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Maureen O'Hara Dies at 95

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Maureen O’Hara, a flame-haired actress whose screen career spanned seven decades and was largely defined by the sassy firecrackers she played opposite leading men ranging from John Wayne to John Candy, died Oct. 24 at her home in Boise, Idaho. She was 95.
Her family issued a statement confirming the death but did not disclose the cause.
Ms. O’Hara, a precocious theatrical talent in her native Ireland, became a film star at 19 when she played the ravishing gypsy Esmeralda to Charles Laughton’s Quasimodo in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1939). She also worked with demanding masters Alfred Hitchcock (“Jamaica Inn,” 1939) and John Ford (the Oscar-winning “How Green Was My Valley,” 1941).
Nothing if not versatile, Ms. O’Hara appeared in harem pictures, westerns, costume melodramas and light comedy. She may be best remembered as the cynical working mother to a young Natalie Wood in “Miracle on 34th Street” (1947), a perennial Christmas favorite, and as the smoldering Irish beauty pursued by Wayne in Ford’s “The Quiet Man” (1952), which airs on television every St. Patrick’s Day.
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Full story at The Washington Post

She was a classy, straight-forward, tough but kind-hearted woman. She had a confidence, an inner strength and dignity that you just don't see in films as much these days. She was a true talent.
 
I need to watch "The Quiet Man" and maybe even "Miracle on 34th Street" tonight
 
I hope I don't live to 95. About time she got off this planet. She's earned it. Rip, darling. I think I'll watch Miracle on 34th street this season.
 
^That's a sad thing to say, especially if you can live to that age and still be healthy (just like Jack LaLanne.) RIP Maureen, you made movies wonderful by your presence.
 
What a lady.

Peace to her and her loved ones.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/24/entertainment/actress-maureen-ohara-obituary/index.html

But I got to admit, this part of her Washington Post obit made me chuckle.

Maureen O’Hara, a flame-haired actress whose screen career spanned seven decades and was largely defined by the sassy firecrackers ...died Oct. 24 at her home in Boise, Idaho. She was 95.
Her family issued a statement confirming the death but did not disclose the cause.
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Really?

Do we really need the family to tell us the cause behind the death of a NINETYFIVE year old woman?
 
By coincidence, I was watching her in "Sinbad the Sailor" just a few days ago.

Not sure I really bought her as an Arabian princess (!), but she's fun playing off Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
 
One of my all-time favorite actresses; even though she retired long ago it was nice to think she was still around somewhere, when so many of that era have passed on. I can't really express how much I've enjoyed her work.

Here is one of my favorite of so many scenes between O'Hara and John Wayne. During the song, you can read every emotion in her face without a word spoken. An incredible combination of music and acting. TOS fans will be familiar with the song, and some may recognize the vocalist as Ken Curtis, Festus from Gunsmoke.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yVSxI0_MbU?start=79[/yt]

RIP, Maureen O'Hara.
 
In a way it is a good thing that she was interviewed about "Miracle On 34th Street" only a few years ago and that commentary is available on the Blu-Ray and DVD. At least we'll have preserved for years to come her own thoughts on the film and not some historian's "collected" version that was acquired from listening and reading different interviews she did over the years.

But I think the one film she'll always be associated with is Miracle On 34th Street, especially since it gets replayed quite a bit every year, and it's even made it into other Fox films, such as Home Alone.
 
TCM has scheduled its Maureen O'Hara tribute for Friday Nov. 20. Eastern times:

6:00 AM Jamaica Inn (1939)
7:45 AM The Deadly Companions (1961)
9:30 AM Spencer's Mountain (1963)
11:30 AM McLintock! (1963)
1:45 PM The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965)
3:45 PM Big Jake (1971)
5:45 PM The Wings of Eagles (1957)
8:00 PM The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
10:15 PM The Quiet Man (1952)
12:30 AM At Sword's Point (1951)
2:00 AM Sinbad the Sailor (1947)
4:00 PM The Spanish Main (1945)
 
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