Hi Janette
I'd also like to welcome you to this site and hope you will stay for a long time.
The book Tis Herself was quite readable but I believe that more was left out than was put in. I got the feeling that it was quite a lightweight book considering what it could have said, perhaps that the reason.
Regards
Arthur
Hi.
I also read the book recently and thought it was a missed opportunity. I think that I agree with stumpy that it could have been longer and better, but gradually in various books the true character of John Ford is emerging.
Regards
Arthur
Hi.
I also read the book recently and thought it was a missed opportunity. I think that I agree with stumpy that it could have been longer and better, but gradually in various books the true character of John Ford is emerging.
Regards
Arthur
HI
Just finished the book. I have an open mind on it.
One thing I am convinced of however is that if you believe only half of what Maureen O'Hara says, and I personally believe more than that, with John Ford for a friend you didn't need enemies.
I suppose that thirty years after his death its considered safe to remove the aura of mystique and greatness that has surrounded Ford by his previous writers as more and more revalations are surfacing and there are less and less people around to either confirm or refute them.
I think in parts she comes cross as a very sad lady and in some parts quite bitter but reading through her life I suppose at times she had cause to be.
Regards
Arthur
I received the book yesterday and in a few brief moment s got through Chapter One.
Yesterday's Daily Mirror gave the book a brief mention:
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'Beautiful Maureen O'Hara star of the Quiet Man has written her autobiography Tis Herself, in which she says "I've always been a tough lass who can throw a punch".
Famous for sparring with leading men, refusing to sleep with Hollywood bosses and standing up to a bullying Walt Disney did, she admits, cost her parts. As a consequence the actress has reached 83 unburdened by remorse, regret or bitterness and says blithly she intends to live another 20 years.'
Regards
Arthur
Hi SXViper
If you go to the post Duke favourite director about the last three or four post by dukegirl and I discuss the book you might find it a mind jogger.
Regards
Arthur
Hi SXViper
I went into out local bookshop on Monday apparently Maureen's book is not released in UK until May sometime so I have ordered mine off of Amazon, can't wait to read it.
Also found out that The Lost Films of John Wayne' by Caroline McGivern is issued over here end of March. If its as good a read as her last one then it should be great.
I'll keep you informed when I get it.
Regards
Arthur
