1. Los Angeles Times, July 8, 1959.
2. Ibid.
3. Maureen O'Hara with John Nicoletti, ’Tis Herself: A Memoir (Dublin: Town House and Country House, 2004), 177.
4. Films in Review, May 1990.
5. Photoplay, December 1952.
6. Films in Review, May 1990.
7. Ruth Barton, Acting Irish in Hollywood (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006), 91.
8. Screenland, February 1943.
9. Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1966.
10. Silver Screen, March 1940.
1. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 7–8.
2. Nationwide, RTE 1, August 16, 2004.
3. Independent, September 26, 2004.
4. Silver Screen, June 1945.
5. Photoplay, April 1943.
6. Irish Independent, June 12, 1991.
7. Ibid.
8. Irish Tatler, November 2010.
9. Stardom, April 1944.
10. Modern Screen, February 1948.
11. Ibid.
12. Silver Screen, March 1940.
13. Ibid.
14. ’Tis Herself, 19. Her reminiscence in this regard contrasts sharply with an interview she gave to the Sunday Press on September 1, 1991. In that interview she recalled: “When I was at school in Milltown we would save pennies so we could go see Charles Laughton, Laurel and Hardy and Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. We used to go to ‘The Prinner’—the Princess Theater in Rathmines—every Saturday. It was three pence admission and you sat on a wooden bench. The other cinema was the Stella which was much swankier. The Prinner was more our style.”
15. Eoghan Rice, We Are Rovers: An Oral History of Shamrock Rovers Football Club (Gloucestershire: Nonsuch Publishing, 2005), 21.
16. Ibid., 21–22.
17. Boyd Magers and Michael G. Fitzgerald, Westerns Women: Interviews with 50 Leading Ladies of Movie and Television Westerns from the 1930s to the 1960s (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004), 171.
18. Modern Screen, February 1948.
19. James Robert Parish, The RKO Gals (London: Ian Allen, 1974), 645. O'Hara exhibited a theatrical element in many of her performances, particularly when she played Irish or Irish American parts for John Ford, as in The Quiet Man and The Long Gray Line. She met many Abbey alumni on the set of The Quiet Man and other Ford films. He had struck up an acquaintance with the Abbey players when they toured the United States in 1935, later recruiting many of them to his celluloid fold. For an in-depth treatment of this theme, see Adrian Frazier, Hollywood Irish: John Ford, Abbey Actors and the Irish Revival in Hollywood (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2011).
20. She didn't mention this in her autobiography, perhaps feeling it would give the wrong message to her fans about how she came to be in the public eye. Like many beauties, she always believed her natural endowments prevented her from being taken seriously as an actress. In 1941 she told Ben Maddox, “It's so funny, my being pushed into the beauty category. I was never ranked that way until I reached California…the neighborhood gang cheered me up with announcements that I had skin like hide and hair like straw” (Silver Screen, November 1941).
21. Silver Screen, November 1941.
22. These skills came in handy when she took dictation years later for John Ford, who made her transcribe the script of The Quiet Man on his yacht. Her proficiency with shorthand was also useful on film sets, as she told Larry King when he asked her how she prepared for roles: “You start writing notes to yourself. You remember in scene so-and-so you're going to do so-and-so. Every page of your script is full of little notes. I used to do mine in shorthand so nobody would know what I was up to” (Larry King, October 29, 2000).
23. Parish, RKO Gals, 645, says that the venue for their meeting was a “civic reception.” Although this is a fine account of O'Hara's life and career, Parish is inaccurate in some details, including calling Lennox Robinson “Lenox Roberts” (644).
24. Ibid., 645.
25. Irish Independent, June 12, 1991.
26. She would later exclaim extravagantly, “I owe my whole career to Mr. Pommer.” See Ursula Hardt, From Caligari to California (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1996), 1.
27. Silver Screen, March 1940.
28. Irish Tatler, November 2010.
29. Screenland, February 1942.
30. Nicola Depuis, Mnánah Éireann: The Women Who Shaped Ireland (Cork: Mercier Press, 2009), 219.
31. Sunday Tribune, August 15, 2010.
32. Silver Screen, March 1940. This was an attitude she expressed throughout her life, as if she were “slumming” by being in Hollywood.
33. RTE Guide, July 17, 1992.
34. Silver Screen, March 1940.
35. What's on in London, September 11, 1991.
36. Nationwide, RTE 1, August 16, 2010.
37. Sunday Press, September 1, 1991.
38. Sean Crossan and Rod Stoneman, eds., The Quiet Man and Beyond: Reflections on a Classic Film, John Ford and Ireland (Dublin: Liffey Press, 2009), 216.
