MAUREEN O'HARA: A WOMAN OF BEAUTY, STRENGTH, & DIGNITY
In Memory of The Queen of Technicolor
In loving memory of one of Ireland's greatest gifts to cinema, The O'Hara Collection is devoted to the films and collective works of actress, Maureen O'Hara. The goal of this blog is to showcase her wonderful spirit and shed light on her glorious career as one of the Golden Age's finest. Later dubbed The Queen of Technicolor, O'Hara not only dressed her films with her fiery red hair and brilliant green eyes, but she also had a talent for acting that even rivaled her beauty. There will never be another like her.
Maureen O'Hara was born August 17th, 1920. She passed October 24th, 2015. She was 95 years old.
Interviews and commentary sampled from the following featurettes:
-A Tribute to Maureen O'Hara with Hayley Mills, Juliet Mills, and Ally Sheedy
-The Making of The Quiet Man (hosted by Leonard Maltin)
-The Making of Rio Grande (written and hosted by Leonard Maltin)
Song: Maggie's Theme from The Parent Trap Soundtrack
Films Used In Order of Appearance:
Lisbon (1956) w/ Ray Milland
Jamaica Inn (1939) w/ Charles Laughton
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) w/ Charles Laughton
How Green Was My Valley (1941) w/ Walter Pidgeon
Against All Flags (1952) w/ Errol Flynn
The Black Swan (1942) w/ Tyrone Power
Spencer's Mountain (1963) w/ Henry Fonda
Our Man in Havana (1959) w/ Alec Guinness
Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation (1962) w/ Jimmy (James) Stewart
The Parent Trap (1961) w/ Hayley Mills
The Quiet Man (1952) w/ John Wayne
The Rare Breed (1966) w/ Juliet Mills
McLintock! (1963) w/ John Wayne
Rio Grande (1950) w/ John Wayne
The Wings of Eagles (1957) w/ John Wayne
Only the Lonely (1991) w/ Ally Sheedy & John Candy
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THE PARENT TRAP (1998) dir. Nancy Meyers
And I suppose you just expect me to go weak at the knees and fall into your arms and cry hysterically and say we'll just figure this whole thing out -- a bi-continental relationship with our daughters being raised here and there and you and I just picking up where we left off and growing old together and...
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