Together with Charles Laughton, Pommer discovered Maureen O'Hara, casting her in Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn (1939). Interviewed by Herbert G. Luft in 1959 for Films in Review, Maureen told him: "(Pommer) and his wife treated me like a daughter. In the two films I did for him he watched out for me in every way -- from my wardrobe and hair-do to the camera set-ups".