SHARMAINE RUFFA GUTIERREZ-BB. PILIPINAS-WORLD

SHARMAINE RUFFA GUTIERREZ-BB. PILIPINAS WORLD 1993

MISS WORLD-SECOND PRINCESS 1993

LALAINE BENNETT-MISS PHILIPPINES-UNIVERSE 1963

LALAINE BENNETT -MISS PHILIPPINES-UNIVERSE 1963

MISS UNIVERSE 1963 THIRD RUNNER-UP

PHILIPPINE FIRST PHILIPPINE BEAUTY TO BECOME FINALIST IN THE INTERNATIONAL PAGEANT.



1963 —A 5'9" tall starlet who measured an impressive 35-23-36, Lalaine "Bing-Bing" Betia Bennett, a 19-year-old American mestiza from Bayombong, Nueva Viscaya, won third runner-up in the 1963 Miss Universe Pageant.

Miss Philippines Lalaine Betia Bennett left Manila on June 29, 1963 for Tokyo and stayed there for a week to fulfill some engagements before proceeding to Honolulu and San Francisco. She was among the first 13 official delegates to arrive in Miami Beach, Florida. Lalaine placed third runner-up to Ieda Maria Vargas of Brazil. She married her official escort in the pageant, Felix Skievasky, a US Naval Officer of Polish-Filipino descent, on Sept. 7, 1964 at the San Marcelino Church in Manila. Felix died in a plane crash in 1973.She joined the movies until she married a pilot who died in a plane crash. She's based in the United States.

CHARLENE GOZALES-BB. PILIPINAS-UNIVERSE 1994

MISS CHARLENE GONZALES-BB. PILIPINAS-UNIVERSE 1994

MISS UNIVERSE 1994 -AMONG FIVE FINALISTS

Rosa Rosal- The Movie Villainess who is really an angel in real life

She is the Famas Best Actress in 1955.

Rosa Rosal




Excerpt from Inquirer.

It took a sick boy to lead movie icon Rosa Rosal to a life of unconditional volunteer service.

Rosal can no longer remember the boy’s name, who was in a coma when the budding actress first saw him in the emergency ward of the Philippine General Hospital one day in 1948.

“He was comatose for three days. I kept on coming back. I did not know what a coma was. I had no idea what caused it. I found out that he fell from a five-story building and he was bleeding inside. He was hemorrhaging,” Rosal said in Filipino.

When the actress, then only 17, learned that the boy needed a neurologist, she called up a friend, Dr. Victor Reyes, a neurosurgeon, who readily obliged and examined the boy. Reyes said the boy needed a blood transfusion.

They got the blood and an operation was performed immediately. The boy was saved.

That incident changed Rosal’s life. “It was that boy that started it. It was then that I saw how blood, no matter how small a drop, can give life.”



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Melanie Marquez -Miss International 1979

Mimilanie Laurel Marquez was born on July 16, 1964 and became a Miss International for the year 1979.

She is from Mabalacat, Pampanga and one of the daughters of the late director, Artemio Marquez. After winning the beauty crown, she went on to to pursue a career in modelling and show business, where she uses her nickname Melanie as a screen name. She has been active as an actress, TV host, film producer, and most recently, as a celebrity endorser.

In addition to being Ms. International 1979, Melanie was also the Face of the 80s winner in New York in 1985, was first runner-up in the Supermodel competition in 1986, and was the Most Glamorous Woman in Italy, also in 1986. In 2005, she also competed in the Mrs. World pageant.

Melanie also continues to coach girls internationally in pageants, often making appearances at local ones; her most recent noted appearances included the Binibining Pilipinas World of BC 2004 pageant, and the Binibining Pilipinas World of Canada pageant, 2004. She was voted as the Most Beautiful Miss International in 2000.

Melanie had been to hell more times than what were probably enough for one lifetime. Before Adam, she already had four children from three husbands-Manuelito, 21, from action star and Pampanga Governor Lito Lapid; Mazen, 13, from an Arabian businessman; and Maxene Xuxa, 11, and Michelle Zarah, 8, from actor Derek Dee.

The twists and turns in her colorful life could shame those of a telenovela with the most convoluted script.

According to Melanie, "The most difficult part was when everything seemed to conspire against her.


Her ex-husband wanted her in jail. She said she was afraid, she'd lose custody over her two daughters. She had to run away with them and entered the US through the Mexican border because one of them didn't have valid papers.

His eldest son Manuelito rebelled against her. She had to flee to another country to lick her wounds and reassess her life.

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Margie Moran-Floreindo-Miss Universe 1973

Maria Margarita “Margie” Roxas Moran-Floirendo, from the Philippines, won the Miss Universe crown in 1973 in Athens, Greece.

The full-time university student and part-time Auggie Cordero model won the right to represent the country in the Miss Universe pageant after winning the Miss Philippines competition. Moran said that she entered the contest because of the incessant urgings of friends and family.

The 19-year-old, 5ft 6in beauty was one of the favorites during that edition, also garnering the Miss Photogenic title.

She eventually married Congressman Antonio "Tony Boy" Floirendo and settled in Davao, managing a resort called "Pearl Farm" in Samal Island.



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