# Maureen O'Hara Dead at 95 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara-dead-at-95/735646 "2015-10-24T18:26:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara-dead-at-95/735646/1 "2015-10-24T18:26:04Z")
> [@](#): > > The beautiful and brash Irish actress starred in such films as ‘How Green Was My Valley,’ ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ and ‘The Quiet Man,’ the last with her favorite leading man, John Wayne. > > Maureen O’Hara, the Irish beauty whose striking red hair, crystal-green eyes and porcelain skin was so dazzling on the silver screen that she was dubbed “The Queen of Technicolor,” has died. She was 95. > > O’Hara, who played the feisty wife to onscreen husband John Wayne in five films — three of them directed by John Ford — died Saturday at her home in Boise, Idaho, Johnny Nicoletti, her longtime manager, told the Associated Press. > **[Maureen O’Hara, ‘The Queen of Technicolor,’ Dies at 95](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/maureen-o-hara-dead-technicolor-719984/)** > > The beautiful and brash Irish actress starred in such films as 'How Green Was My Valley,' 'Miracle on 34th Street' and 'The Quiet Man,' that one with her favorite leading man, John Wayne. While she acted until the year 2000, I only remember her from the 1940s-1950s movies. > **[Maureen O'Hara | Actress, Soundtrack](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000058/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1)** > > Known for: The Quiet Man, Miracle on 34th Street, The Parent Trap ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara-dead-at-95/735646/2 "2015-10-24T19:09:35Z")
“There’s be no locks and bars between us, Mary Kate Dannaher, except those in your own mercenary little heart”. Very much a case of “she was still alive!?”, but much loved, and RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara-dead-at-95/735646/3 "2015-10-24T19:13:11Z")
Another part of my childhood gone. It’s a bit depressing to note that I saw her in many of those old westerns when they were first released. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara-dead-at-95/735646/4 "2015-10-24T19:18:23Z")
Not a lot of points. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara-dead-at-95/735646/5 "2015-10-24T19:21:38Z")
Damn! RIP. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara-dead-at-95/735646/6 "2015-10-24T19:36:14Z")
O’Hara lead an incredibly successful and long life. She apparently enjoyed fairly good health right up until the end. She was given an ​Honorary Oscar in Nov 2014. Looked really good for 94. Hope I’m doing that well at that age. 😉 > **[Maureen O'Hara](https://www.zimbio.com/Maureen+O'Hara)** > > Maureen O'Hara news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Maureen O'Hara performances. According to Wikipedia: Maureen O'Hara on August 17, 1920 is an Irish film actress. RIP You’re with all the other classic actors now. What a sight that must be. James Cagney. Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, John Ford and many others together again. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara-dead-at-95/735646/7 "2015-10-24T20:19:58Z")
She had so many awesome roles in her career. Starting with Miracle on 34th Street and of course Mary Kate from the Quiet Man. I loved her as John Candy’s mom in **[Only the Lonely](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102598/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_4)** (pretty much a remake of Marty but awesome in its own right.) Funny she made 2 of the movies I most closely associate with Holidays. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara-dead-at-95/735646/8 "2015-10-24T20:21:26Z")
About 40 years ago, I saw her on stage in **Cheaper by the Dozen**. She was also superb in **Only the Lonely** in 1991 (her last theatrical film) and deserved a supporting actress nomination for it. And, of course, **Miracle on 34th Street** is one of my favorite Christmas films. A truly great career and a wonderful woman. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara-dead-at-95/735646/9 "2015-10-24T20:25:09Z")
Nice username/OP combo ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara-dead-at-95/735646/10 "2015-10-24T20:32:56Z")
The headline I saw said ‘Legendary Actress Dies’. Legendary is right, great actress taking on tough roles and pulling them off with style. 4 or her 5 films with John Wayne are classics, and she appeared in plenty of other quality movies. A bright star has dimmed, goodnight Maureen, sleep tight tonight. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara-dead-at-95/735646/11 "2015-10-24T21:09:33Z")
I’ve always wondered if O’Hara was up for the role with Bogart in _The African Queen_. That feisty role would have been so perfect for her. Hepburn and O’Hara had such similar screen personas. I suspect they often competed for the same roles. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara-dead-at-95/735646/12 "2015-10-24T22:28:20Z")
Fell madly in love with her when I first saw The Quiet Man - well as madly as a 14 year old boy can fall. Truly great actress and sexy as all hell. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara-dead-at-95/735646/13 "2015-10-25T00:15:30Z")
I loved her opposite John Wayne in _McLintock_. If you ask me, not that you did, she stole the picture.