Name: Maureen O'Hara
Date of Birth: 17 August 1920 Siblings: Peggy (a Sisters of Charity Nun); TV/film producer Charles B. FitzSimons (now deceased), Florrie, actress (now deceased); Margot FitzSimons Edwards; and James FitzSimons, aka James Lilburn/James O'Hara/Jim O'Hara - actor (now deceased). Crack typist who typed some of her own scripts/rewrites. Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1993. Measurements: 36 1/2C-25-36 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine). Daughter: Bronwyn FitzSimons. ... Did many of her own stunts in her films. Brought to Hollywoood by actor Charles Laughton. Starred with John Wayne in 5 movies: Rio Grande (1950), The Quiet Man (1952), The Wings of Eagles (1957), McLintock! (1963) and Big Jake (1971). The first three were directed by John Ford. A favourite of director John Ford. She was the first choice to play Anna in the film version of The King and I (1956) but Richard Rodgers did not want the role played by a "pirate queen". She was having lunch with actress Lucille Ball the moment Lucy first saw Cuban musician Desi Arnaz whom she later married. She is the only credited cast member of Miracle on 34th Street (1947) who is still alive. She was born in Churchtown, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. She is portrayed by Liane Langland in Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter (1991) (TV). She and John Wayne remained friends until his death. In her home on St. Croix, she had a wing she called the John Wayne Wing because he stayed there when visiting. It was badly damaged by Hurricane Hugo in 1989, some ten years after Wayne's death. In Italy, most of her films were dubbed by Lidia Simoneschi. She was occasionally dubbed by Dhia Cristiani, most notably in Sitting Pretty (1948); by Rosetta Calavetta and once by Paola Barbara in the multi Oscar-winning How Green Was My Valley (1941). She made headlines in 1997 by claiming that Brian Keith's suicide, while suffering from lung cancer and emphysema and mourning the suicide of his daughter, was an accident. She was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of her outstanding contribution to film culture. She became an American citizen on January 25, 1946 but has retained her Irish citizenship. It was the first time in history that the United States government recognized an Irish citizen as Irish. This led to a change in process for all Irish immigrants. Sister of Charles B. Fitzsimons, Margot Fitzsimons and James O'Hara. Read more Maureen O'Hara movies (actor)
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