When she was a tyke, screen actress Margaret O'Brien was always dolled up for outings by her mother- "and I loved it," she recalls. And so, like mother, like daughter. Maggie, now 39, and her second husband, Roy Thorsen, brought 9-month-old Mara Tolene Thorsen to Sunday brunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel looking like a flawless angel in white ruffles and new bonnet. Said Margaret, who is carrying on her career and will appear next in TV miniseries, Testimony of Two Men.
"She is the one person I don't mind upstaging me." In her prime Mara's mother had plenty of experience doing just that to frustrated adult actors.