![]() ![]() ![]() Beginning with the Academy Award-winning How Green Was My Valley, she went on to make five films with Ford and through him first met the great John Wayne, with whom she also made five films. It was in the great director John Ford that she first found someone willing to give her a chance to prove herself as an important actress. Almost immediately she clashed with the men who ran the movie business - the moguls who treated actors like chattel, the directors who viewed every actress as a potential bedmate.ĭetermined to hold her own and to remain true to herself, she fought for roles that she wanted and resisted the advances of some of Hollywood's most powerful and attractive men. ![]() Known for her remarkable beauty and her fiery screen persona, Maureen O'Hara came to Hollywood when she was a still a teenager, taken there by her mentor, the great actor Charles Laughton. ![]()
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