Overview
Maureen O'Hara
Known For
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest...
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
A look at one hundred years of romance in American...
The Quiet Man: The Joy of Ireland
Maureen O'Hara, Andrew McLaglen, and others recollect how The Quiet...
The Queen of the Sky: The Story of the Sikorsky VS-44A Flying Boat
Built in the United States in the early 1940s by...
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film...
Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
Documentary about how the creative energies of Darryl F. Zanuck...
Perry Como's Irish Christmas
Perry Como's last great concert special, filmed in Ireland and...
Biography
Maureen O'Hara (born Maureen FitzSimons, August 17, 1920 - died October 24, 2015) was a native Irish and naturalized American actress and singer, and a natural redhead, who became successful in Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s. She was known for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude. She often worked with director John Ford and longtime friend John Wayne. She was one of the longest-lived stars from the "Golden Age" of Hollywood.