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    Star of ‘The Quiet Man’ and ‘The Parent Trap,’ Dies at 95
    The Hollywood Reporter - ‎October‎ ‎24‎, ‎2015
    By Mike Barnes and Duane Byrge




    Maureen O’Hara, the Irish beauty whose striking red hair, crystal-green eyes and porcelain skin was so dazzling on the silver screen that she was dubbed “The Queen of Technicolor,” has died. She was 95.

    O’Hara, who played the feisty wife to onscreen husband John Wayne in five films — three of them directed by John Ford — died Saturday at her home in Boise, Idaho, Johnny Nicoletti, her longtime manager, told the Associated Press.

    “She passed peacefully surrounded by her loving family as they celebrated her life listening to music from her favorite movie, The Quiet Man,” said a statement from her family. She moved to Idaho in 2013 to be closer to her children after spending four decades in Glengarriff, Ireland. Although she was memorable in so many great Hollywood films — including The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), How Green Was My Valley (1941), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Rio Grande (1950), The Quiet Man (1952), Our Man in Havana (1959) and The Parent Trap (1961) — the Dublin native never won an Academy Award, much less received an Oscar nomination.

    That oversight was rectified when the Academy announced she would receive an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards in November 2014.

    O’Hara starred opposite Wayne in three Westerns — Rio Grande, McLintock! (1963) and Big Jake (1971) — as well as in the St. Patrick’s Day perennial The Quiet Man and the Navy biopic The Wings of Eagles (1957).

    On matching wits onscreen alongside Wayne, O’Hara said in a 2003 interview: “I was tough. I was tall. I was strong. I didn’t take any nonsense from anybody. He was tough, he was tall, he was strong and he didn’t take any nonsense from anybody. As a man and a human being, I adored him.”




    Maureen O'Hara accepts her Honorary Oscar onstage in 2014, accompanied by presenters Clint Eastwood, center, and Liam Neeson (Photo: Associated Press)


    Meanwhile, she helped Ford collect two of his four career Oscars by starring for the legendary director on the best picture winner How Green Was My Valley and The Quiet Man.

    “I knew what great directors and great actors were like,” she said of Ford (whom she called “Pappy”) in a 2010 documentary about the making of The Quiet Man, “but I have to honestly say he was the best, really the best. The meanest.

    “Believe me, I would rather work with the — pardon me — the old bastard than not.”

    In such Technicolor films as To the Shores of Tripoli (1942), the swashbucklers The Black Swan (1942) and The Spanish Main (1945) and The Quiet Man, the vibrant O’Hara pops off the screen. “Framed in Technicolor, Miss O’Hara seems more significant than a setting sun,” The New York Times once said.

    She received The Queen of Technicolor nickname from Dr. Herbert Kalmus, who invented the process.

    Born Aug. 17, 1920, Maureen FitzSimons developed an early interest in acting, auditioning for the Abbey Theatre School as a teen. Winning numerous awards and local attention, she earned a screen test in London and had one line in the British musical comedy Kicking the Moon Around (1938). She then landed her first noteworthy part in Alfred Hitchcock’s Jamaica Inn (1939), starring Charles Laughton. The actor suggested she change her name to O’Hara.

    her book. The two got along famously, even though the director socked her in the jaw during a party in 1944. She never knew why he did it.

    O’Hara appeared in 18 films in the 1950s. For At Sword’s Point (1952), which starred Cornel Wildeas D’Artagnan, she trained with a fencing coach for months and did her own stunts.

    She took on more mature roles in the 1960s, playing Hayley Mills’ mother Maggie McKendrick in The Parent Trap (she was incensed that Walt Disney ignored her contract and instead gave Mills top billing) and the wives of Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) and Spencer’s Mountain (1963), respectively.

    O’Hara starred with Fonda again in the 1973 NBC telefilm The Red Pony and in 1991 made a return to the big screen, starring as John Candy’s overbearing mother in Chris Columbus’ Only the Lonely. (She said that Candy reminded her of Laughton.) Her last credit was as the star of the 2000 CBS telefilm The Last Dance.

    O’Hara also could sing. She showcased her soprano voice on the albums Love Letters From Maureen O’Hara and Maureen O’Hara Sings Her Favorite Irish Songs and as the star of the 1960 Broadway musical Christine.

    O’Hara was married three times, most recently to aviator Charles Blair, whom she wed in 1968. They had a daughter, Bronwyn. When he was killed in a plane crash in 1978, O’Hara continued to manage his commuter seaplane business, Antilles Air Boats, in the U.S. Virgin Islands and published Virgin Islander magazine.

    Earlier, she was married to producer George Brown from 1939-41 (that union was annulled) and director Will Price, who she said was an abusive alcoholic, from 1941 until their divorce in 1953.

    Musing about what made her a star, O’Hara wrote: “I have always believed my most compelling quality to be my inner strength, something I am easily able to share with an audience. I’m very comfortable in my own skin. I never thought my looks would have anything to do with becoming a star. Yet it seems that in some ways they did.”


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