How tall was Maureen O'Hara

Irish actress best remembered for roles in Miracle on 34th Street, The Quiet Man, The Parent Trap, Dance, Girl, Dance, How Green Was My Valley, Rio Grande, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Our Man in Havana and McClintock!. Celebheights read in a 1991 mercury news article Maureen stating her height: "I'm 5-foot-8; he (Wayne) was 6-foot-4", although on a 1946 certificate of naturalization she had put down 5ft 7 1/2 and weight of 125 pounds. She was said to have a 24 inch waist and in costumed clothes Maureen said it measured 18 inches.

I used to believe that I couldn't be charming and glamorous unless I weighed 110 pounds or less even though I'm a bit over 5 feet 7 inches tall. So I dieted, got down to that weight, and I looked just terrible. I went right back up to 127...
-- Shamokin News, 1956

[Never, until a confessional mood overtook her in the News studio, had she admitted to that last half-inch] "Always I'm inclined to lie and say I'm five feet, seven and a half...why, I don't know."