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Maureen O'Hara
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Actor Born: August 17, 1920 in Ranelagh, near Dublin, Ireland Biography:Born in Ranelagh, Ireland, near Dublin, Maureen O'Hara was trained at the Abbey Theatre School and appeared on radio as a young girl before making her stage debut with the Abbey Players in the mid-'30s. She went to London in 1938, and made her first important screen appearance that same year in the "Charles Laughton"/"Erich Pommer"-produced drama "Jamaica Inn", directed by "Alfred Hitchcock". She was brought to Hollywood with Laughton's help and co-starred with him in the celebrated costume drama "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", which established O'Hara as a major new leading lady. Although she appeared in dramas such as "How Green Was My Valley" with "Walter Pidgeon", "The Fallen Sparrow" opposite "John Garfield", and "This Land Is Mine" with Laughton, it was in Hollywood's swashbucklers that O'Hara became most popular and familiar. Beginning with "The Black Swan" opposite "Tyrone Power" in 1942, she... Full Biography
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