Miss Universe 1957
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| Miss Universe 1957 | |
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| 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 |
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
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Miss Universe 1957 participating nations and results
Placements
| Final results | Contestant |
| Miss Universe 1957 | |
| 1st runner-up | |
| 2nd runner-up |
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| 3rd runner-up |
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| 4th runner-up | |
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Contestants
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Notes
Withdrawals
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.[citation needed]
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