She was 95.
LOS ANGELES – Maureen O’Hara, the flame-haired Irish movie star who appeared in classics ranging from the grim “How Green Was My Valley” to the uplifting “Miracle on 34th Street” and bantered unforgettably with John Wayne in several films. She was 95.
O’Hara died in her sleep at her home in Boise, Idaho, said Johnny Nicoletti, her longtime manager.
“She passed peacefully surrounded by her loving family as they celebrated her life listening to music from her favorite movie, ‘The Quiet Man,'” said a statement from her family.
“As an actress, Maureen O’Hara brought unyielding strength and sudden sensitivity to every role she played. Her characters were feisty and fearless, just as she was in real life. She was also proudly Irish and spent her entire lifetime sharing her heritage and the wonderful culture of the Emerald Isle with the world,” said a family biography.
Both The Quiet Man and Miracle on 34th Street are my two favorite, must-view-once-a-year films.
Greetings:
My personal favorite is John Ford’s “Rio Grande”. Even though it’s in black and white, watching Ms (?) O’Hara routinely discombobulate John Wayne was a lesson about why men will never really rule the world.
I would would bet that I watch it at least once a year.
For two nanoseconds there I was thinking this was about another Maureen whose last name begins with a D, and was wondering if it was a metaphorical RIP or real after the Empire Strikes Back. Hey, I just surfed over here after Jawa…
OK so my brain is twisted.
This Maureen deserves a great epitaph, your clips are appreciated.
She made a lot of movies with the Duke, who seemed to like feisty leading ladies.
All Real Men like feisty Ladies.
One of the things that first attracted me to Mrs. B. was that she reminded me, in small ways, of Mrs. O’Hara [the former is half-GoddamnIrish].
“26:40 In Austria, there has been
26:44 a rapid increase in the sales of weapons to private individuals. All long guns
26:49 are currently completely sold out. Those arming
26:53 themselves are primarily women.
26:57 Austrians have begun to arm themselves with projectile weapons. If anyone wants to
27:02 buy a long gun in Austria right now, too bad for them. All of them are currently
27:06 sold out. This is reported by the Austrian outlet ‘Tiroler Tageszeitung’.
http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/10/austrians-are-buying-guns/#more-37690
I second Epador’s motion: those clips brought back some great memories of this Beautiful Lady.
Godspeed, MO.
Well placed Guins!
Keep firing!!!
Watching guins’s linked video I note that she, like many Irish, had evidence of Viking heritage.
I believe about a decade ago I read a report that DNA Testing throughout The British Isles had shown some level of Viking blood throughout it, but that more Anglo-Saxon DNA dominated in England and British DNA in Wales and Ireland [along with some traces of Spanish in the latter]. But the researchers concluded that the people of the Isles had the least mixed DNA of most of the areas of the World.
That sounds like the result of a rape culture.
It’s been going on forever!
Exactly, Cranky!
The whole of the Anglosphere was founded on RAPE CULTURE!(tm)
I’m part-German, part-English, so I’m both Raper and Rapee.
If you’re part German and part Anglish, then you’re mostly Germanic.
That’s true even if your English ancestors included those Norman expropriators of Anglo-Saxon land and destroyers of Anglo-Saxon culture.
(Of course, they had it coming to them for stealing the land from the Britons and then daring to call them foreigners in their own country!)
Everybody but the Basques and the Picts*, back to Russia from whence you came!
*only autochthonous peoples I can think of
Last I was able to find, the Picts were Celts who happened to be in what is now Scotland before the Gaelic Celts doubled back from Ireland.
But if we’re going to argue about original possession of land, we modern humans appropriated Europe from the Neanderthals, and Asia from the Denisovians.
Then I guess the Picts have to leave with the rest of us.
As for disposessing Neanderthals and Denisovians, I guess you could say the Cro-Magnons did it right
–they didn’t leave any living witnesses.
Non-survival of the non-fittest takes a toll on the non-fittest population. I guess we were more clever, or more violent. Either way works.
If the Picts ever migrated via an ocean, would they be considered ‘Water Picts’?
Given the genetic artifacts we all seem to carry, my money is on more rapey.
Survival Of The Rapiest, eh?
That works, too.
Maureen O’Hara was great in everything she was in, but those John Wayne-John Ford movies were exceptionally good.