Profile
Maureen O'Hara
Actor
Female
Born
Aug 17, 1920
Age
92
Hometown
County Dublin
Other Names
FitzSimons, Maureen
Maureen O'Hara is an Irish American film actress and singer. The famously red-headed O'Hara has been noted for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude. She often worked with director John Ford and longtime friend John Wayne.… Read More
Romance
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Enrique ParraDated 1954 - 1957
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Will PriceMarried 1941 - 1953
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George H. BrownMarried 1939 - 1941
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David RemarFling
News + Updates
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O'hara Tells (Nearly) All About The Quiet Man Rte.IeGoogle News - Aug 31, 2011
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Cong Comes Alive In Memory Of The Quiet Man Mayo NewsGoogle News - Aug 30, 2011
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Favourable Winds Sweep Sailors To Finish Line In Historic Galway Race Irish TimesGoogle News - Aug 28, 2011
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Maureen O'hara Returns To Location Of 'The Quiet Man' Irish CentralGoogle News - Aug 27, 2011
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1920
Birth
Born on August 17, 1920.
TEENAGE
1939
18 Years Old
In 1939, at the age of 19, O'Hara secretly married Englishman George H. Brown, a film producer, production assistant and occasional scriptwriter whose best known work is the first of Margaret Rutherford's 1960s Miss Marple mysteries, Murder She Said. The marriage was annulled in 1941.
TWENTIES
1941
20 Years Old
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That studio cast her in low-budget films until she was rescued by director John Ford, who cast her as Angharad in How Green Was My Valley, which won the 1941 Academy Award for Best Picture.
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1946
25 Years Old
In 1946, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States and now holds dual citizenship with the U.S. and her native Ireland.
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THIRTIES
Later that year, O'Hara married American film director William Houston Price (dialog director in The Hunchback of Notre Dame), but the union ended in 1953, reportedly as a result of his alcohol abuse.
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FORTIES
1968
47 Years Old
She married her third husband, Charles F. Blair, Jr., on March 12, 1968.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
O'Hara remained retired from acting until 1991, when she starred in the film Only the Lonely, playing Rose Muldoon, the domineering mother of a Chicago cop played by John Candy.
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1993
72 Years Old
In 1993, she was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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1999
78 Years Old
She wrote the foreword for the cookbook At Home in Ireland. In March 1999, O'Hara was selected to be Grand Marshal of New York City's St. Patrick's Day Parade.
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2004
83 Years Old
In 2004, O'Hara released her autobiography Tis Herself, co-authored with Johnny Nicoletti and published by Simon & Schuster.
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2006
85 Years Old
In 2006, O'Hara attended the Grand Reopening and Expansion of the Flying Boats Museum in Foynes, Limerick, Ireland, as a patron of the museum.
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In June 2011 she participated at the Maureen O'Hara Film Festival in Glengarriff.
O'Hara made a public appearance in Kells Co. Meath on 26 May 2012 to commemorate her father, who was born in the town.
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