Article: The secret one-day marriage of tina brown's father and a teenage film star; How will the British-born queen of US magazines solve the mystery of an aspiring movie producer, the virginal green-eyed siren Maureen O'Hara and their bizarre night wedding?

Byline: SHARON CHURCHER;PETER SHERIDAN

On a cold, clear day in New York, Tina Brown, the British doyenne of the American media scene, who this week was forced to close her latest venture, Talk magazine, took her 11-year-old daughter Isabel to the movies.

As with most of Brown's life - she is married to Harry Evans, former boss of Random House publishers and once Sunday Times editor - there was nothing ordinary about the trip. She was taking her daughter to a Manhattan cinema where the legendary Hollywood star Maureen O'Hara was appearing at a screening of Miracle On 34th Street. The 1947 classic, in which the young O'Hara played the mother of an even ...

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