Miss Universe 1957

Miss Universe 1957
Date	19 July 1957
Presenters	[Ed Hennessy (entertainer)]
Venue	Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach, California, USA
Entrants	32
Placements	15
Debuts	Martinique, Morocco, Paraguay
Withdrawals	British Guiana, Chile, Dominican Republic, USA, Australia, Finland
Returns	Austria, Hawaii, Korea, Ceylon
Winner	Gladys Zender  Peru
Congeniality	Mapita Mercado Cordero  Puerto Rico
Photogenic	Gerti Daub  Germany

Miss Universe 1957, the 6th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 19 July 1957 in Long Beach, California, USA. 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 USA.

Results

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

Special awards

Awards	Contestant
Miss Congeniality	Puerto Rico - Mapita Mercado Cordero
Miss Photogenic	Germany - Gerti Daub
Most Popular Girl in Parade	Canada - Gloria Noakes

Judges

Vincent Trotta, New York (Chief Judge) Armando R. Maribona, Cuba Dr. Oscar Santa Maria, Brazil Lois J. Swanson, Long Beach State College Reinaldo Herrera Uslar, Venezuela

Alberto Vargas, Peru Earl Wilson, New York Mrs. Miyoko Yanagida, Tokyo Roger Zeiler, France

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 Rosa Zender Urbina  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

Withdrawals

•  Australia - June Finlayson
•  Colombia - Yolanda Pulecio Vélez
•  Finland - Marita Lindahl

Crossovers

Miss World 1957:  Venezuela - Consuelo Nouel

Miss Europe 1957:  England - Sonia Hamilton (4th runner-up) 1957:  Germany - Gerti Daub (2nd runner-up, Miss Photogenic)

Miss USA Disqualified

•  USA - Miss USA 1957 Leona Gage (MD), was announced as a semi-finalist, but she was ejected from the pageant the day before the final after it was discovered that she was married and the mother of two young children; therefore Miss  Argentina, Mónica Lamas, who had placed 16th in the preliminary, took over the vacated spot and Gage was stripped off her title as Miss USA and was replaced by Charlotte Sheffield. However, Sheffield was not able to compete because the preliminary competition already took place with Gage competing in it, marking the first time that a Miss USA would not compete at Miss Universe. Sheffield would therefore compete at Miss World 1957 but was unplaced.

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