Maureen O'Hara, the Irish-born actress best remembered for portraying strong-willed, tempestuous beauties opposite all manner of adventure in escapist motion pictures of the 1940s and 1950s, and who was one of the last surviving stars from Hollywood's "Golden Age," passed away in Saturday at her Boise, Idaho home at age 95.
Miss O'Hara was nicknamed the Queen of Technicolor due to the fact that when that process first came into use, nothing seemed to show off its splendor better than her rich red hair, bright green eyes, and creamy complexion.
Many of Maureen's films, though, were produced in black -and-white, including her Hollywood debut, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939), which starred Charles Laughton as Quasimodo.
Maybe the best of Maureen's color films was the John Ford-directed 1952 classic, "The Quiet Man," in which she the proud and stubborn Mary Kate Danaher, opposite an Irish-American boxer, portrayed by John Wayne.
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