Maureen O'Hara Profile

Maureen O'Hara

	(Maureen FitzSimons)
17 August 20	is born in Ranelagh near Dublin, Ireland. Her father, Charles FitzSimons, is a clothing merchant; her mother Marguerite Rita FitzSimons, a onetime theatre actress.
	enrolls at Burke's School of Elocution
	studies drama at the Apprentice School of the Abbey Theatre
Late 37	entertainer-womanizer Harry Richman spots her at a Dublin civic celebration and recommends her to his producers
39	German producer Erich Pommer and actor Charles Laughton cast her for Jamaica Inn, the next film of their joint Mayflower Productions
12 June 39	secretly marries George Brown, a production associate with Mayflower Productions, a few hours before her departure to New York City
June 39	sails with her mother, co-star Charles Laughton, and his wife Elsa Lanchester to New York for the opening of Jamaica Inn
	Laughton insists on her for the upcoming part of Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
	producer David O. Selznick considers her for the lead in Rebecca
	is very reluctant to pose for sexy cheesecake
	depite her marital status, she's is frequently seen out with Will Price, who is her dialog coach on The Hunchback of Notre Dame
August 40	in Nevada, she obtains an annulment of her marriage to Brown, who's still in England
Early 40s	lives with her mother and younger brother in Hollywood
29 December 41	marries U.S. Marine Price in his hometown of McComb, Mississippi. After a honeymoon in New Orleans, they return to Hollywood.
43	attends the Academy Awards with her husband, who's on shore leave
30 June 44	her daughter and only child, Bronwyn Bridget, is born
50	is directed for the first time by her husband, Will Price, in Tripoli
51	plans to film Paniole in Hawaii don't materialize when backers withdraw over script rights
	her marriage dissolves into an acrimonious divorce
29 December 51	her husband moves out of their Bel Air home on the day of their tenth wedding anniversary
4 August 52	files for divorce from Price
11 August 53	her divorce from Price is granted. She's given custody of their child.
6 October 53	leaves the United States for location filming on Fire over Africa
January 54	returns to the States
July 54	Susan Hayward is seen with Maureen's wealthy Mexican feller, Enrique Parra
June 55	models some of Sybil Connolly's dresses at a party thrown by Maureen O'Sullivan for her friend, the Irish dress designer, who is visiting Hollywood
April 56	is featured in ads for the Lady Ellen Princess talent contest in cooperation with Modern Screen magazine. She will greet the winner upon arrival in Hollywood.
March 57	Confidential publishes a feature story on her describing the evening of November 9, 1953, when she and an unnamed Latin lover were said to have conducted a spicy encounter in the balcony in Grauman's Theatre in Hollywood. She sues, first for $1 million, then for $5 million in damages.
May 57	appears in a Los Angeles court for the jury hearing. Liberace and actress Dorothy Dandridge, who had also been Confidential subjects, agree to testify if necessary. She proves, via her stamped passport, that she had been on location filming outside the States at that time.
October 57	the suit is dismissed with prejudice to Confidential
57/58	may appear in and produce Born in Paradise and The Morgan Story
	considers appearing in an Italian movie playing Maria Magdalena called The Great Sinner
	purchases a Brentwood home for her parents
29 April 60	gives her Broadway debut in the musical comedy Christine
60	records a long-playing album for RCA, "Love Letters"
62	her former husband, Will Price, dies
60s	confesses to the press that Enrique Parrahad, one of Mexico's richest men, whom she started dating in the early 1950s, is the best man she has ever met. For very personal reasons, they never marry.
11 March 68	marries Charles F. Blair, Pan Am pilot and Air Force brigadier general, whom she met several years before in Ireland, in Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands. He was the first person to make a solo flight over the Arctic Ocean and the North Pole. They sell their estates and move to St.Croix in the Virgin Islands. They also maintain a Manhattan apartment on Sutton Place South and a 65-ft. yacht.
2 September 78	becomes the widow of Blair, who's killed in a plane crash at age 69 in the Virgin Islands
Late 80s	is widowed and living in Christiansted, St. Croix, in the Virgin Islands, where she owns and operates a marina
24 October 15	dies at age 95 in her sleep at her home in Boise, Idaho, from natural causes

Sources: The RKO Gals by James Robert Parish, Made in Heaven by Victoria Houseman, Whatever became of...? by Richard Lamparski, Silver Screen, Photoplay, Modern Screen
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