Maureen O'Hara

biography: Maureen O'Hara (born Maureen FitzSimons, August 17, 1920 - died October 24, 2015) was a native Irish and naturalized American actress and singer, and a natural redhead, who became successful in Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s.  She was known for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude. She often worked with director John Ford and longtime friend John Wayne. She was one of the longest-lived stars from the "Golden Age" of Hollywood.

Richard & Judy

overview: Richard & Judy was a British chat show presented by the married couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. The show originally aired on Channel 4, from 2001 to 2008, but later moved to digital channel, Watch, in October 2008. The programme featured a number of celebrities and a book club. Its final episode aired in July 2009 due to low ratings.

character: Self

original_name: Richard & Judy

The Ed Sullivan Show

overview:
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows.

In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

original_name: The Ed Sullivan Show

Hallmark Hall of Fame

overview: Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.

character: Susanna Cibber

original_name: Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

overview: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.

original_name: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

The Bell Telephone Hour

overview: “The Bell Telephone Hour” was a musical variety show that aired on “NBC” TV from 12 January 1959 to 14 June 1968 that showcased the best in Broadway, Classical, Concert, Jazz and Popular music each week. The series had its’ own house band appropriately named the “Bell Telephone Orchestra”. The show also had its’ own theme song being the “Bell Waltz” composed by “Donald Voorhees” who was also the show's Orchestra conductor. Some of the greatest violinists of the 1960’s performed on this show that aired in the old “Black & White” format. Some of these great violinists included “Erica Mornin”, “Isaac Stern", "Michael Rabin", "Ruggiero Ricci", "Yehudi Menuhin" and "Zino Francesacatti". From time to time some of the great singers and bandleaders of the 1960’s would perform on the show as well. Some of these were “Bing Crosby”, “Gordon MacRae”, “John Gary”, “Leslie Uggams”, “Mary Martin”, “Nelson Eddy”, “Patti Page” and “Roy Rogers”. The TV show followed on the heels of its’ predecessor with the same name on “NBC” radio that aired from 29 April 1940 to 1958 on Monday nights at 8 PM. The name of the show was derived from its’ Major sponsor “Bell Telephone Laboratories”. The TV version began airing on Friday nights at 8:30 PM once a month. It later was given it’s same time slot now airing every other week alternating with another show on the other weeks such as News shows and specials. The show time slot changed quite often over the years. In September 1960 it aired at 9 PM and in September 1961 it moved to 9:30 PM. In October 1963 it moved to Tuesday nights at 10 PM, September 1965 it moved to Sunday night at 6:30 PM and in September 1967 it made its' final move back to Friday night at 10 PM.

original_name: The Bell Telephone Hour

name: The American Film Institute Salute to ...

overview: In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a yearly recipient whose talent has fundamentally advanced the film art; whose accomplishments have been acknowledged by scholars, critics, professional peers and the general public; and whose work has stood the test of time.

original_name: The American Film Institute Salute to ...

The Hollywood Greats

overview: Hollywood Greats was a BBC Television series, which began in 1977. The film critic Barry Norman wrote and narrated a series of in depth profiles on major Hollywood film personalities, in which he interviewed surviving associates. He later made a series called British Greats in 1980. A series of books, entitled The Hollywood Greats, The Movie Greats and The British Greats, which were authored by Norman were subsequently published. A series of the same name was later presented by Jonathan Ross from 1999 to 2006.

original_name: The Hollywood Greats

The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show

character: Self - Guest

original_name: The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show

DuPont Show of the Month

overview:
DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson.

During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.

original_name: DuPont Show of the Month

The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA

overview: One of awards season's premier events, the Actor Awards annually celebrates the outstanding motion picture and television performances of the year, as voted on by SAG-AFTRA's robust and diverse membership of 122,000+ performers.

original_name: The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

overview: The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour is an American network television music and comedy variety show hosted by singer Glen Campbell from January 1969 through June 1972 on CBS. He was offered the show after he hosted a 1968 summer replacement for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Campbell used "Gentle on My Mind" as the theme song of the show. The show was one of the few rural-oriented shows to survive CBS's rural purge of 1971.

original_name: The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

What's My Line?

overview: Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.

character: Self - Mystery Guest

original_name: What's My Line?

