Maureen O\' Hara

Maureen O' Hara (born Maureen Fitzsimons ) is an Irish actress born with Dublin the August 17th 1920. She begins with the Tavern from Jamaica and Quasimodo where she divides the poster with Charles Laughton. Taken under contract by the RKO (which will yield it soon to Fox), it begins a career in Hollywood; it is 19 years old. To the United States, it turns much, in particular of the westerns of John Ford in company of John Wayne ( the quiet Man or Rio Grande ).

Biography

Promising beginnings

Maureen O' Hara is the girl of an Irish actress, very early, it takes the advice of its mother and takes dance and speech production lessons. In the ten years age, Maureen O' Hara takes part in a radiophonic show and decides to make theater. As of the 14 years age, it integrates the prestigious Abbey Theater in Ireland where it practices the traditional theater and the opera. She is noticed during an interpretation of Shakespeare by Harry Richman, celebrates actor of American variety. She is then committed on a musical film Kicking the Moon Around (1938) of Walter Forde for a small role. The famous actor Charles Laughton the remark also in a screen test and is immediately allured by the charisma of the Irishwoman, his green eyes and his blazing russet-red hair. He presents it to his associate Erich Pommer the producer and make him sign a seven year old contract in their production company Mayflower Pictures . It is immediately directed to with dimensions of Charles Laughton by Alfred Hitchcock, in his last British realization, the Tavern of Jamaica . Film of maritime adventures, it gained a large success. Filled with enthusiasm by his performance, Charles Laughton takes on board the young actress on the Queen Mary and installs for the America, direction Hollywood to make a new film for RKO. Laughton is indicated to incarnate the Uneven one of Notre-Dame and Maureen was proposed by the actor for the role of Esméralda in the super production Quasimodo according to the novel Notre-Dame de Paris of Victor Hugo. Remarkable adaptation directed by William Dieterle, the RKO made build immense studios and Van Nest Polglase, the decorator, will reconstitute the frontage of Notre-Dame and a whole medieval district, the film is a new success. Production company RKO repurchases then the contract of Maureen O' Hara with Charles Laughton. Benefitting from the talent of singer of the actress, the RKO employs it in various musical like Dance, girl, dance or They Met in Argentina .

The queen of Technicolor

The russet-red one with the green eyes is very quickly located by a large realizer of Irish origin, John Ford. It engages it on its film Which it was green my valley , upsetting homage on a community of minors Welsh. It reveals true impassioned nature and volunteer of the actress. Maureen O' Hara will find its best roles in films of John Ford and will find the realizer for four other films. Maureen O' Hara is from now on star with the 20th Century Fox which repurchased its contract with the RKO.

At the sides of Arlene Dahl and Rhonda Fleming, it is one of three more famous russet-red of Hollywood.

Its temperament and its athletic pace are worth to him to be specialized in many films of exotic adventures and films of cape and sword. Magnificiently development by the color it will be called “ the queen of the Technicolor ” and a journalist will write: “ photographed in Technicolor, Maureen O' Hara is more dazzling that a sunset ”. It will be remarkable in traditional film of adventure of pirate the black Swan model of the genre with Tyrone Power, it will play the exotic princesses in Sinbad the sailor , Baghdad or Flame off Araby , it will be sword with the hand as a girl of Athos in the Wire of Mouquetaires or in the middle of piracy with films like black Pavillon and With the boarding .

Selective catalog of films

External bonds

  • Maureen O' Hara on Internet Movie Database
  • Maureen O' Hara on Allociné
  • Classic Movies (1939 - 1969): Maureen O'Hara

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