Miss Universe 1955

Miss Universe 1955
Date	22 July 1955
Presenters	Bob Russell
Venue	Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach, California, USA
Entrants	33
Placements	15
Debuts	Ecuador, England, Guatemala, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
Withdraws	Australia, Hong Kong, Panama, Peru, Singapore, Thailand
Returns	Cuba, Venezuela
Winner	Hillevi Rombin Sweden
Congeniality	Maribel Arrieta  El Salvador

Participating Nations and Results.

The fourth edition of Miss Universe was held on 22 July 1955, at Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach, California, USA. They had 33 young ladies in the competition. Miss Sweden, 21-year-old Hillevi Rombin, won the competition.

Results

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss Universe 1955	Sweden - Hillevi Rombin
1st runner-up	El Salvador - Maribel Arrieta Gálvez
2nd runner-up	Ceylon - Maureen Neliya Hingert
3rd runner-up	Germany - Margit Nünke
4th runner-up	Japan - Keiko Takahashi
Top 15	Argentina - Hilda Isabel Sarli Gorrindo  Belgium - Nicole De Mayer  Brazil - Emília Barreto Correia Lima  Canada - Cathy Diggles  England - Margaret Rowe  Guatemala - María del Rosario Molina Chacón  Honduras - Pastora Pagán Valenzuela  Norway - Solveig Borstad  USA - Carlene King Johnson  Venezuela - Carmen Susana Duijm Zubillaga

Special awards

• Congeniality:  El Salvador, Maribel Arrieta Gálvez
• Most Popular Girl in Parade:  England, Margaret Rowe

Contestants

Alaska - Lorna McLeod  Argentina – Hilda Isabel Sarli Gorrindo  Belgium - Nicole De Mayer  Brazil - Emília Barreto Correia Lima  Canada - Cathy Diggles  Ceylon - Maureen Neliya Hingert  Chile - Rosa Merello Catalán  Costa Rica - Clemencia Martínez de Montis  Cuba - Gilda Marín  Ecuador - Leonor Carcache Rodríguez  El Salvador - Maribel Arrieta Gálvez  England - Margaret Rowe  Finland - Sirkku Talja  France - Claude Petit  Germany - Margit Nünke  Greece - Sonia Zoidou  Guatemala - María del Rosario Molina Chacón

Honduras - Pastora Pagán Valenzuela  Israel - Ilana Carmel  Italy - Elena Fancera  Japan - Keiko Takahashi  Korea - Kim Mee-Chong  Lebanon - Hanya Beydoun  Mexico - Yolanda Mayen  Nicaragua - Rosa Argentina Lacayo  Norway - Solveig Borstad  Philippines - Yvonne Berenguer de los Reyes  Puerto Rico - Carmen Laura Betancourt  Sweden - Hillevi Rombin  Uruguay - Inge Hoffmann  USA - Carlene King Johnson (VT)  Venezuela - Carmen Susana Duijm Zubillaga  West Indies - Noreen Campbell (Port-of-Spain, Trinidad)

National pageant notes

Debuts

•  Ecuador
•  England
•  Guatemala
•  Lebanon
•  Nicaragua
•  Ceylon

Returning countries and territories

• Cuba last competed in 1952
• Venezuela last competed in 1953.

Withdrawing countries and territories

•  Australia
•  Hong Kong
•  Panama
•  Peru
•  Singapore
•  Thailand

Did not compete

•  Denmark - Karin Pamella Rasmussen
•  Egypt - Gladir Leopardi
•  Turkey - Suna Soley

Trivia

• Ceylon, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Venezuela placed for the first time.
• Sweden won for the first time.
• Venezuela later won Miss World 1955 in London, England.
• Germany later won Miss Europe in 1956.

External links

• Pageantopolis - Official result of Miss Universe 1955