39. Her brothers playfully mispronounced her new name as “Maureen O'Horror” whenever she annoyed them. When she started making desert dramas it became “Maureen Sahara.”
40. Peter Conrad, The Hitchcock Murders (London: Faber and Faber, 2000), 60.
41. John Robert Colombo, ed., Wit and Wisdom of the Moviemakers (New York: Hamlyn, 1979), 32.
42. Leonard J. Leff, Hitchcock and Selznick (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988), 245.
43. Donald Spoto, The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (London: Plexus, 1973), 184.
44. Donald Spoto, Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies (London: Hutchinson, 2008), 56.
45. Paul Condon and Jim Sangster, The Complete Hitchcock (London: Virgin, 1999), 83.
46. Spoto, Dark Side of Genius, 184–85.
47. Monthly Film Bulletin, May 31, 1939.
48. Simon Callow, Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor (London: Methuen, 1987), 130.
49. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 29.
50. Ibid.
51. Silver Screen, March 1940.
52. Daily Telegraph, January 3, 2004.
53. Classic Images, December 1992.
54. Screen, May 1951.
55. Irish Independent, August 14, 2010.
56. Sunday Independent, March 12, 2006.
57. Irish Independent, June 12, 1991.
58. Irish Times, July 4, 1939.
59. Irish Press, July 24, 1939.
1. Parade, June 2, 1991.
2. Charles Higham, Charles Laughton: An Intimate Biography (London: Coronet, 1976), 122.
3. RTE Guide, August 16, 2004.
4. Photoplay, July 1942.
5. Ronald L. Davis, The Glamour Factory: Inside Hollywood's Star System (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1993), 5.
6. Classic Images, January 1983.
7. Doug McClelland, ed., Forties Film Talk (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1992).
8. Screenland, February 1942.
9. Empire Film Guide (London: Virgin, 2006), 456.
10. Ibid.
11. Peter Underwood, Death in Hollywood (London: Piatkus, 1992).
12. Callow, Charles Laughton, 136.
13. Higham, Charles Laughton, 126.
14. Film Dope, June 1993.
15. Steve Brennan and Bernadette O'Neill, Emeralds in Tinseltown: The Irish in Hollywood (Belfast: Appletree Press, 2007), 138.
16. Los Angeles Times, May 4, 2004.
17. Parish, RKO Gals, 649.
18. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 49.
19. Ibid., 49–50. The following year O'Hara warned her friend Anna Lee to steer clear of Farrow when he directed her in Commandos Strike at Dawn. “Lock your door, Anna,” she advised. Lee took the advice, but Farrow still barged into her room one night. When she told him she wasn't interested in going to bed with him, he roared back at her, “Why you pious little puritan. You're probably no good in bed anyway, but I'm not going to waste my time tonight finding out. Just remember, if I want something badly I always get my way, no matter how long it takes” (Anna Lee with Barbara Roisman Cooper, Memoir of a Career on General Hospital and in Film [Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003], 142).
20. Paul Simpson, ed., The Rough Guide to Cult Movies (London: Haymarket, 2004), 70.
21. Judith Mayne, Directed by Dorothy Arzner (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), 2.
22. Velvet Light Trap 11 (Winter 1974).
23. Ann Lloyd, ed., Movies of the Forties (London: Orbis, 1982), 212.
24. Barton, Acting Irish in Hollywood, 94.
25. Brennan and O'Neill, Emeralds in Tinseltown, 137.
26. Photoplay, December 1948.
27. Molly Haskell, From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 147.
28. Pam Cook, ed., The Movie Book (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 470.
1. Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1966.
2. Variety, April 16, 1941.
3. Motion Picture Herald, May 24, 1941.
4. Screenland, February 1942.
5. Screenland, February 1942.
6. Premiere, July 1991.
7. Silver Screen, November 1991.
8. Leonard Mosley, Zanuck: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Last Tycoon (London: Panther, 1984), 266–67.
9. Philip Dunne, Take Two: A Life in Movies and Politics (San Francisco: McGraw-Hill, 1980), 99.
10. Allan Foster, The Movie Traveler: A Film Fan's Guide to the UK and Ireland (Edinburgh: Polygon, 2000), 249.
11. Lee, Memoir of a Career on General Hospital and in Film, 133–35.
12. McClelland, Forties Film Talk, 280–81.
13. Joseph McBride and Michael Wilmington, Searching for John Ford: A Life (London: Faber, 2003), 326.
14. Ibid., 332.
15. The Quiet Man, Collector's Edition (Artisan Home Entertainment, 2002).
16. Films in Review, April 1990.
17. Newsweek, June 28, 1999.
18. Premiere, July 1991, 64.
19. Ibid.
20. Irish Tatler, November 2010.
21. Films in Review, April 1990. The expression “in the barrel” apparently originated when a visibly hungover John Wayne turned up on the set one day, and Ford made him get into a barrel and stay there all morning. Afterward, it became a figurative way of conveying the fact that Ford could make one pay for minor impertinences.
