TCM’s Summer Under the Stars Celebrates Maureen O’Hara’s 100th Birthday

So striking in appearance with her red-haired and green-eyed image, Maureen O’Hara was an Irish-born actress whose versatility allowed her to move gracefully from dramas to comedies and even period adventures.

She was a favorite of director John Ford, who cast her in five of his films, including How Green Was My Valley (1941), Rio Grande (1950) and The Quiet Man (1952). Her co-star in two Ford films was John Wayne, and their on-screen chemistry lead to several collaborations; she was also well-paired with James Stewart, with whom she appeared twice.

A collection of her movies to be shown Monday, August 17 on TCM is listed below:

• • A young woman on the British coast stumbles onto a ring of bloodthirsty scavengers.
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, Horace Hodges, Hay Petrie

• • A retired singer takes on a protegee only to be betrayed by her.
    Cast: Maureen O’Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame

• • Nazi spies pursue a Spanish Civil War veteran in search of a priceless keepsake.
    Cast: John Garfield, Maureen O’Hara, Walter Slezak

• • A brave woman tries to breed her English bull with western cattle.
    Cast: James Stewart, Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith

• • The children of the Three Musketeers swing into action against a traitor.
    Cast: Cornel Wilde, Maureen O’Hara, Robert Douglas

• • The Arabian Nights hero sets off to find the lost treasure of Alexander the Great.
    Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Maureen O’Hara, Walter Slezak

• • Biography of Frank “Spig” Wead, the pioneer aviator who turned to writing after being grounded by an accident.
    Cast: John Wayne, Dan Dailey, Maureen O’Hara

• • A deformed bell ringer rescues a gypsy girl falsely accused of witchcraft and murder.
  • Cast: Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Maureen O’Hara, Thomas Mitchell

• • A department store Santa claims to be the real thing.
    Cast: Maureen O’Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn

• • A soft-spoken school teacher tries to prove he’s not a Nazi collaborator.
    Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, George Sanders

• • An efficiency expert tries to prove his methods apply to child rearing.
    Cast: Robert Young, Maureen O’Hara, Clifton Webb

• • A Wyoming farmer fights to build a better life for his oldest son.
    Cast: Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara, James MacArthur