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

overview: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

original_name: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The George Gobel Show

overview: The George Gobel Show is an American television series hosted George Gobel that aired on NBC from 1954 to 1960.

original_name: The George Gobel Show

Golden Globe Awards

overview: An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

character: Self - Presenter

original_name: Golden Globe Awards

The Bell Telephone Hour

character: Self - Hostess

character: Self - Host

Tony Awards

overview: The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.

character: Self - In Memoriam (archive footage)

original_name: Tony Awards

Startime

overview: Startime, an anthology of drama, comedy and variety, was one of the first American television shows broadcast in color.

original_name: Startime

Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments

overview: Six part series looking back on some entertaining and memorable moments from Gay Byrne's 37 year career at the helm of RTÉ’s flagship chat show.

original_name: Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments

Pусский

biography: Морин О’Хара (англ. Maureen O'Hara, 17 августа 1920 — 24 октября 2015) — ирландская и американская актриса и певица, много снимавшаяся в вестернах и приключенческих фильмах Джона Форда в компании с Джоном Уэйном.

Deutsch

biography:
Maureen O’Hara wurde 1920 in Ranelagh, einem Vorort der irischen Hauptstadt Dublin, als Maureen FitzSimons in eine katholische Familie geboren. Der katholischen Kirche blieb sie bis zu ihrem Tod verbunden. Ihr Vater Charles Stewart Parnell FitzSimons betrieb ein Bekleidungsgeschäft, in dem auch O’Haras Mutter Marguerita Lilburn FitzSimons – eine frühere Altistin – mitarbeitete. Sie war das zweitälteste von sechs Kindern. Ihr Vater besaß Anteile am Fußballverein Shamrock Rovers, den O’Hara ebenfalls seit ihrer Kindheit unterstützte. In der Schule war sie insbesondere als Sportlerin erfolgreich. Sie besuchte ebenso wie der überwiegende Teil ihrer Geschwister das Abbey Theatre sowie die Ena Mary Burke School of Drama and Elocution in Dublin. Auch viele ihrer Geschwister machten später Karriere in der Filmbranche, allerdings bei weitem nicht so erfolgreich wie O’Hara. Nachdem sie zuvor bereits in Amateurgruppen gespielt hatte, gab sie im Alter von 14 Jahren ihr professionelles Debüt als Schauspielerin am Abbey Theatre. Weil ihr Vater das Schauspielgeschäft als zu unsicher ansah, musste O’Hara neben ihrer Schauspielkarriere eine Ausbildung als Buchhalterin und Stenotypistin absolvieren.

Nachdem O’Hara am Abbey Theatre erste Erfolge hatte verzeichnen können, erhielt sie mit 17 Jahren eine Einladung zu Probeaufnahmen in London. Da ihr eine solche Fahrt widerstrebte, musste man sie erst einmal dazu überreden. Das Casting verlief wenig zufriedenstellend und auch O’Hara, deren Aussehen man für die Aufnahmen stark verändert hatte, meinte: „Wenn so das Filmgeschäft läuft, will ich nichts mit ihm zu tun haben.“ Als der berühmte Schauspieler Charles Laughton die Probeaufnahmen sah, fand er dennoch Gefallen an O’Hara, insbesondere an ihren ausdrucksstarken, grünen Augen. Während O’Hara nach Irland zurückkehrte, überredete Laughton seinen Geschäftspartner Erich Pommer, ihr einen Filmvertrag über sieben Jahre zu geben. 1938 spielte O’Hara in den heute so gut wie vergessenen Filmen Kicking The Moon Around und My Irish Molly ihre ersten beiden, relativ kleinen Rollen. Ihr erster großer Film wurde Riff-Piraten (1939), in dem sie unter der Regie von Alfred Hitchcock einer Bande von Strandräubern – der Anführer der Strandpiraten wurde von Laughton gespielt – auf die Schliche kommt.

Für die im Privatleben befreundeten Schauspieler John Wayne und Maureen O’Hara war Rio Grande die erste Zusammenarbeit von vier weiteren. Wayne äußerte sich über O’Hara, dass sie die einzige Frau in seinem Leben gewesen sei, die er als echte Freundin bezeichnen könne und nannte sie seine beste Leading Lady.[3] 1952 hatten beide ihren wohl bekanntesten gemeinsamen Auftritt in John Fords Komödie Der Sieger. In dem Film, der in einem irischen Dorf spielt, verkörperte O’Hara Waynes Verlobte.

Català

biography: Maureen O'Hara (Ranelagh, Dublín, 17 d'agost de 1920 - Boise, Idaho, 24 d'octubre de 2015) va ser una actriu de cinema irlandesa coneguda per les interpretacions d'heroïna apassionada, independent i sensible. Va treballar sovint amb John Ford i amb el seu gran amic John Wayne. El 2014 va rebre un Oscar honorífic en reconeixement a la seva trajectòria.

