Tina Louise
Maureen excelled at sports and was fascinated by rough and athletic sports. Her passion was coupled with a natural talent for performance. Her talent was exemplified by winning pretty much every Feis award in drama or theatrical performing her country offered. Her acceptance was at the Abbey Theater by age 14 which was where she pursued her dreams of the opera stage and classical theatre. It was this path that would be modified when Charles Laughton, after seeing an audition for a film of Maureen and was mesmerized by her hauntingly beautiful eyes. Laughton together with his co-star Erich Pommer changed Maureen FitzSimons name in to "Maureen O'Hara", a slightly shorter name to be used on the marquee. They then cast her as an actress in Jamaica Inn, (1939). Maureen was under contract with Laughton to film her next film in America with RKO Pictures (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939). Maureen was able to buy her contract from Laughton following the film's success. an immense success. At the age of 19, Maureen was already in two motion-picture films in the company of Laughton.
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