22. McBride and Wilmington, Searching for John Ford, 327.
23. New York Times, October 29, 1941.
24. Robert Parrish, Growing up in Hollywood (London: Bodley Bead, 1976), 176.
25. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 75.
26. Motion Picture, March 1945.
27. Ibid.
28. Silver Screen, August 1947.
29. Modern Screen, November 1947.
30. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 78.
31. McClelland, Forties Film Talk, 415.
32. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 83.
33. Silver Screen, October 1942.
34. Ibid.
35. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 82.
36. Ibid., 83.
37. Brennan and O'Neill, Emeralds in Tinseltown, 139.
38. Silver Screen, October 1942.
39. Movieland, June 1943.
40. Ibid.
41. This observation is from Hector Arce in The Secret Life of Tyrone Power (New York: Bantam, 1980), 153. O'Hara sometimes considered this description an albatross, defining her career all the way from Mary Kate Danaher of The Quiet Man (1952) to the “revamped” Danaher of Only the Lonely (1991).
42. Brennan and O'Neill, Emeralds in Tinseltown, 139.
43. Films in Review, April 1990. This is probably a reference to Lana Turner—and another fairly typical example of O'Hara's artistic snobbery.
44. Brennan and O'Neill, Emeralds in Tinseltown, 136.
45. Silver Screen, October 1942.
46. Fred Lawrence Guiles, Tyrone Power: The Last Idol (London: Granada, 1980), 166.
47. Screenland, February 1943.
48. Ibid.
49. Ibid.
1. Peter Collier, The Fondas: A Hollywood Dynasty (London: HarperCollins, 1991), 60.
2. Callow, Charles Laughton, 166.
3. Stardom, April 1944.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Motion Picture, May 1945.
7. Photoplay, July 1945.
8. Ibid.
9. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 91.
10. Movieland, August 1945.
11. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 92.
12. Photoplay, June 1944.
13. Ibid.
14. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 96–98.
15. Wild Bill: Hollywood's Maverick, vol. 3 of Forbidden Hollywood (Turner Entertainment Archives, 2002).
16. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 93.
17. Silver Screen, June 1945.
18. Ibid.
19. This film was actually directed by Jean Renoir; Price was associate producer.
20. Parade, June 2, 1991. O'Hara related this story almost verbatim in nearly every interview she ever gave about The Quiet Man. In time, it came to be like a mantra for her.
21. Irish Connections, November 1, 2010.
22. Daily Telegraph, March 23, 2004. (One is tempted to inquire: wasn't there some other way to demonstrate this?)
23. Parish, RKO Gals, 658.
24. Sunday Independent, October 3, 2004.
25. Picturegoer, May 1946.
26. New York Times, March 7, 1946.
27. McClelland, Forties Film Talk, 312.
28. Ibid., 280.
29. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 104.
30. Tom McGee, Betty Grable: The Girl with the Million Dollar Legs (New York: Vestal Press, 1995), 135.
31. Jeanine Basinger, A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930–1960 (New York: Knopf, 1993), 126–27.
32. Premiere, July 1991, 65.
33. Ibid.
34. RTE Guide, July 17, 1992.
35. Daily Telegraph, March 23, 2004.
36. Aubrey Malone, ed., Talk Nation (Dublin: Currach Books, 2004), 133.
37. Films and Filming, December 1972. O'Hara expressed similar sentiments in ’Tis Herself, 106–7.
38. Irish Press, September 24, 1991.
39. Brennan and O'Neill, Emeralds in Tinseltown, 139.
40. Barton, Acting Irish in Hollywood, 97–98.
41. Herald Express, February 4, 1946.
42. Parish, RKO Gals, 660.
43. Ibid., 93.
44. Los Angeles Times, May 6, 1951.
45. Photoplay, June 1947.
46. Ibid.
47. Ibid.
48. Ibid.
49. Rudy Behlmer, ed., Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck: The Golden Years at Twentieth Century–Fox (New York: Grove Press, 1993), 147.
