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Maureen O'Hara, the Irish redhead who co-starred in movies as "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939) and The Forbidden Street (1947), has sold a house she owned in the Encino area to a physician for $525,000, sources say.

O'Hara, who maintains her primary residence in the Virgin Islands bought the Encino house four years ago. Built 30 years ago, it has many bedrooms and a pool.

O'Hara, now in her 70's, starred in nearly 60 movies such as "How Green Was My Valley" (1941) and "Big Jake" (1971) with John Wayne. She moved to St. Croix in the 70's with her third husband, aviation pioner Charles F. Blair. He was the first pilot to make a special flight over the Artic Ocean.

O'Hara became the first woman to run a U.S. Airline when her husband with his Antilles Airboats after his death in 1978. She returned to the screen as the mother of John Candy in "Only the Lonely" (1991). Her realator won a World Wide Web Heritage Award for her Internet Web site.
Josie Gomez of 1st London Realtors, Beverly Hills, realator for this transaction in her house sale.