Hillevi Rombin

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Hillevi Rombin (September 14, 1933 - June 19, 1996), crowned as Miss Sweden and is the fourth winner of Miss Universe in 1955.

She grew up in Uppsala, and was the Swedish national decathlon champion before she competed in the pageant. A remarkable athlete, Rombin excelled in gymnastics, track & field, and downhill snow skiing. After winning the pageant, she left Sweden for Hollywood to fulfill her acting contract with Universal Pictures, part of the prize package as Miss Universe. She studied acting along with John Gavin, Clint Eastwood, and Barbara Eden, among the other contract actors also in training. Universal put her in a couple films, with just one or two lines, to give her some exposure and experience. She can be seen in The Benny Goodman Story [1] (1955) as someone who asks for an autograph and in Istanbul [2] (1957) as a flight attendant near the end; she has small speaking roles in both films and her name can be seen in the credits. Before she would get much further with acting, she left it when she married.

During her year reign as Miss Universe, while traveling around the U.S., she met her future husband G. David Schine, whose family was in the hotel business and would later himself be in the film and music businesses. She would not pursue an acting career and instead married, soon starting a large family with Schine. They married in 1957, went on to have six children, and were married for almost 40 years until their deaths together in 1996.

She, her husband, and one of their sons died in a plane crash in 1996, the result of an engine failure shortly after take off.

Preceded by Miriam Stevenson	Miss Universe 1955	Succeeded by Carol Morris

[edit] List of Runners-up and Semi-finalists

	Name	Country
First Runner-up	Maribel Arrieta Gálvez	El Salvador
Second Runner-up	Maureen Neliya Hingert	Ceylon
Third Runner-up	Margit Nünke	Germany
Fourth Runner-up	Keiko Takahashi	Japan
Semi-Finalists	Hilda Isabel Sarli Gorrindo	Argentina
	Nicole De Mayer	Belgium
	Emília Barreto Correa Lima	Brazil
	Cathy Diggles	Canada
	Margaret Rowe	England
	María del Rosario Molina Chacón	Guatemala
	Pastera Pagán Valenzuela	Honduras
	Solveig Borstad	Norway
	Carlene King Johnson	USA
	Carmen Susana Duijm Zubillaga	Venezuela