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.

JOSEPHINE ESTRADA-MISS PHILIPPINES-UNIVERSE 1962

JOSEPHINE ESTRADA-MISS PHILIPPINES-UNIVERSE 1962

1962 — Miss Philippines Josephine Brown Estrada left Manila for Miami, Florida by KLM flight via Tokyo and San Francisco. She was seen off at the Manila International Airport by her good friend, Susan Roces.Josephine, who speaks fluent English and Spanish, served as an interpreter to some Latin American delegates. Josephine’s first starring-role movie, June Bride (opposite Eddie Gutierrez), was shown on June 23, 1962, a few days after she left for the pageant. After the pageant, Josephine continued her showbiz career; she was chosen by the Department of Foreign Affairs as an official Ambassadress of Goodwill to the 1965 Berlin Film Festival. She was our lone delegate to the 1965 David de Donatello Film Festival in Italy. In 1966, she received the Ciriaco Santiago Memorial Award from the FAMAS.

She is now based in the United States.