50. David Shipman, The Great Movie Stars: The International Years (London: Angus and Robertson, 1972), 401.
51. Rice, We Are Rovers, 22.
52. McClelland, Forties Film Talk, 312.
53. Suzanne Finstad, Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood (London: Century, 2001), 48.
54. Irish Press, November 11, 1946.
55. Silver Screen, April 1947.
56. McClelland, Forties Film Talk, 312.
57. Gavin Lambert, Natalie Wood: A Life (New York: Knopf, 2004), 45.
58. Finstad, Natasha, 54.
59. Tessa Clayton and Ian Fitzgerald, eds., The Guinness Book of Film (London: Guinness Publishing, 1998), 122.
60. John Eastman, Retakes: Behind the Scenes of 500 Classic Movies (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989), 213.
61. McClelland, Forties Film Talk, 309.
62. Screen Stars, April 1945.
63. Ibid.
64. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 120.
65. Ibid., 119.
66. Modern Screen, January 1947.
1. Jesse Lasky Jr., Whatever Happened to Hollywood? (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1975), 248.
2. Larry King, October 29, 2000.
3. Silver Screen, March 1940.
4. Motion Picture, December 1948.
5. Premiere, July 1991, 65.
6. Films of the Golden Age, Winter 1996/1997, 86.
7. Screen Parade, September 1951, 11.
8. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 123. Her phrasing is unclear here. If the comment relates to Harrison's screen career, it's untrue; he had many critical and commercial successes after The Foxes of Harrow. She probably meant that, in his own mind, Landis's suicide cast a pall over everything he did.
9. Rex Harrison, A Damned Serious Business: My Life in Comedy (London: Bantam, 1990), 85.
10. New York Times, September 25, 1947.
11. Silver Screen, January 1948.
12. David L. Smith, Sitting Pretty: The Life and Times of Clifton Webb (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011), 188.
13. Photoplay, February 1948.
14. Ivy Crane Wilson, ed., Hollywood in the 40s: The Stars' Own Stories (New York: Ungar, 1980), 21.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Patrick McGilligan, Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director (New York: itBooks, 2011), 144.
18. Bernard Eisenschitz, Nicholas Ray: An American Journey (London: Faber and Faber, 1993), 106.
19. Ibid., 107.
20. Picturegoer, May 20, 1950.
21. McClelland, Forties Film Talk, 166.
22. Finstad, Natasha, 69.
23. Ibid.
24. She was probably the only Arabian princess in the history of movies to have red hair, but this didn't affect box-office receipts. The film was such a big hit for Universal that it bought part of O'Hara's contract from Fox.
25. Magers and Fitzgerald, Westerns Women, 169.
26. Jeanine Basinger, The Star Machine (New York: Vintage, 2009), 503.
27. Ibid.
28. Basinger, Woman's View, 374.
29. Irish Times, December 6, 1952.
30. Basinger, Woman's View, 475–76.
31. Irish Tatler, November 2010.
32. Evening Standard, April 17, 1964.
33. Parish, RKO Gals, 664.
34. Otto Friedrich, City of Nets (London: Headline, 1986), 122.
35. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 86. For O'Hara, this was probably career suicide as far as any future ventures with Hughes. Nor was she ever invited to the Farrow household again, although that was probably a blessing in disguise, as she always found herself engaged in a kind of competition with Farrow's wife, Maureen O'Sullivan.
36. Gene Tierney with Mickey Herskowitz, Self-Portrait (New York: Wyden Books, 1979), 38.
37. Ibid., 40.
38. Film Dope, June 1993, 10.
39. Screen Parade, September 1952.
40. Ibid.
41. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 134–35.
42. Ibid., 145.
43. Independent, September 26, 2004.
44. Irish Examiner, August 14, 2010.
45. Parade, June 2, 1991.
46. The Making of Rio Grande (Jessiefilms, Universal Pictures, 2006).
47. Ibid.
48. Harry Carey Jr., Company of Heroes: My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1996), 119.
49. Ibid.
50. Ian Cameron and Douglas Pye, eds., The Movie Book of the Western (London: Studio Vista, 1996), 81.
51. Lee Pfeiffer, The John Wayne Scrapbook (New York: Citadel, 1989), 55.
52. Lindsay Anderson, About John Ford (London: Plexus, 1981), 130.
53. Magers and Fitzgerald, Westerns Women, 1.
54. Anderson, About John Ford, 24.
55. Premiere, July 1991.
56. Photoplay, June 1953.
1. Anderson, About John Ford, 28–29.
2. McBride and Wilmington, Searching for John Ford, 27.
3. Chata was a nickname. Her full name didn't roll trippingly off the tongue: Esperanza Diaz Ceballos Morrison. Wayne's real name was also Morrison, but they weren't related.
