Love Letters From Maureen O'Hara MINT Vinyl LP Japan OBI Classic Sexy Cheesecake

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Love Letters From Maureen O'Hara

Maureen O'Hara (born 17 August 1920) is an Irish film actress and singer. The famously red-headed O'Hara has been noted for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude. She often worked with director John Ford and longtime friend John Wayne. Her autobiography, 'Tis Herself, was published in 2004 and was a New York Times Bestseller. O'Hara was born as Maureen FitzSimons in Dublin, Ireland. Her mother, a former operatic contralto, was a successful women's clothier. O'Hara was raised as, and still is, a Roman Catholic. She was first educated at the John Street West Girls' School. From the age of 6–17 she trained in drama, music and dance, and at the age of 10 joined the Rathmines Theatre Company and worked in amateur theatre in the evenings, after her lessons. She enrolled in a business school and became a proficient bookkeeper and typist. Those skills proved helpful many years later when she was able to take and transcribe production notes dictated by John Ford for the screen adaptation of Maurice Walsh's short story The Quiet Man. She did well in her Abbey training and was given an opportunity for a screen test in London. The studio adorned her in a "gold lamé dress with flapping sleeves like wings" and heavy makeup with an ornate hair style. Actor Charles Laughton later saw the test and was intrigued, paying particular notice to her large and expressive eyes. Laughton subsequently asked his business partner Erich Pommer to see the film clip. Pommer agreed with Laughton and O'Hara was offered an initial seven-year contract with their new company, Mayflower Pictures. Her first major film was Jamaica Inn (1939) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Laughton was so pleased with O'Hara's performance that he cast her in the role of Esmeralda opposite him in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which was to be filmed at RKO Studios in Hollywood that same year. After the successful completion of Hunchback, World War II began, and Laughton, realizing that their studio could no longer film in London, sold O'Hara's contract to RKO. That studio cast her in low-budget films until she was rescued by director John Ford, who cast her as Angharad in How Green Was My Valley, which won the 1941 Academy Award for Best Picture. Six years later, in 1947, she made what is perhaps her best-remembered film, starring as Doris Walker and the mother of a young Natalie Wood in 20th Century Fox's Miracle on 34th Street, which has become a perennial Christmas classic. In addition to her acting skills, O'Hara had a soprano voice and described singing as her first love. The studio heads never capitalized on her musical talent, as she was already big box office in other genres of film. However, she was able to channel her love of singing through television. In the late '50s and early '60s, she was a guest on musical variety shows with Perry Como, Andy Williams, Betty Grable and Tennessee Ernie Ford. In 1960, she starred on Broadway in the musical Christine which ran for 12 performances. That year she released two successful recordings, Love Letters from Maureen O'Hara and Maureen O'Hara Sings her Favorite Irish Songs. Love Letters from Maureen O'Hara has been released on CD in Japan and is now out of print. An icon of Hollywood's Golden Age, at the height of her career, O'Hara was considered one of the world's most beautiful women. She is often remembered for her onscreen chemistry with John Wayne. They made five films together between 1948 and 1972: Rio Grande, The Quiet Man, The Wings of Eagles, McLintock! and Big Jake. A clip of O'Hara's radiant face as she waves from a gate in John Ford's Academy Award-winning How Green Was My Valley, remains one of the most classic images preserved on film and is often featured as a clip in montages and promotions. In 1939, at the age of 19, O'Hara secretly married Englishman George H. Brown, a film producer, production assistant and occasional scriptwriter whose best known work is the first of Margaret Rutherford's 1960s Miss Marple mysteries, Murder She Said. The marriage was annulled in 1941. Later that year, O'Hara married American film director William Houston Price, the dialog director in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, but the union ended in 1953, reportedly as a result of his alcohol abuse. From 1953 until 1967 O'Hara had a relationship with Enrique Parra, a Mexican politician and banker. She married her third husband, Charles F. Blair, Jr., in 1968. Blair was a pioneer of transatlantic aviation, a former Brigadier General of the U.S. Air Force, and a former Chief Pilot at Pan Am. A few years after her marriage to Blair, O'Hara for the most part retired from acting. Blair died in 1978 when an engine of a Grumman Goose he was flying from St. Croix to St. Thomas exploded. O'Hara remained retired from acting until 1991, when she starred in the film Only the Lonely, playing Rose Muldoon, the domineering mother of a Chicago cop played by John Candy. In the following years, she continued to work, starring in several made-for-TV movies, including The Christmas Box, Cab for Canada and The Last Dance, the latter her last film to date, released in 2000. Now retired, she has homes in Arizona and the Virgin Islands, but lived mainly in Glengarriff, County Cork. She now lives with her grandson, Conor Beau FitzSimons, in Idaho. (web bio)

Tracklist:
1. My Romance
2. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
3. The Nearness Of You
4. Yours Sincerely
5. Dearly Beloved
6. The More I See You
7. I Only Have Eyes For You
8. Whispering
9. My Shining Hour
10. Love Letters
11. All Through The Day
12. My Love Is Forever

Album Description: This album cover is easily in the top ten of classic cheesecake covers. The unplayed vinyl record is in glossy clean mint condition. The cover is in near mint condition with minor corner wear. This is a Japan pressing, on the record label is "Manufactured By RVC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan From Master Recordings". The removable paper OBI strip on the cover reads "Joyful Lady Vocal 1800" along with the titles in Japanese. There is also Japanese lettering along with English on the yellow RCA record labels. Original 11.5x11.5 inch lyrics insert enclosed with titles and lyrics in Japanese on one side and English on the other. The pictures in this listing are of the actual record album you will receive. Check out our other listings for a wide variety of vinyl records, CD's, cassettes & more, everything priced to sell. All reasonable 'Best Offers' considered. Combined shipping available worldwide. Only $.50 shipping for each additional record album mailed within the USA; only $3.00 shipping for each additional record album mailed outside the USA. Gatefold double albums count as two. We ship worldwide in secure, padded packaging. Please let us know if you have any questions for a prompt reply.

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