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Gene Tierney: Click Here For Gene's Biography |
Gene Tierney: Click Here For Gene's Filmography
The personality, the face, the acting and the body are all part and parcel of what made Gene Tierney so memorable. What is worth pondering though, is why this talent, with over 40 movies to her credit (actually a low number considering the decade she began acting in), has only four of those 40+ films available on DVD?
Born November 19, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York she found herself growing up and studying within the realm of the well-off. Her father was a very successful insurance broker and her mother, a former teacher...he grandparents were also quite well off and she spent time with them off and on in Connecticut. She studied at prominent schools both in the United States and a finishing school in Switzerland. All of this would prove to be a boon to her as she would often play socialite's and debutantes. By the time she was 19, she was back in the States and performing on Broadway. It was there that she would be "discovered" by producer Daryl Zanuck.
| Her career would be a rather rocky one though she worked with such director's as Fritz Lang (in her film debut The Return Of Frank James with Henry Fonda), Ernst Lubitsch (Heaven Can Wait), Michael Curtiz (The Egyptian), and Otto Preminger (Laura). |
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With the work steady and seemingly fulfilling, where is the darker spots that fill out a biography? TIerney had it in spades in her personal life. Affairs with such looming figures as John F. Kennedy, Howard Hughes and international playboy Ali Kahn came to nothing and her eventual marriage to fashion designer Oleg Cassini was destroyed by his infidelities. In spite of this, she had become pregnant with his child, but during her pregnancy she came down with German measles (the result of an innocent kiss from a fan) and their daughter was born a deaf-mute. Surprisingly, they didn't divorce until 1952, making it an 11 year marriage, which is three lifetimes and one reincarnation in Hollywood.
In the mid 50's, after making The Left Hand of God with Humphrey Bogart, Tierney would disappear for a few years. She was burnt out, depressed and had herself hospitalized where she would undergo shock treatment. She didn't give up though and by 1962 she was back on the scene and performing before the camera's and Otto Preminger once more in Advise and Consent, a taught political drama. Sadly, after this her career was winding down and she would make only three more films, Toys in the Attic (1963), Four Nights of the Full Moon (1963) and The Pleasure Seekers (1964). Her work after this would consists of a few T.V. shows and mini-series including M.A.S.H. in 1972.
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She married Texan Oil tycoon Howard Lee (who was then the ex-husband of actress Hedy Lamarr) in 1960 and the marriage would be her last, only ending in 1981 with the death of Lee. In 1979 she wrote and published her autobiography Self Portrait. |
Fans of Tierney often note, that this gorgeous talent was told on her first film that her voice was too high. The recommendation was for her to smoke, to add a heavier, thicker sound to her voice. The trick worked, the only catch was she died of emphysema in Texas on November 6, 1991, just a couple of weeks short of her 71st birthday.
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