She played alongside John Wayne and director John Ford was for the front of the camera. Now, the movie icon died at the age of 95 years.
The US actress and Hollywood legend Maureen O’Hara is dead. She died at the age of 95 at her home in Boise in US state of Idaho, as her family announced. Had the greatest success, the Irish-born actress in the 40s and 50s by movies of the US director John Ford and on the side of the Western legend John Wayne.
Just last year had O’Hara the Oscar for lifetime achievement obtained. The actor Charles Laughton had brought her to Hollywood 1939th In the same year she played on Laughton’s request at his side the lead role of Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame . O’Hara became famous in 1941 for her role in Ford’s Academy Award-winning family saga How Green Was My Valley . Subsequent successes were The Miracle of Manhattan (1947) and give The Parent Trap (1961), an adaptation of Erich Kastner’s novel Lottie and Lisa .
The actress with green eyes and red hair was considered one of most beautiful women in Hollywood. They very often played with the then-new Technicolor films, which is why they “Queen of Technicolor” was also called. Filmed by Ford Western Rio Grande of 1950 was the first of five films in which O’Hara played alongside Wayne. Overall, she performed in more than 60 films.
In the 70s, O’Hara ended her film career and took over together with her third husband Charles Blair line of an airline. After his death, she became the first woman in US history head on a commercial airline.
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