“She’s the greatest guy I ever met”.
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Unfortunately she passed away on Saturday at the age of 95 and the cause for her death is said to be natural reason.
“Maureen was our loving mother, grandmother, greatgrandmother and friend”.
The Quiet Man: A romantic-drama, this movie was about a man who returns to his birthplace to regain his family’s farm but ends up falling in love with the landlord’s sister which was played by Maureen.
In the year 1991, Maureen O’Hara received the Heritage Award by the Ireland- American Fund. She was also presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Irish Film and Television Academy in the year 2004.
“She will be remembered as an outstanding and versatile actress, whose work, especially in film, will endure for many years to come”, Michael D Higgins said.
Irish Arts Minister Heather Humphreys added: “Maureen O’Hara left Ireland to carve a successful life in America but in the hearts and minds of every Irish person, Maureen was the quintessential Irish success story”.
“I’ve always been a tough Irish young woman”, O’Hara told the Daily Telegraph newspaper in a 2004 interview. “I gave bloody good performances”.
O’Hara was called the Queen of Technicolor because when that film process came into use, nothing seemed to show off its splendour better than her rich red hair, bright green eyes and flawless peachesand-cream complexion. Her mother was a well-known opera singer and her father owned a string of soccer teams.
Born Maureen Fitzsimons in Ireland, O’Hara arrived in Hollywood in the late 1930s and portrayed Esmerelda in Charles Laughton’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1939.
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One of her famous films, “The Quiet Man”, was directed by John Ford, who also directed O’Hara in four other movies: “How Green Was My Valley”, “Rio Grande”, “Long Gray Line” and “Wings of Eagles”. In “Miracle on 34th Street” she learned to believe in Santa Claus. From then on, her career continued with a number of movies throughout the 1970’s, announcing her retirement from acting in 1981. “She met up with my parents years afterwards, and asked them to stay with her in her home in Glengarriff”.
