Maureen O`Hara

Maureen O'Hara was born in Ranelagh, Dublin in 1920, she began her acting career training in the Abbey Theatre. Charles Laughton saw him and offered seven one-year contract with Mayflower Pictures, for whom she made her major screen debut in Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn. Laughton, then cast opposite him in The Hunchback of Notre Lady Esmeralda Hollywood as heroin which was filmed in the studios of RKO in. At the beginning of the Second World War, he could no longer carry Laughton film in London, sold his contract to RKO. She has acted in low budget films until John Ford cast in How Green Was My Valley, which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1941 a major role in major films followed. Because color films began to be produced, it is haunting green eyes and flaming red hair made her one of the most recognizable in the area of obtaining his nickname The Queen of Technicolor . She became famous for his willingness to carry handguns and swords, making it the ideal partner for the screen takes John Wayne and together they star in five films including The Quiet Man. They became and remained faithful friends, the couple became so popular that it was wrongly rumored that they had secretly married. She also shared the screen with Brian Keith, Jimmy Stewart, Anthony Quinn, Tyrone Power and John Payne. She retired from the film industry in the mid-sixties, but continued to star on television. She has been married three times, the film producer George H Brown, director of pricing and a pioneer in transatlantic air travel, Charles F. Blair Jnr. She divides her time between Ireland, New York and the Virgin Islands.