John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara Made 5 Movies Together, But Never Topped Their 1952 Classic With 91% On Rotten Tomatoes
John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara are two legends of Hollywood’s Golden Age who starred in five movies together, the most acclaimed of which is John Ford’s 1952 classicThe Quiet Man. Wayne and Irish actor O’Hara first worked together in Ford’s Western romanceRio Grandetwo years earlier, when their on-screen chemistry quickly became apparent. But it was only withfollow-up collaborationThe Quiet Manthat their acting partnership really came into its own. The film features a rare comic turn from Wayne as Irish-American boxer “Trooper Thorn” Thornton, who moves to rural Ireland to manage his family’s homestead....