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This actress blasted Hollywood for s-x abuse in 1945
Maureen O’Hara was a well-known Hollywood actress admired not just for her beauty but also her fierce personality.
She arrived in Hollywood as a teenager and soon found herself clashing with the men who ran the movie business.
“I acted, punched, swashbuckled, and shot my way through an absurdly masculine profession…. As a woman, I’m proud to say that I stood toe-to-toe with the best of them,” she once said.
In 1945, O’Hara called out Hollywood producers and directors for their inappropriate behaviour towards her.
A newspaper article from that year resurfaced recently, highlighting how she refused to put up with the disgraceful conduct that was commonplace in the industry even then.
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The article states that O’Hara “charged Hollywood producers and directors with calling her a ‘cold potato without s** appeal’ because she refuses to let them make love to her.”
“I am so upset with it that I am ready to quit Hollywood,” O’Hara was quoted as saying.
“It’s got so bad I hate to come to work in the morning. I am a helpless victim of a Hollywood whispering campaign.”
She adds, “Because I don’t let the producer and director kiss me every morning or let them paw me, they have spread word around town that I am not a woman. It’s that’s Hollywood’s idea of a woman I’m ready to quit now.”
O’Hara’s powerful and prescient message still resonates with millions of actors across the planet today.
She was born Maureen Fitzsimons in Co. Dublin in 1920, one of six children, and began acting at the age of six with the encouragement of her parents.
Her father was a football player, while her mother was an actress and singer.
O’Hara came to Hollywood in 1939 to star in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and went on to have a long and illustrious career.
One of her most memorable films was How Green Was My Valley, a touching 1941 drama about a Welsh mining family, which won five Oscars including best picture.
O’Hara became John Wayne’s favourite leading lady, appearing with him in The Quiet Man and other films.
She was also little Natalie Wood’s mother in the Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street.
