# Maureen O'Hara! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 28, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara/221339 "2003-12-28T00:30:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara/221339/1 "2003-12-28T00:30:00Z")
God, wasn’t she just a “living doll”? I love her in all the _John Wayne_ flicks, but didn’t she also star in some _James Stewart_ movies? Did the two of them (Wayne/Stewart) ever have a disagreement over which movie she would be in (if the film happened to be made at the same time?) Q ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara/221339/2 "2003-12-28T00:57:30Z")
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME with Charles Laughton she was great wasn’t she quasimodem? I remember her almost as well as Laughton. Thought she stole Quiet man, and How green was my valley. You know she was CEO of her own airline right? Amazing woman. BTW She is still alive, right? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara/221339/3 "2003-12-28T01:03:14Z")
They starred together in [Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0056255/) and [The Rare Breed](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0060884/) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara/221339/4 "2003-12-28T06:43:17Z")
She’s still gorgeous. I was watching a bio of John Candy on A&E in which she was interviewed. The reason she returned to movies after a 20 year absence (when she certainly didn’t need the money or the fame) was 100% because she liked him. She had turned down the role and the studio suggested countless other actresses (including Bea Arthur & Marion Ross), but he was so intent on her that he chartered a jet to the Virgin Islands to meet with her. She fell in love with him (in the non-romantic sense) and agreed to do the roll. Trivia: English is not her first language. Her father (a football team owner) was a super patriotic Irishman who insisted on Gaelic as the household language. She continued the tradition by speaking Gaelic at home with her daughter Bronwyn (born of her second marriage, a hellish union in which she was frequently abused and which ended in a nasty custody battle; she actually said that the day that husband died was the happiest of her life, though because of her Catholic upbringing she would not remarry while he lived [her first husband was a gay film producer and the marriage was annulled without being consummated]). Her daughter and some of her grandchildren go by the surname Fitzsimons, which was her maiden name. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara/221339/5 "2003-12-28T07:03:19Z")
**John Candy**! I _knew_ there was a reason I liked him! (Just kidding! I loved him before I even knew of the Maureen O’Hara reference!) Quasi (who is still waiting on the _Last Polka_ on VHS or DVD! ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara/221339/6 "2003-12-28T15:21:44Z")
I’ve always liked her too. When I was a kid and watched The Parent Trap, I wanted her to be MY mom. BTW, she is the only reason I ever watched The Quiet Man. She’s great in it too. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara/221339/7 "2003-12-28T15:37:55Z")
I had such a case of the hots for her when I was a kid. Old Tarzan movies. I was crushed at age seven, when I learned that these movies were not current… and how long ago they’d been made. _sigh_… ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara/221339/8 "2003-12-28T17:20:05Z")
I like the old Tarzan movies, too, but I think you might be thinking of Maureen O’Sullivan, another lovely actress with an elegant manner. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara/221339/9 "2003-12-28T17:27:29Z")
. . . She is not only still alive, but her memoiors are coming out early next year. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara/221339/10 "2003-12-28T17:39:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baldwin \* > \*\*I like the old Tarzan movies, too, but I think you might be thinking of Maureen O’Sullivan, another lovely actress with an elegant manner. \*\* Mmmm…Maureen O’Sullivan… ---
**Author:** ![aaslatten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@aaslatten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaslatten)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maureen-ohara/221339/11 "2003-12-28T17:57:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alias \* > \*\*I’ve always liked her too. When I was a kid and watched The Parent Trap, I wanted her to be MY mom. \*\* She was pretty hot in that one too, doing the older divorcee thing.