Maureen O'Sullivan Biography

Fast Facts

• Was a schoolmate of Vivien Leigh's at London's Convent of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton
• Was discovered by director Frank Borzage while he was in Dublin, Ireland, shooting Song O' My Heart (1930)
• Borzage asked her to screen-test and liked what he saw, so he put her in the film
• Appeared in eight films in 1932, including Tarzan the Ape Man, her first of six lord-of-the-jungle adventures with Johnny Weissmuller
• Was granted a papal dispensation to marry the divorced John Farrow in 1936
• Eldest son, Michael, was killed in a 1958 plane crash while taking flying lessons
• Was a Today Girl on the Today show from 1962 to '64
• In 1962, made her Broadway debut in Never Too Late, and went on to star in the 1965 big-screen version
• Operated a bridal-consulting service called Wediquette International
• Played real-life daughter Mia Farrow's tipsy mother in 1986's Hannah and Her Sisters