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Español

biography: Maureen O'Hara (nacida como Maureen FitzSimons, el 17 de agosto de 1920 - fallecida el 24 de octubre de 2015) fue una actriz y cantante nativa irlandesa y naturalizada estadounidense, y pelirroja natural, que tuvo éxito en Hollywood desde la década de 1940 hasta la de 1960. Era conocida por interpretar heroínas ferozmente apasionadas con una actitud muy sensata. Trabajó a menudo con el director John Ford y su viejo amigo John Wayne. Fue una de las estrellas más longevas de la "Edad de Oro" de Hollywood.

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Português

biography: Maureen O'Hara, nascida Maureen FitzSimons (Dublin, 17 de agosto de 1920 - Boise, 24 de outubro de 2015), foi uma atriz e cantora irlandesa. Ficou conhecida por interpretar heroínas fortes e apaixonantes com notável sensibilidade. Trabalhou diversas vezes com o diretor John Ford e com John Wayne, seu amigo de longa data. Sua autobiografia, intitulada 'Tis Herself, foi publicada em 2004 e tornou-se um best-seller do New York Times.

Italiano

biography: Maureen O'Hara (nata Maureen FitzSimons, 17 agosto 1920 - morta il 24 ottobre 2015) è stata un'attrice e cantante irlandese naturalizzata e americana, nonché una rossa naturale, che ha avuto successo a Hollywood dagli anni '40 fino agli anni '60. Era nota per interpretare eroine ferocemente appassionate con un atteggiamento molto sensato. Ha spesso collaborato con il regista John Ford e il suo amico di lunga data John Wayne. Fu una delle star più longeve dell'"Età d'Oro" di Hollywood.

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Maureen FitzSimons
مورین اوهارا

title: The Quiet Man

overview: An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

character: Mary Kate Danaher

original_title: The Quiet Man

title: Only the Lonely

overview: Danny Muldoon, a Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing mother Rose. He meets and falls in love with Theresa Luna, whose father owns the local funeral parlour. Naturally, his mother objects to the relationship, and Danny and Theresa must either overcome her objections or give up the romance.

character: Rose Muldoon

original_title: Only the Lonely

title: Big Jake

overview: An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.

character: Martha McCandles

title: Rio Grande

overview: Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops of his command. Tension is added when Yorke's son (whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years), Trooper Jeff Yorke, is one of 18 recruits sent to the regiment.

title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

overview: Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.

title: Miracle on 34th Street

overview: Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.

title: Jamaica Inn

overview: In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.

title: Dance, Girl, Dance

overview: Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.

title: Our Man in Havana

overview: Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba.

title: The Fallen Sparrow

overview: Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has committed suicide, and he begins to smell a rat. During his investigation, McKittrick questions three beautiful women, one of whom has a tie to his refugee past. Pursued by Nazi operatives, McKittrick learns of the death of another friend, and begins to suspect the dark Dr. Skaas.

title: Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation

overview: Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns out to be ugly and broken down. Daughter Katey, embarrassed by her braces, refuses to go to the beach, as does TV-addicted son Danny. When the family is joined by Hobbs' two unhappily married daughters and their husbands, he must help everyone with their problems to get some peace.

title: The Black Swan

overview: When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.

title: How Green Was My Valley

overview: Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.

title: War Arrow

overview: A thrilling Cavalry-versus-Indians adventure starring Jeff Chandler as an Army official recruiting Seminole allies, against his superior's wishes, to stop a planned Kiowa attack.

title: McLintock!

overview: Aging rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife—who left him two years previously—suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in George; she wants custody of their daughter.

title: Sinbad the Sailor

overview: Daredevil sailor Sinbad embarks on a voyage across the Seven Seas to find the lost riches of Alexander the Great. His first stop is the port of Basra, where his ship is seized and scheduled for auction. In his attempt to win it back, he befriends beautiful concubine Shireen. But when her master, the nefarious Emir, calls her back to duty, Sinbad must interrupt his adventure to save the "Jewel of Persia."

title: Buffalo Bill

overview: Scout William F. Cody marries a U.S. senator's daughter, fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.

title: The Long Gray Line

overview: The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.

