It’s an incident that tells you a lot about John Candy. He was hard at work on Only the Lonely, the 1991 film that would help affirm his credibility as a dramatic actor. But it also marked an occasion when the famously affable Candy lost his cool when he realized that his legendary co-star, Maureen O’Hara, was not receiving the respect she deserved.

His top billing and seven-figure salary ensured luxury treatment for Candy during the shoot. That included the provision of an opulent trailer on location. Such was not the case for O’Hara: despite her status as a reigning queen of Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s, she had been assigned something insultingly basic.

Thanks to a meticulously researched biography of the revered Canadian comic, we now have the straight goods on what happened.

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