Maureen O'Hara

 Maureen O'Hara (born Maureen FitzSimons; 17 August 1920 - 24 October 2015) was an Irish performer and actress who became successful in Hollywood in the 1940s through the  in the 1960s. Her naturally redhead appearance was a draw for her strong and intelligent characters in Westerns and adventure films. Charles Laughton, an actor who first saw her star potential, brought her to Hollywood. On numerous occasions she also collaborated with John Ford, longtime friend John Wayne and John Ford. O'Hara was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, in an Irish Catholic family. She aspired to become an actress at the age of a child. When she was 10 years old, she trained at the Rathmines Theatre Company and the Abbey Theatre. She was offered a screen test that was rejected as unsatisfactory, but Charles Laughton saw potential, and set up for her to perform alongside him in Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn in 1939. She moved to Hollywood in the same year to co-star with him in the production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and was given the opportunity to sign a contract with RKO Pictures. Then, she had an extensive and lucrative career. She was referred to as "the Queen Of Technicolor". Her appearances in films include 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) The Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street (1947) with John Payne and Natalie Wood and Comanche Territory (1950). O'Hara starred in Rio Grande (1950) as O'Hara with John Wayne, her most close friend. The Quiet Man (1952) The Wings of Eagles(57), McLintock were the subsequent films. (1963), Big Jake (1971). Many assumed that Wayne and O'Hara had the same relationship or were married because of their chemistry. In the 1960s, O'Hara more and more took on more motherly roles as she aged, appearing in films like The Deadly Companions (1961), The Parent Trap (1961) and The Rare Breed (1966). O'Hara resigned from the film industry in 1971 but returned 20 years later with John Candy in Only the Lonely (1991).

 





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