The libel case taken by Maureen O'Hara against Confidential magazine was revisited in a 2019 episode of the "You Must Remember This" podcast . Confidential, considered The National Enquirer of its day, ran a sensational story in 1957 entitled "It was the Hottest Show in Town when Maureen O’Hara Cuddled in Row 35” which claimed that Irish starlet Maureen O'Hara and a Latino man had been seen making out at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. According to Confidential, the manager of the theater had seen the pair stretched out across three seats with the Latin lover on top, and he had to ask them to leave.
They didn't, and he came back again to see O’Hara seated in the Latino man’s lap, so he threw them out. As the Confidential writer noted, “Maureen had entered Grauman’s wearing a white silk blouse neatly buttoned. Now it wasn’t.
The guy had come in wearing a spruce blue suit. Now he wasn’t. The coat was off, his collar was open, and his tie was hanging limply at half-mast in the steam.
” The allegation was shocking - O’Hara had a pristine reputation, a conservative Irish lass with no time for casting couch shenanigans. At the time of the Confidential story, O'Hara already had two marriages to her credit. One with George Brown - the father of the famed magazine editor Tina Brown - who she met on the set for Jamaica Inn, her first film, shortly before she set out for Hollywood from Ireland.
Their marriage was annulled in 1941. Maureen O'Hara in "The Quiet .