I then worked around the top of the head.
As this area was in the shadow, I did not leave many highlights. I tried to hatch in the general dark zones in the hair and on the sweater with the watercolor pencil then worked this area with a broad watercolor brush. I gradually worked the main shading on the face before commencing the hair and arm on the left-hand side of the drawing. I started with the nose and eyes using a 2B pencil, quickly discovering that I was once again making my nose too long. By this time, it was getting dark in the room, so I positioned a lamp next to my right shoulder causing the bottom left-hand corner to be considerably darker than the right-hand side.
*Originally published in March 2019, updated in August 2020.When considering how to draw my initial main sketch, I decided to try to use fine lines in building up the shadows of the face, and then watercolor dissolvable 8B pencil to create less detailed broader strokes in the hair and the cabled jersey. O’Hara claimed vindication but the mystery remains. The jury deadlocked and the state reached a deal with Confidential about their prying coverage. The defense pointed out, however, that no one seemed to be certain of the exact date three years after it happened, and it could very well have been when O'Hara was in the country. She ultimately disproved the Confidential story by producing a passport stamp that confirmed she was in Spain filming "Fire Over Africa" when the tabloid had placed her in the Hollywood theater. She even brought her sister, a nun, along as a character witness. She was a nice Irish girl who would never do that. While others dropped out of the suit, O'Hara persisted. O'Hara's case was one of those included.Īccording to the Los Angeles Times, O'Hara and other entertainers filed suit against Confidential after being recruited by actor and future US Senator George Murphy.
How Maureen O’Hara said a final farewell to John WayneĬonfidential was a magazine that had lost a libel suit to the famed pianist Liberace when they suggested his theme song be “Mad About the Boy.” The State of California had wanted to shut down Confidential for some time and they sued it for libelous stories.That angle would certainly not be lost on Confidential, notorious for using the race and anti-gay codes. In the atmosphere of the time, Hispanics were considered lower-class peasants. The fact that Hernandez was Hispanic added to the scandal. She was certainly dating Hernandez and passionately in love at the time she was reported to have had an amorous evening at the movies by Confidential. When I was with Enrique, we were inseparable,” she said. “I think at first I was just so happy to be included in his life and have him show a sincere interest in mine. The same year she and Price divorced, O'Hara met Enrique Parra Hernandez, a dashing lawyer and politician, at a Mexico City film festival. O'Hara's affair with Enrique Parra Hernandez In his spare time, he was an unemployed producer.
In the United States, O'Hara fell in with one William Price, a legendary boozer when he wasn’t hooking up in whorehouses. One with George Brown - the father of the famed magazine editor Tina Brown - who she met on the set for Jamaica Inn, her first film, shortly before she set out for Hollywood from Ireland. Maureen O'Hara's marriagesĪt the time of the Confidential story, O'Hara already had two marriages to her credit. The allegation was shocking - O’Hara had a pristine reputation, a conservative Irish lass with no time for casting couch shenanigans. The coat was off, his collar was open, and his tie was hanging limply at half-mast in the steam.” The guy had come in wearing a spruce blue suit. They didn't, and he came back again to see O’Hara seated in the Latino man’s lap, so he threw them out.Īs the Confidential writer noted, “Maureen had entered Grauman’s wearing a white silk blouse neatly buttoned.