Movie great Maureen O’Hara, ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame’ co-star, dead at 95

Flowers were laid at the Hollywood Walk Of Fame star honoring Maureen O’Hara, the flame-haired actress who played opposite stars from John Wayne to John Candy during her illustrious 70-year career.

O’Hara died Saturday in Boise, Idaho, at age 95, her family confirmed.

Her star is across the street form the TCL Chinese Theater, in the heart of the Hollywood tourist district.

After playing bit parts in “harem pictures” in the early 1930s, O’Hara first gained national attention in 1939, playing a gorgeous gypsy named Esmeralda opposite Charles Laughton’s Quasimodo in “The Hunchback Of Notre Dame. She was 19.

She worked for Alfred Hitchcock in 1940’s “Jamaica Inn,” and John Ford in his “The Quiet Man” in 1952.

“Miracle On 34th Street” may have been her widest-seen role, where she played the cynical working mother to Natalie Wood in that 1947 classic.

Her death in Idaho came from undisclosed causes.

—City News Service