{"id":39973,"date":"2015-10-25T20:12:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T09:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=39973"},"modified":"2015-10-25T20:12:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T09:42:34","slug":"vale-maureen-ohara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2015\/10\/25\/vale-maureen-ohara\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale – Maureen O’Hara"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maureen O’Hara – 1920-2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Legendary Hollywood actress Maureen O’Hara, one of the last remaining stars of cinema’s Golden Age, has passed away<\/p>\n

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Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1920, Ms O’Hara was the second oldest of six children to a clothier, her father’s business. From an early age she desired to be an actress, predominantly on the stage, and attended schooling at Dublin’s Abbey Theater.<\/p>\n

Following a screen test she reportedly wasn’t happy with, she was spotted by Charles Laughton, a noted actor\/producer at the time, who signed her up to his fledgling studio, Mayflower Picutres, on a seven year deal. Ms O’Hara’s first feature was Alfred Hitchcock’s Jamaica Inn<\/em> (1939), followed immediately by a lead role in The Hunchback Of Notre Dame<\/em>, as Esmeralda, also in 1939.<\/p>\n

When her contract was sold to RKO following the outbreak of World War II, O’Hara was cast by director John Ford in How Green Was My Valley<\/em>, in 1941, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture for that year. A number of films during the 40’s followed, including The Black Swan<\/em> (1942), The Fallen Sparrow<\/em> (1943), Buffalo Bill<\/em> (1944) and 1947’s Sinbad The Sailor<\/em>, before she was cast opposite John Payne and Natalie Wood in the iconic Miracle On 34th Street<\/em>, also in 1947. Miracle<\/em> snagged a number of Oscar nominations, including Best Picture (which it would lose, but win for Best Supporting Actor, Writing, Original Story, and Screenplay), and has become a staple of American television regularity, being played each Thanksgiving on NBC.<\/p>\n

Following Miracle’s<\/em> success, Ms O’Hara would appear in films such as Bagdad<\/em> (1949), Rio Grande<\/em> – opposite John Wayne – in 1950, The Quiet Man,<\/em> and Against All Flags<\/em> with Errol Flynn, both in 1952, and 1959’s Our Man In Havana<\/em>, among many others. Working sporadically during the 60’s and 70’s, her film roles during this latter period included The Parent Trap<\/em>, for Disney, opposite Hayley Mills, in 1961, McLintock!<\/em> in 1963, and Big Jake<\/em>, in 1971.<\/p>\n

One of Ms O’Hara’s final films was 1991’s Only The Lonely<\/em>, opposite John Candy.<\/p>\n

Although never nominated for an Academy Award in any competitive capacity, Ms O’Hara was awarded an honorary Oscar in 2014 for her service to cinema.<\/p>\n

Maureen O’Hara passed away at her home in Idaho, from natural causes, on October 24th. She was 95 years old.<\/p>\n

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Maureen O’Hara (L) in Miracle On 34th Street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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