Maureen Hingert (Miss Ceylon) 1955
Maureen Neliya Hingert (born January 9, 1937) is a Sri Lankan model, dancer and actress. She is a Miss Universe pageant titleholder.
She was heralded a favorite for the world beauty crown together with “Miss Sweden,†“Miss USA,†“Miss England,†and “Miss El Salvador.†The Judges stated, “she is the most beautiful entrant we have ever had†.
Due to her win in the Miss Universe Pageant, she has long been revered as “putting Sri Lanka on the map†and being an ambassador to her country, Sri Lanka.
Hingert was born on January 9, 1937 in Colombo, Sri Lanka to Lionel Hingert and Lorna Mabel De Run. Her father, of Dutch people Dutch ancestry. He was the President of the Bank of Ceylon and he had extensive tea estates. The family lived in a large mansion in Ceylon
Hingert attended school at the Holy Family Convent in Colombo until she was eighteen. She studied world history, languages (English, French, Spanish, Hindustani, and Tamil), nursing and dancing.
In 1954, Hingert was crowned Miss Ceylon in her country and subsequently selected as a contestant in the 1955 Miss Universe pagent.
Following her victory in the contest, Hingert was put under contract to Universal International Studios and 20th Century Fox.
Some of the movies she appeared in include: The King and I, Fort Bowie, Gun Fever, The Adventures of Hiram Holiday, Moroccan Halk Moth, Pillars of the Sky,
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Maureen Hingert is an actress.
As an actress, Maureen Hingert has performed in movies such as " Gunmen from Laredo", released in 1959, in which she portrayed Rosita, "Gun Fever"(1958), and "Fort Bowie"(1958).
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Maureen Hingert: Timeline of her life
9 January 1937
is born in Colombo, Ceylon, of Dutch ancestry, the daughter of Lionel Hingert and Lorna Mabel de Run. Her father is president of the Bank of Ceylon and has extensive tea holdings.
c. 1942
enters the Holy Family Convent in Colombo and stays there until she is 18
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studies languages, world history, and nursing. She speaks English, French, Spanish, Hindustani, and Tamil.
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stars in a Ceylonese movie, Ram Gopal
c. 1954
is in Veit Harlan's Sterne ueber Colombo, a.k.a. Circus Girl, a German picture filmed in Ceylon
wins the role of a solo dance in Elephant Walk
25 June 1955
is crowned “Miss Ceylon” in Colombo, Ceylon
22 July 1955
is heralded a favorite for the world beauty crown together with “Miss Sweden,” “Miss USA,” “Miss England,” and “Miss El Salvador”
becomes second runner-up to Hillevi Rombin, “Miss Sweden,” in the "Miss Universe" contest held in Long Beach, California
July 1955
says: “I drink no alcoholic beverages and smoke no cigarettes.”
the judges call her “one of the most beautiful Oriental entrants we have ever had”
October 1955
is heralded to make her screen debut playing an American Indian in Universal-International’s Pillars of the Sky
is signed by 20th Century-Fox for their upcoming The King and I
26 October 1955
accompanies Ceylon's ambassador C. E. L. Wickremesinghe to a formal luncheon at the Wilton Hotel. There they dine with Mayor George Vermillion and Oscar Meinhardt, executive director of the "Miss Universe" beauty pageant.
21 January 1956
she and fellow beauty queen Hillevi Rombin attend a dinner date at the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium honoring Humberto Valenzuela, retired Chilean bank president and head of several large industries
April 1956
Jon Hall is reported paging her to play the jungle queen in his "Ramar of the Jungle" TV series
lives at the well-chaperoned Hollywood Studio Club and will study at UCLA
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performs classic Indian dances in Los Angeles
1956
tours Europe and the Middle East
1956 – 57
stars opposite Maxwell Reed as Anura, a beautiful South Seas native girl, in the British TV series “Captain David Grief.” The series is shot on location in Mexico.
October 1957
is pictured attending an installation banquet for Miss Universe Beauty Pageant officers at the Lafayette Hotel
Early April 1958
announces plans to marry Mario Armand Zamparelli, a Montrose artist, on June 4
April 1958
will start rehearsals in September for a New York stage production, Father India
1958
marries Zamparelli. He's 31; she's 21.
films Fort Bowie on location at the Kanab Movie Fort at Kanab, Utah
8 May 1959
her daughter Regina N. is born in Los Angeles. She will become renown Los Angeles concert promoter Gina Zamparelli.
15 April 1964
her daughter Marisa N. is born in Los Angeles
17 March 1967
her third daughter is born in Los Angeles
2007
resides in the Los Angeles area
Sources:
Syracuse Herald-American, Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram, The Lima News, The Lowell Sun, The Bennington Evening Banner, Oakland Tribune, Pasadena Independent, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Picture Show 1957, http://www.Ancestry.com
Lorensz Road
Lorensz Road, is a street on the landside of Bambalapitiya in Colombo 4, leading all the way down to the entrance of Saraswathi Hall and Hindu College on the left. The road ends at the Layards Road/Dawson Road intersection.
Dawson Road is now renamed to Amarasekera Mawatha after Mudaliyar ACGS Amarasekera who lived there. Dawson Road ran further down to meet Havelock Road at the point where the Colombo Colts Cricket Club is located in Colombo 5.
The beautiful Ms Maureen Hingert, Miss Ceylon, who went on to become the second runner-up at the Miss Universe Contest 1955 lived, with her parents, down Lorensz Road. The final results at the beauty pageant was as follows:-
Miss Universe 1955: HILLEVI ROMBIN Sweden
1st Runner Up: MARIBEL ARIOLA - El Salvador
2nd Runner Up: MAUREEN HINGERT - Ceylon
3rd Runner Up: MARGUT NUNKE - Germany
4th Runner Up: KEIKO TAKAHASHI - Japan
Maureen was born in Ceylon, the daughter of Lionel Hingert and Lorna Mabel de Run. She won the Miss Ceylon contest in 1955 and also in 1955 she becomes second runner-up to Hillevi Rombin, Miss Sweden, in the Miss Universe contest.
In 1956-57, under her real name she stars opposite Maxwell Reed as Anura, a beautiful South Seas native girl, in the British TV series Captain David Grief, shot on location in Mexico.
Revealing photographs of her appear in the September 1957 edition of Playboy in scenes from the film Gun Fever. In 1958 she acts in the film Fort Bowie on location at the Kanab Movie Fort at Kanab, Utah.
Source http://dutchburgherunion.org/forum/index.php?topic=26.0
more photos(from internet) may be can wrong
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