# Catherine O'Hara Appreciation **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 5, 2011, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097 "2011-12-05T04:29:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![King\_Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/74df32/32.png) [@King\_Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/1 "2011-12-05T04:29:41Z")
Hey all! Don’t you just love Catherine O’Hara? If I could spend a day with any celebrity, it would be Catherine O’Hara. She seems like a pleasant, funny, and down to Earth person. My favorites are _Home Alone_ (O’Hara + John Candy talking about leaving his kid at a funeral home= Priceless), _Beetlejuice_, and _Best in Show_. I heard at one point she was getting her own show, but that was years ago, so I guess that didn’t work out, which is a bummer. Anyone else love her? Hate her(I can’t imagine why)? What’s she up to these days? ---
**Author:** ![Snake\_Plissken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@Snake\_Plissken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snake_Plissken)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/2 "2011-12-05T04:35:11Z")
Love her. What was the flick where she was an actress that was all excited because of the oscar buzz around her role in Home for Purim? ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/3 "2011-12-05T04:38:33Z")
“Corky, we want you to LIVE!!!” ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/4 "2011-12-05T04:39:23Z")
The Quiet Man will always be the essential Katherine O’Hara for me. I just realized that’s Maureen O’Hara DOH! . ---
**Author:** ![King\_Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/74df32/32.png) [@King\_Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/5 "2011-12-05T04:43:20Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > “Corky, we want you to LIVE!!!” Classic! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/6 "2011-12-05T04:50:41Z")
> [@Snake\_Plissken](#): > > Love her. What was the flick where she was an actress that was all excited because of the oscar buzz around her role in Home for Purim? [For Your Consideration](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470765/). Love Catherine O’Hara! Been a fan since her SCTV days. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/7 "2011-12-05T04:54:03Z")
We could talk about her sister, Mary-Margaret. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/8 "2011-12-05T05:44:47Z")
Don’t forget her in _A Mighty Wind_, along with Eugene Levy as the folk duo Mitch & Mickey. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/9 "2011-12-05T06:02:38Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u4tTFEF_XE) ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/10 "2011-12-05T06:06:28Z")
Love her! Particularly in _ **Beetlejuice** _, and as the voice of Sally in _ **The Nightmare Before Christmas** _. ---
**Author:** ![Foldup\_Rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Foldup\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foldup_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/11 "2011-12-05T06:13:05Z")
The last time I remember her was the closing ceremonies of the 2010 Olympics, showing off some [Canadian pride](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDs8yUgzmYc). I love her to pieces. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/12 "2011-12-05T06:22:08Z")
Years ago, I was playing some party game, and had to come up with a celebrity whose name began with C. I picked Catherine O’Hara & no one else knew who she was. Yeah, she’s pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/13 "2011-12-05T08:23:48Z")
Nothing much to add here but to say I had a bit of crush on her when she was on SCTV back in the early 80s. ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/14 "2011-12-05T12:51:11Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > We could talk about her sister, Mary-Margaret. About 25 years ago I worked at a photo lab in downtown Toronto. We listened to a pretty eclectic bunch of artists. One day we were listening to a Mary-Margaret O’Hara CD, when Catherine walked in to drop off a roll of film. She got a real kick out of the coincidence! She was very nice in person. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/15 "2011-12-05T12:54:12Z")
There goes the neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/16 "2011-12-05T13:54:10Z")
Just about everyone from the original SCTV crew was incredibly talented; only Joe Flaherty hasn’t gone on to major success. I like O’Hara from the start, and she is great in just about every role she’s played. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/17 "2011-12-05T14:23:12Z")
A small vice-like object? ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/18 "2011-12-05T15:18:51Z")
Can you direct me to the hotel?!? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/19 "2011-12-05T16:11:09Z")
“I said to him, “Ron, you’ve gotta do something!” And he says to me, “Well, why don’t you get one of those _vagina enlargements_?”” ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097/20 "2011-12-05T16:20:44Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Love her! Particularly in _ **Beetlejuice** _, and as the voice of Sally in _ **The Nightmare Before Christmas** _. I preferred her voice as Shock. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-ohara-appreciation/605097.md?page=2)