The actress Maureen O’Hara, Irish beauty with flaming hair that appeared in classic films from the poignant “How Green Was My Valley” to the inspirational “Miracle on 34th Street” and had unforgettable conversations with John Wayne in several films, died at age 95.
His manager, Johnny Nicoletti, said that O’Hara died Saturday in his sleep at his home in Boise, Idaho.
“He died peacefully surrounded by her loving family as they celebrated her life listening to the music from your favorite movie, “The Quiet Man”, said a statement from his family.
“As an actress, she starred Maureen O’Hara strength and tenderness all the characters he played. His characters were energetic and courageous, as it was in real life. Irish was also proudly spent his whole life and sharing their heritage and the wonderful culture of the Emerald Isle with the world, “says a family biography.
O’Hara came to Hollywood to star in the 1939 film” The Hunchback of Notre Dame “and continued with a long career on the big screen.
At the height of his film career, he became the Queen of Technicolor by the affair of the cameramen with her hair vivid, his pale skin and fiery nature.
After its beginnings in Hollywood with “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” and some less important films, played the young beautiful daughter in a moving drama of 1941 a mining family in Wales, “How Green Was My Valley,” which won five Oscars, including Best Picture.
Her first husband was the director George Hanley Brown, whom I met while filming “Jamaica Inn “. When he moved to Hollywood, he stayed in England and the marriage was annulled.
In 1941, she married director Will Price and had a daughter, Bronwyn, in 1944.
“The marriage was a terrible mistake and we divorced in 1952,” he said. He remained single until her marriage to Charles Blair in 1968.
On the big screen, O’Hara always played strong and stubborn women. During an interview in 1991 he was asked if it was the same woman who stood in the movies.
“I like to get my way,” he said. “But do not think not act when I’m there. Additionally, do not believe that I always get my way.”
He is survived by a daughter in Ireland, Bronwyn Fitzsimons grandson Conor FitzSimons and two great-grandchildren.
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