title: Against All Flags

overview: In the 18th century, the pirates of Madagascar, lords of the Republic of Libertatia and masters of the Indian Ocean, live in an impregnable natural fortress, killing, robbing and plundering with impunity, so the British Navy hatches a daring plan to destroy them.

title: Spencer's Mountain

overview: Clay Spencer and his wife, Olivia, live in a small town deep in the mountains. When Clay isn't busy drinking with his buddies or railing against the town minister, he's building the house he's always promised Olivia. He is overjoyed when he learns his eldest son will be the first Spencer to attend college, if he can resist the charms of a pretty local girl and rustle up the money for tuition.

title: This Land Is Mine

overview: Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.

title: The Rare Breed

overview: When her husband dies en route to America, Martha Price and her daughter Hilary are left to carry out his dream: the introduction of Hereford cattle into the American West. They enlist Sam "Bulldog" Burnett in their efforts to transport their lone bull, a Hereford named Vindicator, to a breeder in Texas, but the trail is fraught with danger and even Burnett doubts the survival potential of this "rare breed" of cattle.

title: The Wings of Eagles

overview: The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.

title: The Deadly Companions

overview: An ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son and tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.

title: The Parent Trap

overview: Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with their mother and the other with their father, switch places after camp and go to work on their plan, the first objective being to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father.

title: A Woman's Secret

overview: A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.

title: The Christmas Box

overview: A ski-shop owner reluctantly moves himself, his wife, and his daughter in to an estate as live-in help for an elderly widow. While struggling to balance his career and family life, he has recurring dreams about an angel.

title: Sitting Pretty

overview: Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.

title: To the Shores of Tripoli

overview: Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier.

title: Immortal Sergeant

overview: During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.

title: The Redhead from Wyoming

overview: A saloonkeeper sides with the sheriff for justice after she's framed for rustling.

title: Comanche Territory

overview: White settlers plan to defy the agreement between the government and the Comanche to mine for silver on Comanche lands, while scout Jim Bowie tries to keep the peace in the territory.

title: The Spanish Main

overview: Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene, governed by Don Juan Alvardo, a Spanish ruler. Alvarado has Laurent thrown in prison, but the latter escapes, and five-years later is a pirate leader. He poses as the navigator on a ship in which Contessa Francesca, daughter of a Mexican noble, is traveling on her way to marry Alvarado, whom she has never seen. Laurent's pirates capture the ship and Francesca, in order to save another ship, gives her hand-in-marriage to Laurent, who sails her to the pirate hideout. This irks his jealous pirate comrades Anne Bonney and Captain Benjamin Black. They overpower Laurent and send Francesca to Alvarado, and then Mario du Billar, a trusted right-hand man, makes a deal to deliver Laurent to Alvarado.

title: A Bill of Divorcement

overview: Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.

title: Do You Love Me

overview: Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes a friend's advice, removes her glasses, and puts on a designer gown. Naturally, she becomes gorgeous. Soon, both Barry and crooner Jimmy Hale are after her, and she finds herself in the midst of triangles and misunderstandings.

title: Father Was a Fullback

overview: Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-and-stuffy but influential alumni Roger Jessup, and also having trouble at home with his oldest daughter, Connie. The team keeps losing and Coach Cooper is about to lose his job as his efforts to win the last game of the season, against the team's Big Rival, end in disaster. But, unknown to he and his wife, Elizabeth, Connie has sold an article, called "I Was a Bubble Dancer" to a 'True-Confession" magazine, and the girl-who-couldn't-get-a-date becomes suddenly popular and, because of her, the high-school football star from another town decides to play his college-ball for Coach Cooper. Jessup is forced to keep Cooper on as the school's football coach.

title: Malaga

overview: A female former OSS agent is sent to Tangiers, Morocco, to infiltrate and destroy an international smuggling ring.

title: Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood

overview: Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive film of all time.

original_title: Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood

title: Lady Godiva of Coventry

overview: Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady.

title: The Forbidden Street

overview: In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert swoops in to help Adelaide.

