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    French actress and beauty queen

    Christiane Martel (born Christiane Magnani on 18 January 1935) is a French actress, model and beauty queen. She became the second woman to win the Miss Universe beauty pageant in 1953.[2] She was the only French woman to hold the Miss Universe title until Iris Mittenaere in 2016. She is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

    Life and career

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    Martel was born in Nancy, France to a modest family of Italian ancestry and was raised in Piennes. Amid the Second World War, her family moved to Western France, and later, in 1940, to Loudun.[3]

    1952–1953: Pageantry

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    She was Miss Châtellerault in 1952. She was crowned Miss Cinémonde and represented France at Miss Universe 1953 where she became the second Miss Universe. She was crowned by actress Julie Adams as Miss Universe 1952, Armi Kuusela of Finland, had given up her crown.

    Martel's runners-up in the 1953 page

    Christiane Martel 1932 -

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    French Mexican actress of Italian ancestry winner of Miss universum in 1953 representing France she began acting in American films with bit parts before going to Mexico where she earned lead roles in several films including 1956's Adam and Eve, Corazon Salvaje also from 1956 and 1961's El Padre Pistolas. Her final film was the 1962 Italian film Tharus Figlio di Attila, she would marry Mexican politician Miguel Aleman Velasco who became governor of Veracruz and was the son of a former president of Mexico. They have four children, having retired from acting she would only make occasional non-acting TV appearances such as interviews and beauty pageant appearances.

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    : 7.1 / 10 Abajo El Telón (1955)
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  • Christiane Martel Profile

    (Christiane Magnani)
    18 January 36is born in Paris / Creteil, France
    ?is a sales assistant in Paris, France
    March 52is crowned “Miss Chatellerault”
    53is crowned “Miss France”
    53is crowned “Miss Universe” in Long Beach, California. She’s awarded a Universal International movie contract, a $32,000 sports car and a $2,500 wrist watch.
    c. mid-53meets Ronald “Ronnie” Marengo, the son of the owner of K&M Department Store while attending the opening of a K&M outlet in Hollywood. Each day he flies in with his helicopter to meet her.
    19 November 53announces her engagement to 22-year-old Marengo of Stockton, California. They plan to marry in January 1954.
    14 January 54marries Marengo at his parents' home in Stockton, California. He’s 22; she’s 17. Seven hundred guests attend, together with 50 photographers, and people from three TV and twelve radio stations. When applying for the license, it’s learned that she has ju