MISS UNIVERSE 1959
friday, july 24, 1959
Convention Hall, Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach, California, U.S.A.
79 contestants (33 international - 46 miss usa)
total international contestants (including miss usa): 34
PRESENTER: BYRON PALMER
entertainment: -
Results
1 JAPAN Akiko Kojima
2 NORWAY Jorunn Kristjansen
3 USA Terry Lynn Huntingdon
4 ENGLAND Pamela Anne Searle
5 BRAZIL Vera Regina Ribeiro
Top 15
BELGIUM Hélène Savigny
COLOMBIA Olga Beatriz Pumarejo Korkor
FRANCE Françoise St-Laurent
GERMANY Carmela Künzel
GREECE Zoidsa "Zoe" Kouroukli
ICELAND Sigridur Thorvaldsdóttir
ISRAEL Rina Izakov
KOREA Hyun-joo Oh
POLAND Zuzanna Cembrowska
SWEDEN Marie Louise Ekström
Awards
Miss Friendship THAILAND
Miss Photogenic ENGLAND
Most Popular Girl KOREA
Remainder
ARGENTINA Liana Cortijo
AUSTRIA Christine Spazier (winner Europe '59)
BOLIVIA Corina Taborga
BURMA Than Than Aye
CANADA Eileen Butter
COSTA RICA Ziane "Sonia" Monturiol Varand
CUBA Irma Buesa Mas
DENMARK Lisa Stolberg
ECUADOR Carlota Elena Ayala
GUATEMALA Rogelia Cruz Martínez
HAWAII Patricia F. Visser
HOLLAND Peggy Erwich
ITALY Maria Grazia Buccella
LUXEMBOURG Josée Pundel (Europe '59, World '59)
MEXICO Mirna García Dávila
PERU Guadalupe Mariátegui Hawkis
THAILAND Sodsai Venitwatana
TURKEY Ezel Olcay (Europe '58)
URUGUAY Claudia Bernat
NO SHOWS:
UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC (SYRIA) Nawal Ramli (expected but never arrived)
FINLAND Tarja Nurmi
MARTINIQUE Marie Jose Azur
MOROCCO Raymonde Valle
NICARAGUA Marcia Caldera
PARAGUAY Elvira Dos Santos Encina
PHILIPPINES Christina Matias
SCOTLAND Alice Elizabeth Jones
SURINAME Alita Visser
WEST INDIES Valerie Hardie
REPLACED:
UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC (SYRIA) Aida Kadamani
DEBUTS: Bolivia, Burma, Luxembourg
WITHDRAWALS: Alaska, Australia, British Guiana, Chile, Paraguay, Singapore, Suriname, Venezuela, West Indies
RETURNS: Austria, Iceland, Thailand, Turkey
JUDGES:
1- Vincent Trotta - Dean of America's beauty judges and formerly art director of Paramount Pictures.
2- Maxwell Arnow - Talent executive for Columbia Pictures.
3- Joseph Ruttenberg - Cinematographer.
4- Ghislaine Rendon de Amador - Ecuadorian sculptor artist.
5- Claude Berr - Official from the Miss Europe Contest.
6- Paul Iselin Wellman - American journalist and novel writer.
7- Christy Fox - Columnist of Los Angeles Times.
8- Palmi Ingvarsson - Art critic from Iceland.
9- James H. Noguer - Foreign language professor at Long Beach State College.