title: At Sword's Point

overview: France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle is in virtually open rebellion, scheming to seize power. As a last resort, Queen Anne summons the heirs of the original Musketeers to her aid...including Claire, daughter of Athos, who when she chooses can miraculously pass as a boy, and wields as fine a sword as any. All their skills will be needed for a battle against increasing odds. One for all and all for one! Written by Rod Crawford

title: John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man

overview: Dreaming the Quiet Man’ includes interviews with aficionados of Ford like, Martin, Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovicz, Jim Sheridan, William Dowling,  and Joe McBride. There is mesmeric archive and rare photographs of the making of the film. The main location of the documentary is Ford’s ancestral homeland of Connemara, on the west coat of Ireland, where his parents were born. We meet Ford’s cousins, the Feeney’s who  tell the story of Ford’s parent’s departure from Ireland after the Great Famine and the young Ford’s return to Ireland in 1922 to visit his cousins the Thornton’s and saw their house being burned down by the infamous Black and Tans. Ford,  under the pretense of scouting locations for a movie,  gave money to the IRA.  We travel to Portland Maine where Ford grew up and went on to become a director in the first bloom of Hollywood. The boy made it good but Ireland was always on his mind.

title: Flame of Araby

overview: An Arabian-nights princess and a Bedouin chief contend over possession of a stallion, but unite to oppose the Corsair Lords.

title: Kangaroo

overview: In turn-of-the-century Australia, two criminals ingratiate themselves with a rancher in order to swindle him. However, the two partners become rivals for the affection of the rancher's beautiful daughter.

title: Bagdad

overview: An Arab sheik's daughter (Maureen O'Hara) avenges his death, blamed on Hassan (Paul Christian) and his Black Riders.

title: The Foxes of Harrow

overview: An Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New Orleans to become fabulously rich.

title: Ten Gentlemen from West Point

overview: This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.

title: The Homestretch

overview: A young couple's marriage is threatened by the husband's love of horses and the racetrack circuit.

title: The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

overview: Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an Italian concert pianist.

title: Lisbon

overview: For Capt. Robert John Evans, smuggling black-market goods is nothing out of the ordinary. But one day he's hired by Aristides Mavros for a more involved assignment -- sneaking an imprisoned American out of communist-controlled territory. The job seems challenging enough, but when he meets the prisoner's sultry wife, Sylvia, he realizes his mission comes with a startling catch: Not only must he rescue this man, he must bring him back from the dead.

title: Sentimental Journey

overview: An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband Bill will not be alone when she dies. Unfortunately, Bill is not charmed by Hitty.

title: Everything But the Truth

overview: Upset with the prevarications of the adult world, Willie launches a truth-telling campaign at school, with the blessings of his pretty teacher Joan Madison.

title: Tripoli

overview: In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag.

title: Kicking the Moon Around

overview: Kicking the Moon Around is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Bert Ambrose, Evelyn Dall and Harry Richman. In an effort to discover whether his fiancee is a golddigger a millionaire's son pretends to have lost all his money. The film marked Maureen O'Hara's screen debut as she made a cameo appearance speaking one line.

title: The Queen of the Sky: The Story of the Sikorsky VS-44A Flying Boat

overview: Built in the United States in the early 1940s by Sikorsky Aircraft, the VS-44 was a large four-engine flying boat designed primarily for the transatlantic passenger market, with a capacity of 40+ passengers. Three units were produced: Excalibur, Exeter - and Excambian, "The Queen of the Sky" to its final owners Charlie Blair and his wife, actress Maureen O'Hara. The film explores aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky and the eleven-year restoration of Excambian by volunteers at Sikorsky's Stratford plant.

original_title: The Queen of the Sky: The Story of the Sikorsky VS-44A Flying Boat

title: The Red Pony

overview: A young farmboy who can't seem to communicate with his father develops an attachment to a young red pony.

title: John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende

overview: Film traces the career of the actor who embodied classic American values like no other - in his film and television roles as well as in his private life. In a career spanning more than 50 years, he became an icon of the western. The documentary follows Wayne from his first steps in the film business, when he was still honing his image as an upright hero, through his great successes to the end of his career, when even the US Congress bowed to his lifetime achievement and awarded him the Congressional Gold Medal. His colleague Maureen O'Hara, who stood in front of the camera with him in Rio Grande (1950), said that the medal should bear the following engraving to do justice to Duke: "John Wayne - American".

title: They Met in Argentina

overview: A Texas oil millionaire, after failing to secure oil lands in Argentina, seeks out a famous racehorse in Buenos Aires and orders his representative to buy the nag at any price. The representative, Tim Kelly, has a love affair with Lolita O'Shea, the beautiful daughter of the prize horse's owner.

title: The Magnificent Matador

overview: Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the "alternativa" of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter.

title: Perry Como's Irish Christmas

overview: Perry Como's last great concert special, filmed in Ireland and screened in 1994. Como appears before an audience of 4,500 in Ireland's celebrated Point Theater, with Irish President Mary Robinson and actress Maureen O'Hara in attendance.

