Maureen O Hara Research Paper

Maureen O’Hara, born in Dublin, Ireland on August 17, 1920, was a well-known Irish movie actor. She grew up in an innovative household where her father, Charles FitzSimons, and mother, Marguerita FitzSimons had Maureen acting by the age of five years old. She then competed in local acting contests until she was fourteen, where she landed a spot at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. After only one year at the Abbey, she started acquiring minor roles in a “big production” until she worked her way up to “one or two lines.” She pursued her devotion towards acting for the next two years at the Abbey until she caught the eye of renowned “English actor,” Charles Laughton. Laughton then hailed her, and suggested Maureen go to London and get a screen test

She demonstrated her singing abilities in the Broadway musical Christine before she returned to her usual acting career. Shortly after 1961, she would star in A Parent Trap, which is considered one of her most iconic roles. In 1963, she would star in McLintock! with one of her familiar costars, John Wayne. In 1968, she wed Charles F. Blair Jr. and subsequently, Maureen slowly “tapered off” her acting career. She would reunite with John Wayne one final time in Big Jake, and thereafter she retired with her husband and moved to the St. Croix Virgin Islands. There, they operated a minor airline company together, which Charles was a president of. Unfortunately, Charles passed away in 1978, leaving the airline for Maureen. She took control of the airline as the president and became the first woman president of an airline in the United States, until 1981. Following her 20-year interval, Maureen returned to acting slowly but surely partaking in a role in the rom-com Only the Lonely as an overbearing Irish mother in 1993. This would be her last big film. In 2014, Maureen would receive an honorary Academy Award at the