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Title: 'Tis Herself : A Memoir by Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti ISBN: 0-7432-4693-4 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 10 March, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Tis Herself
Comment: Don't miss this opportunity to become acquainted with Maureen FitzSimons Blair (aka Maureen O'Hara) in her absolutely wonderful autobiography "Tis Herself". She is one strong, talented, feisty Irishwoman who lets us in on her charmed life. Follow Maureen on her journey--from her beginnings in Ranelagh, Ireland, her motion picture career in the Golden Age of Hollywood and beyond, her disastrous and abusive marriage, to at last finding her "gradh ma croidhe", Charlie Blair, only to encounter heartbreak once again. Maureen handles every chapter of this book like she handles her life - HEAD ON. I absolutely adore Maureen O'Hara, and this book is a treasure for her fans and those who are just discovering Herself. No one will be disappointed with this read.
Rating: 5
Summary: The person behind The Queen of Technicolor.
Comment: For over 50 years i've wondered about the person behind the character's brought to the screen,in almost 60 motion pictures, by that most underrated actress in hollywood - MAUREEN O'HARA - Her own story brillantly brougth to life in "tis Herself" has the makings of an original story for a scriptwriter to turn into a blockbuster movie.
It's a book that i couldn't put down once i had started reading it, ms o'hara deals honestly about her upbringing in a warm Catholic Irish family, her love of her family, her career ambitions, her foolish young marriages -one an alcohlic- the public scandals and movie roles that she lost.
We are given an intimate insight into some of the most inportant co-workers that she worked with - her mentor charles laughton, her tormentor - john ford, friends/costars like john wayne, jimmy stewart, tyrone power, john payne, henry fonda, rex harrison, the ford acting company and a wonderful story about marilyn monroe.
Sometimes ms o'hara suffered in her career because of her principles and moral standards, such as her fight with walt disney over her wages and star billing in "the parent trap"
the artistic differences, between her and the director of her only broadway show "Christine"
The reader is given an insight into all her co-stars and anecdotes about the making of all her movies after her first meeting with charles laughton at aged 17. the successes like hunchback of notra dam, how green was my valley,miracle on 34th st, the quiet man and the thin grey line, as well as the stinkeroos - they met in arentina, never to love,father was a fullback and a womens story.
You can feel the happiness that her love and marriage to Brig Gen charlie blair brought her, and her heartbreak following his death in an seaplane accident, under intriguing circumstances.
I found it the best book of it's genre that i have ever read, and i recommend it wholeheartedly.
Rating: 1
Summary: ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE !!!!
Comment: Not since Lena Desmond opened her mouth at the end of MGM's "Singing in the Rain" has a star totally self-debunked their carefully crafted fake and phony public personna as Maureen O'Hara has here in her pathetic memoirs. As a long-time fan of her glowing performances, I wantto scream the question at her "WHY??!!" But having a realistic view of the nature and pathology of actors and the acting profession, I am firmly in touch with the truth behind the pleasingly artificial facades. Along with the extreme narcisism and exhibitionism goes a very sad masochism and strong urge for the self-destruction of the rather hollow human shell that has supported and enabled all this make-believe. O'Hara's book very sadly details what a pathetic human being she truly was. A classic VICTIM personna and a paranoid personality worthy of academic textbook study. On the very first page, the very first sentence, she begins venting and raging her paranoia by venomously attacking her two grade school teachers. They are the "two-headed beast", the evil women who after almost 80 years O'Hara must attack and destroy. The rage the actress still feels towards these harmless women is due to the fact that they treated her bossy, arrogant and insufferably bratty childhood presence with a long-suffering tongue-in-check attitude. That's it. What a little monster Maureen must have been - a child prodigy actress so full ofherself that she could only exist as the center of the universe. This she obliquely and playfully establishes as fact throughout her entire life and throughout the entire book. Her extreme mean-spiritedness, vanity, egoism, and contempt for anyone who doesn't worship her instantly is fully illustrated on almost every page of this incredible book. In her opinion (and she'll quote John Ford on this fact, that is when she isn't demonizing him every other sentence) she is the world's greatest actress. Of course, her career and life have been completely and savagely sabotaged by the evil people around her. Did you know that's why she never was Oscar nominated? Not because she was simply a pleasant, beautifully decorative but mediocre actress, no (remember - she's the world's GREATEST ACTRESS!) - it was because, as Roddy McDougall supposedly explained to her "there were dark forces at work against her in Hollywood and they would never allow her to be recognized or rewarded for her work! O"Hara is everybody's victim here. Her first marriage to a man she only casually dated twice and didn't like was forced upon her. She was packing to go to the US and only an hour before the boat left, little Maureen was talked into coming to his house to say goodbye. According to her, when she arrives a minister and witnesses are there and she submits to a wedding ceremony, frozen in an out-of-body experience and totally helpless to do nothing other than what they instructed her to do. Hmm - if you believe that, you'll happily swallow the rest of her book - the dark conspiracies against her at every turn, the poisoning plots, the lost plum roles - not because her modest talents wouldn't qualify her, no - it was the hateful plots of jealous conspirators. Usually John Ford is the dastardly culprit. If Ford really did do just one of the destructive things O'Hara credits him with, no sane person would have hung around for any more - yet Maureen continually embraces Ford and sticks to him like glue like a second father. Yet for decades she depcts him as the evil force who utterly destroys every aspect of her life time and time again. As if she needed help! Her second husband is an abusive, perpetually drunk lofer, unemployed, short, not goodlooking, and surprise! - a closet homosexual! Of all the men the gorgeous actress could have chosen from, she choses this one - the guarantee of a failed relationship and severe victimhood for her. And she stays with him a dozen years until he totally bankrupts her! Of course, again, this is all due to the work of the evil John Ford. Everybody O'Hara dislikes in this book (and they list the length of the Manhattan telephone book!) is out to get her. And if they're men, they're gay, and disgusting so (including John Ford!). Constantly retreating from the paranoid mess of her life into the warm arms of her fantasy shamrock clovered Irishness and the comfort of her mindless stone-age religion, O'Hara experiences zero human, emotional, or intellectual growth throughout her entire life. Her rampant paranoia triumphs at every turn. She's the greatest blesssing to earth since the invention of fire and everyone is out to get her. I feel that given everything she tells us about herself, this hyper-masculine woman can find the mystery to the pathetic course of her life in the probable fact that had she been born much later in a far less repressed culture, it's obvious she would have been a lesbian. She takes great pains to tell us she isn't a lesbian quite often in her book (she was no where near that elevator when the starlet was molested!) - but this is the only possible conclusion for the facts and attitudes she presents in her book. The constant inferences that she's just one of the guys, and even that John Wayne considers her a man, not a woman, and the fact of her stupid and disastrous attraction to the men who will make her the most miserable and intimacy impossible. She's really a pathetic woman, lost, confused, not at all wise or intelligent. In fact, as she presents herself here, she is one of the dumbest and stupidest woman to have ever crossed the planet. The very epitome of the movie star actress - all fake gloss and no substance. The fact that her simple-minded "fans" are writing rave and flattering reviews of this depressingly revealing book only emphasizes how thoroughly pervasive the shallowness of our culture has become, how empty the minds of media vultures truly are. I guess it's true - birds of a feather flock together.
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