4. Irish Independent, February 9, 1991.
5. James McKillop, ed., Contemporary Irish Cinema: From The Quiet Man to Dancing at Lughnasa (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999), 177.
6. The Quiet Man, Collector's Edition. Maureen, of course, is also a version of Mary.
7. Irish Times, June 5, 1951.
8. Connacht Tribune, June 28, 1951.
9. Connacht Tribune, June 16, 1951.
10. Gerry McGuinness, Movies Made in Ireland: The Quiet Man (Dublin: GLI, 1996), 31.
11. Connacht Tribune, June 23, 1951.
12. Gerry McNee, In the Footsteps of The Quiet Man (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2008), 182.
13. Sunday Independent, December 6, 1992.
14. McNee, In the Footsteps of The Quiet Man, 67.
15. Irish Connections, November 1, 2010.
16. Ibid.
17. The Quiet Man, Collector's Edition.
18. Irish Connections, November 1, 2010.
19. The Quiet Man, Collector's Edition.
20. Sunday Telegraph, November 29, 1992.
21. Combustible Celluloid, October 10, 2002.
22. The Quiet Man, Collector's Edition.
23. Martin McLoone, Irish Film: The Emergence of a Contemporary Cinema (London: British Film Institute, 2000), 55.
24. Anderson, About John Ford, 131.
25. Ibid., 196.
26. Des MacHale, The Complete Guide to The Quiet Man (Belfast: Appletree, 2000), 40.
27. Magers and Fitzgerald, Westerns Women, 173.
28. McNee, In the Footsteps of The Quiet Man, 104.
29. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 167.
30. Larry King, October 29, 2000.
31. Irish Connections, November 1, 2010.
32. Barton, Acting Irish in Hollywood, 103.
33. Luke Gibbons, Ireland into Film, The Quiet Man (Cork: Cork University Press, 2002), 107.
34. Dan Ford, Pappy: The Life of John Ford (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1979), 244.
35. Kevin Rockett, Irish Film Censorship: A Cultural Journey from Silent Cinema to the Internet (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004), 13.
36. Des MacHale, Picture The Quiet Man: An Illustrated Celebration (Belfast: Appletree, 2004), 131.
37. The Barbara Walters Show, March 13, 1979.
38. McBride and Wilmington, Searching for John Ford, 515–16.
39. Sunday Independent, June 8, 1952.
40. Des MacHale, A Quiet Man Miscellany (Cork: Cork University Press, 2009), 96–97.
41. Evening Standard, April 14, 1964.
42. Irish Times, May 18, 1957.
43. The Quiet Man, Collector's Edition.
44. Wall Street Journal, September 26, 2002.
45. Anderson, About John Ford, 229.
46. MacHale, Complete Guide to The Quiet Man, 35.
47. Ibid.
48. Louisa Burns-Bisogno, Censoring Irish Nationalism (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007), 115.
49. McNee, In the Footsteps of The Quiet Man, 176.
50. McGuinness, Movies Made in Ireland: The Quiet Man, 13.
51. Eastman, Retakes, 275.
52. McLoone, Irish Film, 50.
53. MacHale, Complete Guide to The Quiet Man, 243.
54. Larry King, January 2, 2003.
55. Gibbons, Ireland into Film, 87.
56. The Quiet Man, Collector's Edition.
57. Gibbons, Ireland into Film, 86.
58. Irish Independent, August 14, 2010.
59. McBride and Wilmington, Searching for John Ford, 519.
60. Ford, Pappy, 245–46.
61. Gibbons, Ireland into Film, 78.
62. Brennan and O'Neill, Emeralds in Tinseltown, 141.
63. Irish Times, August 21, 2010.
64. Irish Independent, August 14, 2010.
65. Brandon French, On the Verge of Revolt (New York: Frederich Unger, 1978), 16.
66. Picture Show, July 19, 1953.
67. Ibid.
68. Ibid.
69. MacHale, Complete Guide to The Quiet Man, 257.
1. Geoff Tibballs, ed., The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes (London: Constable and Robinson, 2004), 528.
2. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 171–73.
3. Los Angeles Times, August 5, 1952.
4. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 174.
5. Michael Munn, Hollywood Rogues (London: Robson, 1991), 22.
6. Michael Freedland, Errol Flynn (London: Arthur Barker, 1978), 211.
7. Ibid.
8. Danny Peary, Closeups: Intimate Portraits of Movie Stars by Their Costars, Directors, Screenwriters and Friends (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978), 458.
