1955 MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT in LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA 46664
"Queens of Beauty" shows the 1955 Miss Universe competition. This was only the 4th Miss Universe pageant, and was held on 22 July 1955 at the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium with 22 female competitors. Miss Sweden, 21-year-old Hillevi Rombin, won the competition and was crowned by outgoing titleholder Miriam Stevenson from USA. The first runner-up was Maribel Arrieta of El Salvador.
Winner Hillevi Rombin Schine (September 14, 1933 - June 19, 1996) was a Swedish actress and beauty queen who was crowned as Miss Sweden and then Miss Universe in 1955. She was crowned Miss Sweden Universe 1955 by Miss Sweden Universe 1954, Ragnhild Olausson. In 1996, she became the first Miss Universe title holder to pass away, when she was killed in a plane crash.
The Miss Universe pageant shown in this film was founded in 1952 by Pacific Knitting Mills, a California-based clothing company and manufacturer of Catalina Swimwear. The company was the sponsor of the Miss America pageant until 1951, when the winner, Yolande Betbeze, refused to pose for publicity pictures wearing one of their swimsuits. So in 1952 Pacific Knitting Mills organized the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, co-sponsoring them for decades to follow.
The first Miss Universe Pageant was held in Long Beach, California in 1952. It was won by Armi Kuusela from Finland, who gave up her title, though not officially, to get married, shortly before her year was completed. Until 1958, the Miss Universe title, like that of Miss America, was dated by the year following the contest, so at the time Ms. Kuusela's title was Miss Universe 1953.
Since its founding by Pacific Mills, the pageant has been organized and conducted by the Miss Universe Organization. Eventually Pacific Mills and its subsidiaries were acquired by the Kayser-Roth Corporation, which was in turn acquired by Gulf and Western Industries.
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El Salvador was beautiful, everything looked so classy back then.
Miss El Salvador the Queen
the salvador she was looking beautiful 😘😘😘
Que interesante descubrimiento que Miss El Salvador fue first finalist saludos a mis hermanos salvadoreños desde Guatemala
El Salvador queen
🇱🇰 🇱🇰 🇱🇰 Miss ceylon .. wow she is very beautiful ❤️❤️
Miriam Stevenson, the outgoing Miss Universe is my aunt. This is wonderful footage!
@waynehentley4332
4 жыл бұрын
Not true!
@mariotrance6379
3 жыл бұрын
how is she doing? have u seen her crown and scepter n trophy?
Ele salvador best!!!!
Is it me or the host kept waiting for Miss Sweden to give her “speech”? She snubbed him 😂
My mother Joan Schwartz represented Ms New Mexico 1955 in Miss USA phase both contests were together in Long Beach she appears in upper left group shot in this film.
Ceylon!! She's beautiful
6:56... Miss Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) is so beautiful...
miss Honduras Pastora Pagan Valenzuela was in the top 15. miss El Salvador first runner up
Esa corona era para Miss el salvador fue un gran robo . El salvador era la más hermosa. !! Y soy venezolano
Wow! What a treasure! Are these videos real?
@mylesgarcia4625
4 жыл бұрын
No; they're fake! Whaddya think?
Those ladies who made a speech in their mother tounge was the official Top 15 Finalist including Miss Philippines Yvonne Delos Reyes as i saw in the website of Accademic-Accelerator
3:14 Venezuela's Susana Duijm. Duijm was Top 15 in Miss Universe 1955 before crossing over to Miss World and won that title in the same year.
@brocklod3673
4 жыл бұрын
joesakic91 she was only top 15 at MU, El Salvador was 1st runner up.
@joesakic91
4 жыл бұрын
@@brocklod3673 I was thinking about another girl in another edition. My fault.
brautifull
PHILIPPINES 🇵🇭 IS BEAUTIFUL ❤️❤️❤️
Miss Philippines 🇵🇭 Yvonne Delos Reyes 5:15 6:00
@mylesgarcia4625
4 жыл бұрын
She looked so plain.
@gergerdelacruz3918
4 жыл бұрын
@@mylesgarcia4625 i agree 😢😢😢🇵🇭😢😢😢
I'm a little confused the footage itself says Miss Universe Pageant of 1956. Is it possible to view footage of the other years? My grandma was Miss Oregon of 1955, I would love to find some footage of her. I still have the trophy on my night stand.
Wait a second, they present 17 girls and that year was a Top 15 ... _France, Greece, Israel, Italy and Philippines weren't in the top that year_ . Where are _Guatemala, Honduras and Venezuela_ ?
@ricardoespinoza1299
4 жыл бұрын
Miss Venezuela who was among the top 15 Susana Duijm then went to London and won the Miss World 1955
@piggysiblings_official
9 ай бұрын
Yes I'm still confused.
@gerger1032
4 ай бұрын
as i saw in the website of Accademic-Accelerator, those ladies who had a speech in their local language was the official Top 15, Miss Philippines is one of them based on the video that we are watching.
hahaha....that's why i love miss universe pageant, classy & exciting......
Pero bien Centroamérica tiene una primera finalista y una miss universo y otras centroamericana que han llegado al top 10
Do you have miss universo 1958, luz marina Zuluaga?
La verdadera ganadora era MISS EL SALVADOR MARIBEL ARRIETA
3:20 I didn't know the West Indies used to send up one girl all together. I wonder when they started sending up individuals for each country...
@mylesgarcia4625
4 жыл бұрын
It depended on when a franchise was set up in each country.
@waynehentley4332
4 жыл бұрын
In the mid 60s.
@piggysiblings_official
9 ай бұрын
West Indies complete 3 times in Miss Universe. 1954-Evelyn Laura Andrade 1955-Noreen Campbell 1957-Angela Tong After independenced Carribbean start completing first with Virgin Islands in 1961 I believed.
Why do the ladies back then look so much older than their 21st century equivalents?
@herijaelani1846
Жыл бұрын
Its because of their hairstyles
Were they force to wear those dresses 🤔
@gerger1032
4 ай бұрын
no, they are willing to wear the swimsuit of course
Wasn't 1955 the soviet spy?