '57, SF Universe '58, winner World '59)
NORWAY Grete Lunder
POLAND Krystyna Lobodzinska
SWITZERLAND Yolanda Daetwyler
TUNISIA Daniele Boublil
WEST INDIES Diana Timp
DEBUTS: Martinique, Morocco, Paraguay
WITHDRAWALS: Chile, Dominican Republic, Holland, The Guianas
RETURNS: Austria, Ceylon, Hawaii, Korea
JUDGES:
1- Vincent Trotta - Dean of America's beauty judges and formerly art director of Paramount Pictures.
2- Alberto Varga, creator of the "Varga Girls".
3- Miyoko Yanagida - Japanese artist and Wife of the president of Japan Airlines.
4- Earl Wilson - Columnist from New York.
5- Dr. Oscar Santa Maria - prominent Brazilian doctor.
6- Roger Zeiler, President of the Miss Europe contest.
7- Reinaldo Herrera Uslar - Venezuelan writer and ex-marquis.
8- Lois J. Swanson - Associate dean of students Long Beach State College.
9- Armando R. Maribona - Cuban caricaturist and painter.