‘Marine’ O’Hara praised by US army elite for recruitment-boosting role

THE US Marine Corps last night honoured screen legend Maureen O’Hara for one of her great war-time movie roles, which it says helped boost recruitment during the Second World War.

A retired marine captain presented the feisty actress with two letters, one from the former head of the Marine Corps, and one from its current head, as she introduced a screening of her 1942 movie, To the Shores of Tripoli, as part of the Maureen O’Hara Classic Film Festival in Glengarriff, Co Cork.

In the movie, O’Hara plays a navy nurse in what turned out to be one of the last of the pre-Pearl Harbor service films.