9. Sun, June 9, 1973.
10. Peary, Closeups, 458.
11. Ibid.
12. Larry King, October 29, 2000.
13. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 176.
14. Photoplay, December 1952.
15. Errol Flynn, My Wicked, Wicked Ways (London: Mandarin, 1992), 186–87.
16. Joseph Humphreys, ed., James Dean on James Dean (London: Plexus, 1990), 115.
17. Photoplay, December 1952.
18. Screenland, June 1953.
19. Ibid.
20. Magers and Fitzgerald, Westerns Women, 173.
21. Irish Times, October 17, 1953.
22. Shipman, Great Movie Stars, 401.
23. Guiles, Tyrone Power, 274.
24. Gordon Gow, Hollywood in the Fifties (New York: A. S. Barnes, 1971), 82.
25. Parish, RKO Gals, 669.
26. Films in Review, May 1990, 274.
27. Irish Tatler, November 2010.
28. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 188.
29. Carey, Company of Heroes, 143.
30. McBride and Wilmington, Searching for John Ford, 541–42.
31. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 190–91.
32. Ibid., 192.
33. Ibid.
34. Irish Independent, February 9, 1991.
35. Ibid.
36. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 194.
37. Marlon Brando with Robert Lindsey, Songs My Mother Taught Me (London: Century, 1994), 199.
38. Ibid.
39. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 195.
40. Photoplay, January 1954.
41. Parish, RKO Gals, 670.
42. Budd Boetticher: An American Original, Special Collector's Edition (Paramount Home Entertainment, 2007).
43. Ibid.
44. Anthony Quinn with Daniel Paisner, One Man Tango (London: Headline, 1995), 217.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid.
47. Larry King, October 29, 2000.
48. Larry King, January 2, 2003.
49. Quinn, One Man Tango, 217–18.
50. Irish Independent, June 12, 1991.
51. Quinn, One Man Tango, 244–45.
52. Ibid., 245.
53. Ibid., 245–46.
54. Ibid., 246–47.
55. Ibid., 247–48.
56. Alvin H. Marrill, The Films of Anthony Quinn (Secaucus, NJ: Citadel, 1975), 150.
57. Irish Times, July 29, 1955.
58. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 199. She seems to have forgotten that she was also the villain in The Fallen Sparrow.
59. Carey, Company of Heroes, 8.
60. Pilar Wayne with Alex Thorleifson, John Wayne: My Life with the Duke (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987), 58.
61. Anderson, About John Ford, 160–61.
62. McBride and Wilmington, Searching for John Ford, 581.
63. Cameron and Pye, Movie Book of the Western, 78.
64. Peter Bogdanovich, John Ford (London: Studio Vista, 1967), 96. Ford actually wanted to call the movie The Spig Wead Story, but the studio deemed the name too weird.
65. Randy Roberts and James S. Olson, John Wayne: American (New York: Free Press, 1995), 433.
1. Esquire, November 1956.
2. Parade, March 14, 1999.
3. Davis, Glamour Factory, 325.
4. Irish Press, September 24, 1991.
5. Confidential, March 1957.
6. Sam Kashner and Jennifer MacNair, The Bad and the Beautiful: Hollywood in the Fifties (London: Little Brown, 2002), 22.
7. Confidential, March 1957.
8. Val Holley, Mike Connolly and the Manly Art of Hollywood Gossip (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003), 32.
9. Henry E. Scott, Shocking True Story (New York: Pantheon, 2010), 120.
10. John Marriott and Robin Cross, The World's Greatest Hollywood Scandals (London: Octopus Books, 1997), 89.
11. Larry King, January 2, 2003.
12. Marriott and Cross, World's Greatest Hollywood Scandals, 89.
13. Los Angeles Times, September 4, 1957.
14. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 204.
15. Parish, RKO Gals, 672.
16. Marriott and Cross, World's Greatest Hollywood Scandals, 89. This begs the question: why was a lie detector test performed if O'Hara's passport rendered it superfluous?
17. Irish Times, August 20, 1957.
18. Scott, Shocking True Story, 170.
19. Ibid., 182–83.
20. Ibid., 183.
21. Tab Hunter with Eddie Muller, Tab Hunter Confidential (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 2005), 185.
22. Irish Press, July 2, 1958.
23. Parish, RKO Gals, 672.
1. Brennan and O'Neill, Emeralds in Tinseltown, 141.
2. She didn't know what to answer because of her dual citizenship.
3. Alec Guinness, Blessings in Disguise (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985), 203.
4. Horizon, November 1959.
5. Norman Sherry, The Life of Graham Greene, vol. 3, 1955–91 (London: Jonathan Cape, 2004), 106.
6. Piers Paul Read, Alec Guinness: The Authorized Biography (London: Simon and Schuster, 2003), 325.
7. Ibid.
8. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 208–9.
