Bronwyn Brigid Price has a son, Connor Beau Fitzsimmons, a hairdresser who also owns his own line called "The Red Collection", honouring his famous grandmother, Maureen O'Hara. Bronwyn was named after the character played by Anna Lee, her mother's co-star, in How Green Was My Valley (1941). She takes her last name, "FitzSimmons", from her mother's original last name.It was her mother who got her started in movies with her cameo in Spencer's Mountain (1963), she showed great talent for a movie career and her mother encouraged her, but she soon dropped out of films to be a mother.Before motherhood, she made frequent appearances on television in shows like "The Virginian" (1962) and "McHale's Navy" (1962), and also had a part in a movie, The Ravagers (1965).She found out her father, Will Price, had died when she was on vacation with her mother and Lucille House (Maureen's stand in). Maureen said: "This is the happiest day of my life"!
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