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'''Maureen O'Hara'''
With her flaming red hair and deep green eyes, O'Hara (called at one time "The Queen of Technicolor") is considered one of the greatest beauties of the [[Golden Age of Hollywood]]. She was also one of Hollywood's earliest [[Action Girl|Action Girls]], donning [[Pirate Girl]] garb and seizing a sword (though she was never a [[Hot Chick with a Sword]]), or sporting the flimsiest of veils in Hollywood's best [[Arabian Nights Days]] style, to appear as the strong-willed heroine of quite a few [[Swashbuckler]]s.
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* ''Big Jake'', as Martha McCandles (1971) -- Her fifth and last film with [[John Wayne]]. <ref> Eight years later, O'Hara initiated the petition to have Wayne awarded a Congressional Gold Medal inscribed "[[John Wayne]] -- American", which was awarded to him on May 26, 1979 -- 17 days before his death from cancer.</ref>
* ''[[The Red Pony]]'', as Ruth Tiflin (1973) -- Opposite Henry Fonda.
* ''Only the Lonely'', as Rose Muldoon (1991) -- As John Candy's domineering mother. Her last cinematic film
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