Miss Universe 1957

Miss Universe 1957, the 6th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 19 July 1957 in Long Beach, California, United States. In this pageant, 32 contestants competed. Gladys Zender of Peru won the competition, becoming the first Latin American woman to be crowned as Miss Universe, and was crowned by Carol Morris of the United States.

Miss Universe 1957
Date	19 July 1957
Presenters	Bob Russell
Venue	Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach, California, United States
Broadcaster	CBS
Entrants	32
Placements	15
Debuts	Martinique Morocco Paraguay
Withdrawals	Australia British Guiana Chile Dominican Republic Finland Holland United States
Returns	Austria Hawaii Korea Ceylon
Winner	Gladys Zender  Peru
Congeniality	Mapita Mercado Cordero  Puerto Rico
Photogenic	Gerti Daub  Germany

Results

Miss Universe 1957 participating nations and results

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss Universe 1957	Peru – Gladys Zender
1st Runner-up	Brazil – Teresinha Morango
2nd Runner-up	England – Sonia Hamilton
3rd Runner-up	Cuba – María Gamio
4th Runner-up	Germany – Gerti Daub
Semi-finalists	Alaska – Martha Lehmann  Argentina – Mónica Lamas  Austria – Hannerl Melcher  Canada – Gloria Noakes  Greece – Ligia Karavia  Italy – Valeria Fabrizi  Japan – Kyoko Otani  Morocco – Jacqueline Bonilla  Sweden – Inger Jonsson  Uruguay – Gabriela Pascal

Contestants

• Alaska - Martha Lehmann
•  Argentina - Mónica Lamas
•  Austria - Hannerl Melcher
•  Belgium - Janine Hanotiau
•  Brazil - Teresinha Gonçalves Morango
•  Canada - Gloria Noakes
•  Ceylon - Camellia Rosalia Perera
•  Costa Rica - Sonia Cristina Icaza
•  Cuba - María Rosa Gamio Fernández
•  Ecuador - Patricia Juliana Benítez Wright
•  England - Sonia Hamilton
•  France - Lisa Simon
•  Germany - Gerti Daub
•  Greece - Ligia Karavia
•  Guatemala - Ana Walda Olyslager
• Hawaii - Ramona Tong
•  Iceland - Bryndís Schram
•  Israel - Atara Barzilay
•  Italy - Valeria Fabrizzi
•  Japan - Kyoko Otani
•  Korea - Park Hyun-ok
•  Martinique - Ginette Cidalise-Montaise
•  Mexico - Irma Arévalo
•  Morocco - Jacqueline Dorella Bonilla
•  Paraguay - Lucy Montanero Rivarola
•  Peru - Gladys Zender
•  Philippines - Mary Ann Carmen Philipps Corrales
•  Puerto Rico - Mapita Mercado Cordero
•  Sweden - Inger Jonsson
•  Turkey - Guler Sirmen
•  Uruguay - Gabriela Pascal
•  Venezuela - Consuelo Nouel Gómez †

Notes

Debuts

•  Martinique
•  Morocco
•  Paraguay

Withdrawals

•  Australia - June Finlayson
•  British Guiana
•  Chile
•  Dominican Republic
•  Finland - Marita Lindahl (Miss World 1957)
•  Holland - Corine Rottschäfer (Miss Europe 1957) was ineligible to compete due to winning another international pageant. She was allowed to compete at Miss Universe the following year.
•  United States - Mary Leona Gage (see Miss USA disqualified)

Did not Compete

•  Colombia - Yolanda Pulecio Vélez

Returns

Last competed in 1953

•  Austria
•  Hawaii

Last competed in 1955

•  Ceylon
•  Korea

Awards

•  Puerto Rico - Miss Friendship (Mapita Mercado Cordero)
•  Germany - Miss Photogenic (Gerti Daub)
• Canada - Most Popular Girl (Gloria Noakes)

Miss USA Disqualified

Miss USA, Leona Gage (MD), was announced as a semi-finalist, but she was ejected from the pageant the afternoon before the final after it was discovered that she was married and the mother of two young children. Miss Argentina, Mónica Lamas, who had placed 16th in the preliminary, took over the vacated spot.

Gage was also stripped of her title and was replaced by Charlotte Sheffield (UT), but Sheffield was unable to compete because the preliminary competition had already taken place, thus marking the first and as of 2020 only time that a Miss USA did not compete at Miss Universe. Sheffield competed at Miss World 1957, but was unplaced.[1]

General References

• West, Donald (ed.). "Miss Universe 1957". pageantopolis.com. Archived from the original on February 7, 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2018.

References

1. "Former Miss USA Charlotte Sheffield Passes Away". tpnnews.one. Retrieved 3 August 2016.