title: How Do I Love Thee?

overview: A professor recalls his atheistic father, his devoted mother and his father's blousy mistress.

title: My Irish Molly

overview: Binkie Stuart, a child star whose career briefly flourished before the outbreak of war in 1939, takes the titular role in this heart-warming musical charting the adventures of a little orphan girl in the difficult days of pre-war Ireland. Starring alongside Hollywood siren Maureen O Hara in an early role, Britain's answer to Shirley Temple plays a spirited young girl left in the clutches of a cruel guardian aunt.

title: Directed by John Ford

overview: A documentary about the life and films of director John Ford.

title: The Last Dance

overview: A retired school teacher is reminded of her past after she befriends with one of her former students, Todd Cope.

title: Cab to Canada

overview: Fact-based story about a Pasadena cab driver who picks up what he believes is a routine fare, an elderly woman on her way to a funeral. However, the wealthy woman is soon is insisting that the cabbie drive her on a cross-country trip that ends up entailing 3100 miles and ending in Vancouver. Initially contentious, the two eventually find a reluctant friendship growing.

title: A Cry of Angels

overview: Hallmark presents the story of how the greatest oratorio, George Frederic Handel's "The Messiah," came to be written in the English language.

title: 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

overview: This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.

title: Mrs. Miniver

overview: A British housewife faces up to the harsh realities of the Second World War.

title: Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'

overview: Documentary about how the creative energies of Darryl F. Zanuck and John Ford combined to forge an enduring masterpiece despite the challenges of wartime production.

title: The Red, White and Blue Line

overview: A promotional film for United States Savings Bonds

title: Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

overview: An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western genre forever.

original_title: Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

title: John Wayne-A Life on Film

overview: Recap of The Duke's career from its beginning in the silent era up to his final film "The Shootist".

title: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories

overview: A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema.

original_title: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories

title: The Quiet Man: The Joy of Ireland

overview: Maureen O'Hara, Andrew McLaglen, and others recollect how The Quiet Man came to be in this documentary.

title: Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

title: John Candy: I Like Me

overview: Those who knew iconic funnyman John Candy best share his story, in their own words, through never-before-seen archival footage, imagery, and interviews.

title: Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

overview: An all-star tribute to Natalie Wood by some of her friends and co-workers.

original_title: Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

title: Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast

overview: German TV documentary about John Wayne from 1977.

title: 100 Years at the Movies

overview: Commemorates the centennial of American movies with a montage of clips and music scores from the most important movies of the century.

title: Only the Lonely

title: The Quiet Man

title: Only the Lonely

title: Big Jake

title: Rio Grande

title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

title: Miracle on 34th Street

title: Jamaica Inn

title: Dance, Girl, Dance

title: Our Man in Havana

title: The Fallen Sparrow

title: Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation

title: The Black Swan

title: How Green Was My Valley

title: War Arrow

title: McLintock!

title: Sinbad the Sailor

title: Buffalo Bill

title: The Long Gray Line

title: Against All Flags

title: Spencer's Mountain

title: This Land Is Mine

title: The Rare Breed

title: The Wings of Eagles

title: The Deadly Companions

title: The Parent Trap

title: A Woman's Secret

title: The Christmas Box

title: Sitting Pretty

title: To the Shores of Tripoli

title: Immortal Sergeant

title: The Redhead from Wyoming

title: Comanche Territory

title: The Spanish Main

title: A Bill of Divorcement

title: Do You Love Me

title: Father Was a Fullback

title: Malaga

title: Lady Godiva of Coventry

title: The Forbidden Street

title: At Sword's Point

title: John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man

title: Flame of Araby

title: Kangaroo

title: Bagdad

title: The Foxes of Harrow

title: Ten Gentlemen from West Point

title: The Homestretch

title: The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

title: Lisbon

title: Sentimental Journey

title: Everything But the Truth

title: Tripoli

title: Kicking the Moon Around

title: The Red Pony

title: John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende

title: They Met in Argentina

title: The Magnificent Matador

title: Perry Como's Irish Christmas

title: How Do I Love Thee?

title: My Irish Molly

title: Directed by John Ford

title: The Last Dance

title: Cab to Canada

title: A Cry of Angels

title: 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

title: Mrs. Miniver

title: Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'

title: The Red, White and Blue Line

title: John Wayne-A Life on Film

title: The Quiet Man: The Joy of Ireland

title: Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

title: John Candy: I Like Me

title: Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast

title: 100 Years at the Movies