Maureen O'Hara

 Maureen O'Hara (born Maureen FitzSimons 17 August 1920 until 24 October, 2015) was an Irish singer and actress who achieved success in Hollywood throughout the 1940s to '60s. She was a natural redhead and was famous for her passionate but shrewd heroines, especially in Westerns and adventure films. Her star potential was first discovered by actor Charles Laughton, who brought her to Hollywood; and at numerous times she worked alongside director John Ford and longtime friend John Wayne. O'Hara was born in Dublin, Ireland and was raised Catholic. She was destined from her earliest years to become an actor. She trained with the Rathmines Theatre Company from the age of 10 and attended the Abbey Theatre at 14 years old. A screen test was given to her, but it did not go as well as expected. Charles Laughton, however recognized her potential and made arrangements for her to join him on stage in Alfred Hitchcock’s Jamaica Inn (1939). RKO Pictures offered her a contract. She also relocated to Hollywood in 1939 to appear alongside the director in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She had a lengthy, highly successful career and was nicknamed "the Queen of Technicolor". She was in films such as How Green Was My Valley (1941) (her first collaboration with John Ford), The Black Swan with Tyrone Power (1942), The Spanish Main (1945), Sinbad the Sailor (1947) as well as the classic Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street (1947) with John Payne and Natalie Wood and Comanche Territory (1950). O'Hara made her first film alongside John Wayne, the actor who she is closely with, in Rio Grande (1950). This was followed by The Quiet Man (1952), The Wings of Eagles (1957), McLintock! (1963), and Big Jake (2001). It was widely believed that Wayne and O'Hara were in a relationship or married due to their close connection. O'Hara became more motherly as she aged, appearing in films like The Deadly Companions (1961), The Parent Trap(61) and The Rare Breed (1966). In 1971, she resigned from the film industry. However she returned 20 years later to play with John Candy in Only the Lonely (1991).

 





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