October 25, 2015
one year, the 94-year-old Maureen O’Hara ago in Los Angeles. Photo: RTR
With 95 years dies the Hollywood legend Maureen O’Hara. Your amazing energy and screen presence were indeed not in contradiction with its natural-looking beauty. When Maureen O’Hara got the necessary action space, it seemed like a natural event.
Hollywood has my talent never allowed to triumph over my face ” wrote Maureen O’Hara, 2004 in her autobiography. Since she was already 84, one of the last living legends of classic Hollywood – and sounded bitter than ever. “I would probably have more good roles played, if I had stayed in Europe.”
where O’Hara had her film career began as a star – and must work your way not only with small roles. Thanks to them had their early breakthrough the great British actor Charles Laughton, who brought her to Hollywood and personally signed her. At 19, she was at his side already a star – only as Esmeralda in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, then directed by Alfred Hitchcock in “Reef Pirates”. Really discovered but she felt only when the great John Ford their roles were, who demanded far more from her than just a glamorous appearance.
Approximately at the John Waynes page as tangible Irish Dorfschönheit in “The Quiet Man”, in German-speaking countries known as “The Winner”. “I was the only actress,” she later recalled, “which was big and strong enough for John Wayne. His presence was so powerful that it was thrilling and exciting when the audience saw him finally meet a woman who could offer him the water. “
“I was the only actress who was big and strong enough for John Wayne, “said Maureen O Hara recalls – here in” Rio Grande “(1950). Photo: Imago
And Wayne himself gave her not only right, he was referring specifically to the people behind such a role: “I had a lot of friends and prefer male company , Apart from Maureen O’Hara. “
Your amazing energy and screen presence were indeed not in contradiction with its natural-looking beauty. Only that this appeal could hardly bring soft-focus images in full effect. Not for nothing called Maureen O’Hara temporarily “The Queen of Technicolor”: With her green eyes and red hair seemed made for the expressivity of the color material. To experience about in Frank Borzage’s the colorful pirate movie “The monkfish Cartagena” (“The Spanish Main”) from 1945. ‘/ P>
If Maureen O’Hara got the necessary action space, they looked like a natural phenomenon. “The Quiet Man”, her personal favorite film, shows the exemplary. Against the backdrop of green Irish landscapes you can not help but watch spellbound while Maureen O’Hara, as she takes the happiness they deserve – even when it resulted approaching sometimes by hand
Strong female characters
age of five she recited poems in Ireland in a school play, with twelve she received her first radio Gage. Supported by her parents, an actress and singer and a clothes producer, she studied before her Hollywood career at the London College of Music. It’s quite possible that it was so really overqualified for the challenges that were presented in the film industry to them. But high quality films are yet emerged here:. Under Ford’s director “Green Was My Valley” and “Rio Grande” or Jean Renoir the Resistance drama “This is my country”
But also must you acknowledge that in addition to their skills also brought qualities that you can not learn. In Henry Kings pirate movie “The Black Swan” she plays a noblewoman who gets involved in the love of a former pirate (Tyrone Power) – and done by their intransigence again an unusually strong female figure in genre cinema of their time
With Tyrone Power in” The Black Pirate “(1942). Photo: Imago
Outside the studio she led successful lawsuit against the notorious “Confidential” magazine, which had claimed that they had O’Hara during a theatrical exhibition of four hour film “Ben Hur” discovered in the auditorium during lovemaking. In fact, she was the “material time” out of the country. The tabloid, which many colleagues had been discredited, was finally set.
In later years, O’Hara discovered a special talent for comedy. In the Disney production “The Parent Trap announce” by Erich Kastner’s “Lottie and Lisa” she plays a highly attractive mother role. And in 1991 she had a great success with the public in the dud “Mom, I and we two.”, Where she played John Candy’s resolute mother Previously, she had for some time in the Caribbean Virgin Islands passed an airline that had her abortive third husband, Charles F. Blair operated. One of her last performances she had last year when she was awarded an honorary Oscar.
Politically said Maureen O’Hara always what they moved. She defended the persecuted as a Communist colleague John Garfield and was not ashamed of her acquaintance with Ernesto “Che” Guevara. “I did not consider him commercially, but a freedom fighter”.
On Saturday (local time) Maureen O’Hara died at her home in Boise, Idaho with her family. As her longtime manager Johnny Nicoletti the Los Angeles Times stated that the family played music from their favorite movie – “The Quiet Man”
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