9. Michael Troyan, A Rose for Mrs. Miniver: The Life of Greer Garson (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999), 282.
10. The Parent Trap (Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Disney Enterprises, 1961).
11. O'Hara's accent was also questionable, managing to be a cross between Dublin and Brooklyn. Such a hybrid was apparent in many of her performances. She was encouraged to play the “green card” even when portraying American women.
12. The Parent Trap.
13. Ibid.
14. Parish, RKO Gals, 674.
15. Premiere, July 1991.
16. McNee, In the Footsteps of The Quiet Man, 74.
17. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 221.
18. Ibid., 222.
19. Daily Telegraph, March 23, 2004.
20. Marshall Fine, Bloody Sam: The Life and Films of Sam Peckinpah (New York: Hyperion, 2005), 54.
21. Ibid., 57.
22. Kevin J. Hayes, ed., The Sam Peckinpah Interviews (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2008), 111.
23. Ibid., 55.
24. Magers and Fitzgerald, Westerns Women, 172–73.
25. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 223–24.
26. Ibid., 224.
27. Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1966.
1. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 229.
2. James Lever, Me Cheeta (London: Fourth Estate, 2009), 229–30.
3. Irish Times, September 12, 1963.
4. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 230.
5. Collier, The Fondas, 135.
6. Ibid.
7. Premiere, July 1991, 66.
8. Interview with Henry Fonda, Spencer's Mountain (Warner Bros. Entertainment, 2010).
9. Parish, RKO Gals, 674.
10. McLintock! Authentic Collector's Edition (Batjac Productions, Paramount Home Entertainment, 2007).
11. Sun, June 9, 1973.
12. Time, August 8, 1969.
13. Sun, June 9, 1973.
14. McLintock! Authentic Collector's Edition.
15. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 236.
16. Magers and Fitzgerald, Westerns Women, 169–70.
17. McLintock! Authentic Collector's Edition.
18. McBride and Wilmington, Searching for John Ford, 639n.
19. Evening Standard, April 17, 1964.
20. Ibid.
21. Los Angeles Times, March 22, 1964.
22. Letter from Geoffrey Shurlock to Jack Warner, January 21, 1964, Warner Bros. Archives, USC.
23. McNee, In the Footsteps of The Quiet Man, 183.
24. Los Angeles Examiner, May 6, 1964.
25. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 245.
26. Parade, June 2, 1991.
27. Sunday Press, September 1, 1991.
28. News Times, Television News, November 30, 1995.
29. Sunday Independent, October 3, 2004.
30. Depuis, Mnánah Éireann, 220.
31. Films and Filming, December 1972.
32. Toronto Star, April 2, 1955.
33. Herb Fagen, Duke, We're Glad We Knew You (New York: Citadel, 2009), 95.
34. Pat Stacy with Beverly Linet, Duke: A Love Story (London: Corgi, 1985), 11.
35. Photoplay, October 1973.
36. Carol Lea Mueller, ed., The Quotable John Wayne (Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade, 2007), 19.
37. Ibid., 37.
38. Photoplay, October 1973.
39. McNee, In the Footsteps of The Quiet Man, 171–72.
40. Stacy, Duke: A Love Story, 48.
41. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 281.
42. Photoplay, October 1973.
43. Ibid.
44. Fagen, Duke, We're Glad We Knew You, 104.
45. McLintock! Authentic Collector's Edition.
46. Sun, June 9, 1973.
1. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 258.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid., 259.
4. Parish, RKO Gals, 678.
5. Premiere, July 1991.
6. Evening Standard, September 6, 1991.
7. RTE Guide, July 17, 1992.
8. Toronto Star, April 2, 1995.
9. Charlotte Chandler, Not the Girl Next Door (London: Simon and Schuster, 2008), 274.
10. Premiere, July 1991.
11. Combustible Celluloid, October 10, 2002.
12. Movieland, July 17, 1972.
13. Ibid.
14. Dunne, Take Two, 103.
15. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 261.
16. The Quiet Man, Collector's Edition.
17. McBride and Wilmington, Searching for John Ford, 542.
18. Ibid.
19. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 145.
20. RTE Guide, August 16, 2004.
21. Directed by John Ford (Turner Entertainment, Warner Home Video, 2009).
22. Donald Shepherd, Robert Slatzer, and Dave Grayson, The Life and Times of John Wayne (London: Warner, 1986), 363.
23. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 282.
