Miss Universe 1970
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Miss Universe 1970, the 19th Miss Universe
Miss Universe
Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....

 pageant, was won by Marisol Malaret
Marisol Malaret
Marisol Malaret Contreras was the very first Puerto Rican woman to be crowned Miss Universe.-Biography:She started to work from an early age due to the death of her father and chronic illness of her mother...

 of Puerto Rico
Miss Puerto Rico
Miss Puerto Rico is the common name or sash used to identify a Puerto Rican representative in an international pageant. Currently, Miss Universe Puerto Rico, Miss Mundo de Puerto Rico and Miss Earth Puerto Rico are the official national preliminaries to the Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss Earth...

. It took place on July 11, 1970 at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on a barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter which separates the Beach from Miami city proper...

, United States. The delegates also visited Expo '70
Expo '70
was a World's Fair held in Suita, Osaka, Japan between March 15 and September 13, 1970. The theme of the Expo was "Progress and Harmony for Mankind." In Japanese Expo '70 is often referred to as Ōsaka Banpaku...

, Osaka
Osaka
is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...

, Japan.

Placements

Final results Contestant
Miss Universe 1970
  •  Puerto Rico - Marisol Malaret
    Marisol Malaret
    Marisol Malaret Contreras was the very first Puerto Rican woman to be crowned Miss Universe.-Biography:She started to work from an early age due to the death of her father and chronic illness of her mother...

1st runner-up
  •  United States - Deborah Shelton
    Deborah Shelton
    Deborah 'Debbie' Shelton is an American beauty queen and actress who held the Miss USA title and appeared on Dallas for three seasons.-Pageants:In 1970 Shelton competed in the Miss Virginia USA pageant to spite her then boyfriend...

  • 2nd runner-up
  •  Australia - Joan Lydia Zealand
  • 3rd runner-up
  •  Japan - Jun Shimada
  • 4th runner-up
  •  Argentina - Beatriz Martha Gross
  • Top 15
  •   Brazil
    Miss Brasil
    The Miss Brasil Pageant is a beauty contest that has been held almost every year since 1954 between winners of the Brazilian state pageants.It is one of the most important beauty contest of the world, with USA and Venezuela...

    - Eliane Fialho Thompson
  •  Czechoslovakia - Kristina Hanzalová
  •  Greece - Angelique Bourlessa
  •  Guam - Hilary Anne Best
  • ' - Mabel Hawkett
  •  Italy - Anna Zamboni
  •  Malaysia - Josephine Lena Wong Jaw Leng
  •  Sweden - Britt Johansson
    Kristina Wayborn
    Kristina Wayborn is a Swedish-born actress who worked mostly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.- Biography :...

  •  Switzerland - Diane Jane Roth
  •  Venezuela - Bella La Rosa
    Bella La Rosa
    Bella Mercedes La Rosa de La Rosa is a pageant titleholder, was born in Cagua, Aragua, Venezuela on 1950. She is the Miss Venezuela titleholder for 1970, and was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss Universe 1970 pageant held in Miami Beach, Florida, USA, on July 11, 1970, when she...


  • Order of announcement of semifinalists

    • Group 1: Malaysia, Greece, Hong Kong, Argentina, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, & Puerto Rico
    • Group 2: Australia, Italy, Brazil, Venezuela, Japan, Guam, Sweden & USA

    Special awards

    Award Contestant
    Miss Congeniality
    •  Guam - Hilary Anne Best
    Miss Photogenic
  •  Bermuda - Margaret Hill
  • Expo Queen
  •  Malaysia - Josephine Lena Wong Jaw Leng
  • Best National Costume
  •  Bolivia - Roxana Brown Trigo

  • Contestants




    Panel of judges

    • Julio Alemán
      Julio Alemán
      - Biography :After studying to be an Engineer Agronomist, he turned to show business. His first movie was El Zarco in 1957. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was the MC of the Mexican version of the Italian children's puppet show Topo Gigio....

    • Pearl Bailey
      Pearl Bailey
      Pearl Mae Bailey was an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968...

    • Edilson Cid Varela
    • Eileen Ford
      Eileen Ford
      Eileen Ford is a model agency executive and co-founder, in 1946, with her late husband Gerard William "Jerry" Ford, of Ford Models, one of the earliest and internationally best known modelling agencies in the world.-Early life:...

    • Sukichiro Hirae
    • Yousuf Karsh
      Yousuf Karsh
      Yousuf Karsh, CC was a Canadian photographer of Armenian heritage, and one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time.-Biography:...


    • Dong Kingman
      Dong Kingman
      Dong Kingman was a Chinese American artist and one of America's leading watercolor masters. As a painter on the forefront of the California Style School of painting, he was known for his urban and landscape paintings as well as his graphic design work in the Hollywood film industry...

    • David Merrick
      David Merrick
      David Merrick was a prolific Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer.-Life and career:Born David Lee Margulois to Jewish parents in St. Louis, Missouri, Merrick graduated from Washington University, then studied law at the Jesuit-run Saint Louis University School of Law...

    • Line Renaud
      Line Renaud
      - Early life :Line Renaud was born in Pont-de-Nieppe on 2 July 1928. Her mother Simone was a shorthand typist; her father was a truck driver during the week, but he played trumpet at the weekends, in a local brass band...

    • Corinna Tsopei
      Corinna Tsopei
      Kiriaki "Corinna" Tsopei is a beauty pageant winner and actress. In 1964, Tsopei became the first Greek winner of the Miss Universe pageant.-Career:...

    • Earl Wilson
      Earl Wilson
      Robert Earl Wilson was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox , Detroit Tigers and San Diego Padres . Wilson batted and threw right-handed...



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