Anne Marie Pohtamo (born August 15, 1955), from Helsinki, Finland became the second Finnish to claim the Miss Universe crown in 1975. August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Province Southern Finland Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki City manager Jussi Pajunen Official languages Finnish, Swedish Area - total - land ranked 342nd 185. ... Natalie Glebova of Canada is congratulated by Miss Universe 2004 Jennifer Hawkins of Australia during the Grand Finale of Miss Universe 2005 on May 31st, 2005 in Bangkok, Thailand. ...
She pursued a modeling and movie career, being credited either as Anne Pohtamo or Anne Pohtamo-Hietanen.
It was to take place in the redecorated National Gymnasium of El Salvador, transformed into a gigantic Mayan pyramid.
Scrapbook photos show the judges—Uris in a white tuxedo with frill shirt—hard at work jotting down comments and responses before selecting Miss Finland, AnneMariePohtamo, as the winner.
The Miss Universe contest is only one of numerous discoveries in the Uris archive, which first arrived at the Ransom Center in 1997, containing juvenilia, draft manuscripts, letters, medals, photographs, contracts, press releases, unpublished works, citations, invitations, and menus—the panoply of a writer's career.