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    Maureen O'Hara, 'The Queen of Technicolor,' Dies at 95

    -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 were 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.

    “She passed peacefully surrounded by her loving family as they celebrated her life listening to music from her favorite movie, The Quiet Man,” her family said in a statement.

    O'Hara moved to Idaho in 2013 to be closer to her relatives after spending four decades in Glengarriff, Ireland.

    Although she was memorable in so many great Hollywood films — including The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), How Green Was My Valley (1941), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Rio Grande (1950), The Quiet Man (1952), Our Man in Havana (1959) and The Parent Trap (1961) — the Dublin native never won an Academy Award, much less received an Oscar nomination...

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...nicolor-719984

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    Maureen O Hara revisited Cong on the 60th anniversary of the making of the film "The Quiet Man" on 26.08.11.


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    That was a great clip! She was still looking good in her 90s...thanks for sharing Clint.

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