Maureen Hingert Dies: ‘Gunmen From Laredo’, ‘The King And I’ Actor Was 88

Maureen Hingert, 'King and I' actress and former Miss Universe contestant, dies at 88

The actress and dancer secured a contract with Universal after placing second runner-up in the 1955 televised beauty pageant. ANL/Shutterstock Maureen Hingert in 1955Maureen Hingert, the Sri Lankan actress and former Miss Universe runner-up contestant who starred in films such as The King and I and Gun Fever, has died. She was 88.Fellow Sri Lankan actress and model Angela Seneviratne announced Hingert’s death in a Facebook post on Monday. “May h…

Maureen Hingert Dies: ‘Gunmen From Laredo’, ‘The King And I’ Actor Was 88

Maureen Hingert, who represented Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the 1955 Miss Universe pageant and went on to become an actor in such films as Gunmen From Laredo and The King and I as well as several 1950s TV series, died June 30 at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, Calif.. She was 88. Her death was announced on Facebook July 1 by Sri Lankan actress and Angela Seneviratne. Maureen Neliya Ballard was born on January 9, 1937, in Columbo, Ceylon, to …

The King and I actress and beauty pageant star Maureen Hingert dies aged 88

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‘King And I,’ ‘Gunmen From Laredo’ Actor Was 88

Maureen Hingert, the Sri Lanka-born magnificence queen who appeared as an actress in The King and I, Gun Fever and Gunmen From Laredo, has died. She was 88. Hingert died Sunday of liver failure at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, her daughter, Marisa Zamparelli, instructed The Hollywood Reporter. “It was a gorgeous and peaceable passing,” she stated. As Miss Ceylon, the 18-year-old Hingert completed second runner-up on the 1955 Miss Universe…