O hara maureen biography of rory gilmore
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MAUREEN FITZSIMONS was born the second of six children to Charles and Marguerite FitzSimons on August 17, near Dublin, Ireland.
O hara maureen biography of rory gilmore
Though tomboyish as a youngster, she eventually developed an interest in acting and as a teenager auditioned for the Abbey Theatre School. After Alfred Hitchcock gave her a role in JAMAICA INN () with Charles Laughton, the English actor claimed to "discover" her.
Laughton had gone to America in and signed a movie contract with RKO Pictures where he was about to star as Quasimodo in THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (). He brought Maureen back to the states with him to play his Esmeralda in the film and changed her name to O'Hara.
HUNCHBACK became her American film debut, RKO signed her, and she never looked back.
After a few unremarkable films, in she was cast in John Ford's film adaptation of the Richard Llewellyn novel HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY about a Welsh family in a 19th century mining town struggling to hold onto their way of life in the face of