Miss Universe 1957

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

Participating Nations and Results

Miss Universe 1957, the 6th Miss Universe pageant, was held in Long Beach, California, USA for the 6th time. In this pageant thirty two contestants competed. Miss Peru, 18-year-old Gladys Zender won the competition. She was crowned by Carol Morris from USA.

Results

Placements

Special awards

Judges

Contestants

Notes

Withdrawals

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

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  Argentina 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 due to the fact that 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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