Miss Europe 1959

The third place winner, Maria Grazia Buccella, later made almost 50 films. Here is a photo from Sissignore (1968).

The competition for Miss Europe 1959 was the eleventh organized by the Mondial Events Organization (MEO). It was founded by the French Roger Zeiler and Claude Berr, was based in Paris and organized the competition until 2002.

The candidates had been selected in their countries of origin by national organizing committees that had concluded license agreements with MEO.

The event took place on September 6, 1959 in Palermo , Sicily . As in the two previous years, there were 15 applicants.

The participants

country	Spelling at Pageantopolis	Spelling in the native language	Participation in other competitions
Placements
1. Austria	Christl walking	Christl walking	Miss Universe 1959
2. France	Nicole Perin	Nicole Périn
3. Italy	Maria Grazia Buccella	Maria Grazia Buccella	Miss Universe 1959
4th Federal Republic of Germany	Carmela Künzel	Carmela Künzel	Miss Universe 1959
5. Holland	Petra Poul	Petra Paul
Other participants
Belgium	Michèle Goethals	Michèle Goethals	Miss World 1958
Denmark	Nettie Torp
England	Karen MacGill
Finland	Tarja Nurmi	Tarja Nurmi
Greece	Eleonora Apergi	Νόρα Απέργη (Nora Apergi)
Iceland	Margret Gunnlaugsdottir	Margrét Gunnlaugsdóttir
Luxembourg	Josée Pundel	Josée Pundel	Miss Universe 1959, Miss World 1959
Norway	Berit Grundvig	Berit Grundvig	Miss World 1959
Sweden	Monica Nordqvist	Monica Nordqvist
Turkey	Figen Ozgur	Figen Özgür

Competition of the "Comité Officiel et International Miss Europe"

Since 1951 there has been a rival European competition organized by the Comité Officiel et International Miss Europe . This was founded in 1950 by Jean Raibaut in Paris , who later relocated to Marseille . The winners wore different titles such as Miss Europe , Miss Europe or Miss Europe International .

He found from May 29 to June 3, 1959 in Joy-Parc , in French Meaux instead. There were 11 (or 12) applicants. The following placements became known:

• 1. France : Sophie d'Estrade 
• 2. Belgium : Eve Dortant 
• 3. Germany : Karin Gabor 

Other participants:

• French overseas departments and territories: Liliane Chambertin
•  Greece : Catherine Tatopoulos
• Holland: Julia Cohen Stuart
• Martinique : Marie-Jose Azur
•  Austria : Rikkie Kraner
•  Austria : Marguerite Nessler
•  Portugal : Manuela Marquez
• German Switzerland : Carola Segesser
• Romandie : Yvette Lavanchy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maria Grazia Buccella in the Internet Movie Database (English)
2. ↑ misshollandnow.com
3. ↑ Miss Europ a at Pageantopolis ( Memento from March 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Eleven candidates at gettyimages.de (excluding Miss Belgium)
5. ↑ Competition from 1951 at Pageantopolis (English) ( Memento from March 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Mondial Events Organization (MEO) ( Memento from February 8, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
• Competitions 1948 to 1959 at pageantopolis.com (English)