24. Mueller, Quotable John Wayne, 20.
25. Larry King, October 29, 2000.
26. Irish Independent, June 12, 1991.
27. Nationwide, August 16, 2004.
28. People, June 10, 1991.
29. Larry King, January 2, 2003.
30. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 270.
31. Wayne, John Wayne: My Life with the Duke, 266.
32. Saturday Evening Post, August 15, 1965.
33. Mueller, Quotable John Wayne, 35.
34. Wayne, John Wayne: My Life with the Duke, 270.
35. Shepherd, Slatzer, and Grayson, Life and Times of John Wayne, 373.
36. Stacy, Duke: A Love Story, 17.
37. Ibid., 207.
38. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 285.
39. Stacy, Duke: A Love Story, 208.
40. Ibid., 207.
41. RTE Guide, July 15, 1992.
42. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 287.
43. Stacy, Duke: A Love Story, 209.
44. Fagen, Duke, We're Glad We Knew You, 231.
45. The Quiet Man, Collector's Edition.
1. Ireland's Own, October Monthly Special, 2004.
2. Irish Independent, July 27, 1982.
3. Sunday Express, January 26, 1986.
4. Irish Independent, June 29, 1988.
5. McNee, In the Footsteps of The Quiet Man, 173.
6. Lambert, Natalie Wood, 52.
7. The Quiet Man, Collector's Edition.
8. People, June 10, 1991.
9. Ibid.
10. Los Angeles Times, May 27, 1991.
11. Los Angeles Times, December 16, 1990.
12. Los Angeles Times, May 27, 1991.
13. Evening Standard, September 6, 1991.
14. People, June 10, 1991.
15. Irish Independent, June 12, 1991.
16. Los Angeles Times, May 27, 1991.
17. Ibid.
18. Sunday Press, September 1, 1991.
19. Films in Review, July/August 1991.
20. Irish Stage and Screen, Summer 1991.
21. Premiere, July 1991.
22. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 303.
23. MacHale, A Quiet Man Miscellany, 32. He also toned down the profanity in the script, at her urging.
24. People, June 10, 1991.
25. Evening Standard, September 6, 1991.
26. Sunday Press, September 1, 1991.
27. Irish Independent, July 19, 1991.
28. St. Louis Post, May 3, 1994.
29. News Times, Television News, December 12, 1995.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Past Issues, Winter 1996.
33. Larry King, October 29, 2000.
34. Daily Telegraph, October 10, 1998.
35. McBride and Wilmington, Searching for John Ford, 542.
36. Irish Independent, August 22, 2000.
37. Ibid.
38. Los Angeles Times, October 28, 2000.
39. Larry King, October 29, 2000.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid.
42. Judy Bachrach, Tina and Harry Come to America: Tina Brown, Harry Evans and the Uses of Power (New York: Free Press, 2001), 6–7.
43. Ibid., 21.
44. Talk, February 2002.
45. The Irish in Hollywood, TV3, December 25, 2010.
46. RTE Guide, August 6, 2004. “Herself” was John Ford's nickname for her.
47. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 245.
48. Sunday Independent, June 19, 2011.
49. Larry King, January 2, 2003.
50. Irish in Hollywood.
51. Ireland's Own.
52. Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2004.
53. O'Hara, ’Tis Herself, 233–34.
54. Los Angeles Times, March 22, 2004.
55. RTE Guide, August 16, 2004.
1. Irish Times, September 15, 2009.
2. Larry King, January 2, 2003.
3. Irish Independent, January 24, 2010.
4. Ibid.
5. Irish Independent, August 14, 2010.
6. Irish Examiner, August 14, 2010.
7. Irish Independent, August 14, 2010.
8. Daily Record, August 16, 2010.
9. Nationwide, August 16, 2010.
10. Irish Central, September 27, 2010.
11. Irish Independent, November 12, 2010.
12. Ibid.
13. Exposé, TV3, November 15, 2010.
14. Ibid.
15. Dreaming The Quiet Man (Loopline, 2012).
16. Irish Mail on Sunday, November 7, 2010.
17. Irish Tatler, November 2010.
18. The Late Late Show, February 25, 2011.
19. Irish Times, August 27, 2011.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Irish Independent, August 27, 2011.
23. Sunday Independent, August 28, 2011.
24. Irish Independent, August 27, 2011.
25. Sunday Independent, August 28, 2011.
26. Sunday World, May 6, 2012.
27. Sunday Independent, July 22, 2012.
28. Sunday Independent, May 13, 2012.
29. Evening Herald, May 7, 2013.