Miss Universe 1957

Miss Universe 1957
Gladys Zender
Date	19 July 1957 (1957-07-19)
Presenters	Bob Russell
Venue	Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach, California, United States
Broadcaster	CBS
Entrants	32
Placements	15
Debuts	Martinique Morocco Paraguay
Withdrawals	British Guiana Chile Dominican Republic Holland United States
Returns	Austria Ceylon Hawaii South Korea
Winner	Gladys Zender Peru
Congeniality	Mapita Mercado Cordero, Puerto Rico
Photogenic	Gerti Daub, West Germany
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Miss Universe 1957 was the sixth Miss Universe pageant, held at the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium in Long Beach, California, United States on 19 July 1957.

Gladys Zender of Peru won the contest, and was crowned by Carol Morris of the United States. Zender was the first representative of Peru to win the contest.

After her win, it was revealed that Zender was only seventeen years old, five months under the contest's minimum age requirement of eighteen. Pageant officials decided that she could keep the crown after they were told she was considered to be eighteen in her country due to an old custom explained to them by the then-Peruvian ambassador to the United States, Fernando Berckemeyer Pazos.^[1]

Contestants from thirty-two countries and territories competed in the pageant. It was hosted by Bob Russell for the sixth time.