MISS UNIVERSE 1963

saturday, july 20, 1963

Convention Hall, Miami Beach Auditorium, Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

92 contestants (49 international - 43 miss usa) 

total international contestants (including miss usa): 50

PRESENTER:  GENE RAYBURN 

commentators:  JOHN DALY, ARLENE FRANCIS.

entertainment: -

Results

1  BRAZIL  Iêda Maria Brutto Vargas

2  DENMARK  Aino Korwa (2nd RU Europe '62, 1st RU Scandinavia '64, 3rd RU World '63)

3  IRELAND  Marlene Margaret McKeown (SF Nations '64)

4  PHILIPPINES  Lalaine Betia Bennett

5  KOREA  Myoung-ja Kim 

 

Top 15

ARGENTINA  Olga Galuzzi

AUSTRIA  Gertraud Bergler

COLOMBIA  Maria Cristina Alvarez González

FINLAND  Riitta Marja Hellevi Kautiainen (Scandinavia '64)

FRANCE  Monique Lemaire (2nd RU World '62, 3rd RU Nations '64)

GERMANY  Helga-Karla Ziesemer

ITALY  Gianna Serra

JAPAN  Noriko Ando

SOUTH AFRICA  Ellen Leibenberg

USA  Marite Ozers

 

Awards

Miss Amity  SCOTLAND

Miss Photogenic  IRELAND

Best National Costume  ISRAEL

 

Remainder

BAHAMAS  Sandra Louise Young

BELGIUM  Irène Godin (Europe '63, World '63, Nations '64)

BOLIVIA  Ana Maria Velasco Gutiérrez

BRITISH GUIANA  Gloria Desire Blackman

CANADA  Jane Kmita (World '63, International '64)

CEYLON  Manel de Silva

COSTA RICA  Sandra María Chrysopulos Morúa

CUBA (Free)  Alicia Margit Chia

CURACAO  Philomena Zielinski

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC  Carmen Benicia Abinader de Benito

ECUADOR  Patricia Cordova

GREECE  Despina Orgetta

HOLLAND  Elsa Onstenk (World '63)

ICELAND  Theodora Thordardóttir

ISRAEL  Sherin Ibrahim

JAMAICA  June Maxime Bowman

LUXEMBOURG  Mia Dahm

MOROCCO  Selma Rahal

NEW ZEALAND  Regina Ellen Scandrett

NICARAGUA  Leda Sánchez

NORWAY  Eva Carlberg (Scandinavia '64, SF Nations '64)

OKINAWA  Reiko Uehara

PARAGUAY  Amelia Benítez

PERU  Dora Toledano Godier

PUERTO RICO  Jeanette Blascoechea

SCOTLAND  Grace Calder W. Taylor

SPAIN  María Rosa Pérez Gómez

SURINAM  Brigitta Hougen

SWEDEN  Kerstin Margareta Jonsson (Scandinavia '64)

SWITZERLAND  Diane Tanner (1st RU Europe '63, SF Nations '63)

TRINIDAD  Jean Stoddart

TURKEY  Güler Samuray (SF World '61, International '62, Nations '63)

URUGUAY   Graciela Pintos

VENEZUELA  Irene Amelia Morales Machado

WALES  Maureen Thomas


DIDN'T COMPETE:

DAHOMEY  Francine Marcos (arrived late)

ENGLAND  Susan Pratt (arrived but had a car accident, stayed in pageant but didn't compete)


NO SHOWS:

ARUBA  Enid Marugg

BARBADOS  Hazel Eastmond

GHANA  

HAITI  Monique Cartwright

HONG KONG  Cheung Yen Ping 

LEBANON  Eleanor Abi Karam

MACAU  Ying Yun Hiu

MALAYA-SINGAPORE  Nik Azizah Nik Yahya

MEXICO  

NIGERIA  Pageant Held Late

PANAMA  Ana Cecilia Maruri

PANAMA CANAL ZONE  Ruby Thelma Bacot

PORTUGAL  Maria Penedo

TAHITI  Noela Bernardino

VIRGIN ISLANDS  Maureen Petersen


DEBUTS: Bahamas, Curacao, Okinawa, Trinidad

WITHDRAWALS:  Dahomey, England, Haiti, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Malaya, Portugal, Republic of China, Singapore, Tahiti, Virgin Islands

RETURNS:  British Guiana, Denmark, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Surinam


JUDGES:

1- Edilson Cid Varela - Brazilian newspaper publisher and director of TV Brasilia.

2- Russell Patterson - American architect, designer and creator of the Patterson Girl.

3- Kiyoshi Hara - Managing director of Asahi Corporation in Japan.

4- Earl Wilson - Syndicated columnist for the New York Post.

5- Peter Sellers - British comedy actor.