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Well Mr. Pommer and I sent for you and you came and blew into the office like a hurricane. The way Catherine O'Hara speaks in her role as the family matriarch is so singular, it's impossible not to linger on her every word. "[140], The Quiet Man was both a critical and commercial success, grossing $3.8million domestically in its first year of release against a budget of $1.75million. If a teacher had slapped me I would have bitten her. This warm, wonderful, talented woman performed songs from "The Quiet Man" at the request of Maureen O'Hara at "A Tribute to Maureen O'Hara" on 25 May 2013. Simon Carswell in Arlington. [277] O'Hara also became the first woman to win the John F. Kennedy Memorial Award for "Outstanding American of Irish Descent for Service to God and Country". John Wayne is the United States of America" and personally selected the portrait of him to go on it. [227] In her earlier career she refused to appear to smoke and drink on screen, and it was only later that she relented to avoid being out of a job. Maureen O'Hara was a Hollywood actress who was paired with Hollywood's leading men in such swashbucklers as Sinbad the Sailor and The Black Swan. Maureen O'Hara | Biography, Movies, & Facts | Britannica The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Maureen O'Hara looks very handsome in Technicolor but her expressions are limitedmostly to disgust at shooting smugglers or pulling knives from dying men". [139] Though Ford generally treated her very well, on one occasion when filming a cart scene in which the wind in her eyes made it difficult to see, Ford yelled "Open your damn eyes" and O'Hara flipped, responding with "What would a bald-headed son of a bitch like you know about hair lashing across his eyeballs? O'Hara noted that "Jeff was a real sweetheart, but acting with him was like acting with a broomstick". [160] In The Magnificent Matador, O'Hara played a spoiled, wealthy American who falls in love with a brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador (Anthony Quinn) in Mexico. [24] Biographer Aubrey Malone stated of it: "One could argue that O'Hara never looked as enticing as she does in Little Miss Molly, even if she isn't 'Maureen O'Hara' quite yet. [72] She next portrayed a European school teacher opposite George Sanders and Charles Laughton, in their last film together, in Jean Renoir's This Land Is Mine for RKO.