Miss Europe 1927, was the first ever edition
Miss Europe pageant and the only edition under
Fanamet, the European distributor of
Paramount. It was first held at
Sofiensaal in
Vienna,
Austria on 5 February 1927. After the original panel of 12 judges couldn't decide the winner, a "runoff" was held on 15 March 1927 in
Berlin,
Germany. The winner was chosen by
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau who then starred in a movie directed by him. Štefica Vidačić of
Yugoslavia emerged victorious, and was crowned Miss Europe 1927 and the first ever Miss Europe.[1][2][3][4]
^ Štefica Vidačić: The neglected muse. Biography of the novel of the film musician and UFA general music director Willy Schmidt-Gentner. Frieling, Berlin 1995,
ISBN3-89009-804-5, S. 48–50
^Ida Ograjšek Gorenjak: Hollywood comes to Central Europe: the Fanamet beauty contest in Central and Southeastern Europe, in: Iskra Iveljić (Hrsg.): The Entangled Histories of Vienna, Zagreb and Budapest (18th-20th Century), FF-Press, Zagreb 2015,
ISBN978-953-175-584-9, S. 222
^Numerous Croatian websites celebrated the 90th anniversary of "their" first Miss Europe on March 15, 2017, for example
Zagrepčanka u Berlinu proglašena miss Europe – 1927, accessed on 11 June 2017. The sentence Zagrepčanka Štefica Vidačić postala je Miss Europe na natjecanju koje je održano u Berlinu 15. ožujka 1927. godine. means: "The Zagreb woman Štefica Vidačić was Miss Europe in the competition that took place on March 15, 1927 in Berlin."