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O ' Hara's father was a very practical man and did not entirely support her theatrical aspirations.

He insisted she learn a skill so that she would have something to fall back on to earn a living in case her experience in the performing arts was not successful.

She enrolled in a business school and became a proficient bookkeeper and typist.

Those skills proved helpful many years later when she was able to take and transcribe production notes dictated by John Ford for the screen adaptation of Maurice Walsh's short story The Quiet Man.