John Wayne and Maureen O

Movie stars John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara shared electric chemistry on the silver screen that had audiences swooning. They had a special relationship in real life, but that friendship meant more to the Duke than many people realized. Wayne once called O’Hara his only female friend, exclaiming that she’s “definitely my kind of woman.”

John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara met through John Ford

John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in a black-and-white portrait with her head against his cheek, looking off to the side.
L-R: John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara | Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images

Wayne and O’Hara both had big Hollywood dreams of becoming the next hot actor in the film industry. She made her leading role debut in 1939’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Meanwhile, he accomplished the same in 1930’s The Big Trail, but 1939 was also the year that marked his launch into stardom with Stagecoach. From there, his career transformed into one of the faces of the Western and war movie genres, thanks to films, such as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Sands of Iwo Jima.

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