At the end of a court case in the film, during a hearty speech by Laughton, O'Hara is shown teary-eyed on screen for a prolonged period.
Though not a major commercial success, it fared better in the eyes of the critics.
She and the Duke made five films together, some with the notoriously irascible John Ford, with whom she feuded and who might have been secretly in love with her.
The following year, she starred in the Portuguese-set melodramatic mystery film for.
I've had many friends, and I prefer the company of men.
She was 95 years old.