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xwpseaweird · 1 month

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|| THE QUIET MAN ||

John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara Mesmerize in this Classic Romance

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The above tribute is dedicated to June Beck, founder of Maureen O'Hara Magazine.

Synopsis: "A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union." -IMDB

The Quiet Man (1952) is a film directed by John Ford (How Green Was My Valley) and stars John Wayne (True Grit, The Searchers) and Maureen O'Hara (The Parent Trap, Miracle on 34th Street). This is the second film Wayne and O'Hara starred in together, the first being Rio Grande, which Ford also directed. Wayne and O'Hara had amazing chemistry on screen and made five films together in total, the rest being Wings of Eagles, McLintock!, and Big Jake. The Quiet Man is seen as the more successful of their films, having achieved the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and Best Directing in 1953.

John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara remained great friends until his death in 1979.

The song in the tribute is Into the Mystic by Van Morrison.

Notes: As with most old films, there are some things that may not have aged well, but were considered fine for the time period. One thing is the jokes about beating women who misbehaved with sticks. While no one was actually beat with a stick in the film, it was joked about. O'Hara's character, Mary Kate, was a redhead with a noted fearful temper. It was implied that she needed a good stick whipping to keep her in line, but Wayne's character never did. It was a sign that he had no issues with her being full of fire. The fact that these jokes exist doesn't diminish the fact that this movie is wonderful. I will always highly recommend it.

Fun Fact: At one point during filming, O'Hara hit John Wayne for real after their first big kiss. The punch was scripted, but she didn't pull it. Wayne saw it coming and blocked her punch with his hand. The impact of her fist with his palm caused her wrist to fracture. She literally broke her wrist and kept filming. O'Hara prided herself on being able to keep up with the men. She never let anything they threw at her bring her down. This is one reason why John Ford repeatedly used her in his films and why John Wayne loved working with her.

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theoharacollection · 10 days

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MAUREEN O'HARA: A WOMAN OF BEAUTY, STRENGTH, & DIGNITY

In Memory of The Queen of Technicolor

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In loving memory of one of Ireland's greatest gifts to cinema, The O'Hara Collection is devoted to the films and collective works of actress, Maureen O'Hara. The goal of this blog is to showcase her wonderful spirit and shed light on her glorious career as one of the Golden Age's finest. Later dubbed The Queen of Technicolor, O'Hara not only dressed her films with her fiery red hair and brilliant green eyes, but she also had a talent for acting that even rivaled her beauty. There will never be another like her.

Maureen O'Hara was born August 17th, 1920. She passed October 24th, 2015. She was 95 years old.

Interviews and commentary sampled from the following featurettes: -A Tribute to Maureen O'Hara with Hayley Mills, Juliet Mills, and Ally Sheedy -The Making of The Quiet Man (hosted by Leonard Maltin) -The Making of Rio Grande (written and hosted by Leonard Maltin)

Song: Maggie's Theme from The Parent Trap Soundtrack

Films Used In Order of Appearance: Lisbon (1956) w/ Ray Milland Jamaica Inn (1939) w/ Charles Laughton The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) w/ Charles Laughton How Green Was My Valley (1941) w/ Walter Pidgeon Against All Flags (1952) w/ Errol Flynn The Black Swan (1942) w/ Tyrone Power Spencer's Mountain (1963) w/ Henry Fonda Our Man in Havana (1959) w/ Alec Guinness Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation (1962) w/ Jimmy (James) Stewart The Parent Trap (1961) w/ Hayley Mills The Quiet Man (1952) w/ John Wayne The Rare Breed (1966) w/ Juliet Mills McLintock! (1963) w/ John Wayne Rio Grande (1950) w/ John Wayne The Wings of Eagles (1957) w/ John Wayne Only the Lonely (1991) w/ Ally Sheedy & John Candy

#old hollywood #vintage #maureen o'hara #ireland #john wayne #errol flynn #the parent trap #the quiet man #ally sheedy #hayley mills #juliet mills #harry carey jr.#brian keith #jimmy stewart #Youtube #video #vid recs

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auldcine · 2 years

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MAUREEN O'HARA as Mary Kate Danaher in THE QUIET MAN (1952)

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citizenscreen · 9 months

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John Ford’s THE QUIET MAN opened across the UK #OnThisDay in 1952.

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cinematicjourney · 1 year

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The Quiet Man (1952) | dir. John Ford

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stairnaheireann · 2 months

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#OTD in 1896 – Birth of stage and film actor, Arthur Shields (younger brother of Barry Fitzgerald), in Portobello, Co Dublin.

While Sean Connolly claimed the unfortunate title of being the first rebel fatality, others were luckier and escaped from Easter Week, 1916 with their lives. For Arthur Shields, his role in the Rising was to become merely an interesting titbit in what was a fascinating career as an actor at home and in the US. Arthur was born into a poor family in Portobello, Dublin in 1896. As one of eight…

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#1916 Easter Rising #Arthur Shields #Barry Fitzgerald #Co. Dublin #Dean&039;s Grange Cemetery #Going My Way #John Wayne #Portobello #Protestant #Stage and Film Actor #storiesfrom1916.com #The Quiet Man

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cinematicfinatic · 1 year

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#maureen o'hara #john wayne #the quiet man #classic movies #classic hollywood

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dgeometric · 6 months

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The Quiet Man (2018) BEST SCENE

#i had to scrub through an entire lets play to find this #the quiet man #videogames

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hollywoodlady · 1 year

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John Wayne for 'The Quiet Man', 1952.

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dweemeister · 2 months

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John Ford wins the Academy Award for Best Director for The Quiet Man (1952) – presented by Olivia de Havilland; accepted by John Wayne; introduced by Bob Hope

Director John Ford, long considered one of the central director of Hollywood's Golden Age, was best known for his Westerns. In films such as Stagecoach (1939), My Darling Clementine (1946), and The Searchers (1956), Ford engrained much of the narrative and visual language that audiences worldwide have come to expect from an American Western film.

But every now and then Ford branched off into something entirely different. 1952's The Quiet Man is a romantic comedy in which an Irish-born American boxer (John Wayne) returns home to Ireland to purchase his family farm. There, he meets and falls for a fiery village woman (Maureen O'Hara), and romance kindles amid emerald hillsides and small town hijinks.

The Quiet Man, one of Ford's best works, was nominated for seven Oscars at the 25th Academy Awards, including: Best Sound; Art Direction-Set Direction, Color; Writing, Screenplay; Supporting Actor (Victor McLaglen); Best Director (Ford) and Best Picture. The film won a duo of Oscars: Cinematography (Color; at a time there was a separate category for black-and-white) for Winton C. Hoch and Archie Stout and Best Director for an absent John Ford.

#The Quiet Man #John Ford #John Wayne #Olivia de Havilland #Bob Hope #25th Academy Awards #Oscars #Best Director #31 Days of Oscar #Youtube

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longeyelashedtragedy · 4 months

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frank uses the captain armband as a tourniquet, daddy a injects a barely visible needle, it's so fucking good

aiiyaiyiyi what's in the needle?

#anonymous #answered #ANON PLS TELL US MORE #Daddy A #The Quiet Man

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chernobog13 · 1 month

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ST. PADDY'S DAY MOVIE LIST

What I'll be tossin' in the ole BluRay player to watch tonight and tomorrow (I've got the day off, to make up for today), in no particular order: