GENE TIERNEY VINTAGE 1940s GELATIN SILVER PHOTOGRAPH
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GENE TIERNEY ORIGINAL VINTAGE 1940s GELATIN SILVER PHOTOGRAPH
DESCRIPTION: Original vintage 1940s gelatin silver photograph of actress GENE... TIERNEY
- SIZE: approx. 10" X 8"
- TONE: B&W
- FINISH: glossy
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GENETIERNEY BIO(November19, 1920 ? November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimedas one of the great beauties of her day, she is best-remembered for herperformance in the title role of Laura (1944) and her AcademyAward-nominated performance for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven(1945). Other notable roles include Martha Strable Van Cleve in Heaven CanWait (1943), Isabel Bradley Maturin in The Razor's Edge (1946), LucyMuir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Ann Sutton in Whirlpool(1949), Maggie Carleton McNulty in The Mating Season (1951) and AnneScott in The Left Hand of God (1955). Certain of her film-relatedmaterial and personal papers are contained in the Wesleyan University CinemaArchives, to which scholars and media experts from around the world may havefull access.Tierney wasborn in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Howard SherwoodTierney and Belle Lavina Taylor. She had an elder brother, Howard Sherwood?Butch? Tierney, Jr., and a younger sister, Patricia ?Pat? Tierney. Her fatherwas a prosperous insurance broker of Irish descent, her mother a former gymteacher.Tierneyattended St. Margaret?s School in Waterbury, Connecticut, and the UnquowaSchool in Bridgeport, Connecticut.Her first poem, entitled ?Night, ? was published in the school magazine, andwriting verse became an occasional pastime during the rest of her life. Shethen spent two years in Europe and attended the Brillantmont finishing schoolin Lausanne, Switzerland, where she learned tospeak fluent French.Tierneyreturned to the U.S.in 1938 and attended Miss Porter's School. On a trip to the West Coast, shevisited Warner Bros. studios. The director Anatole Litvak, who was so taken bythe seventeen-year-old?s beauty, told her that she should become an actress.Warner Bros. wanted to sign her to a contract, but her parents advised againstit because of the low salary.Tierney?scoming-out party as a debutante occurred onSeptember 24, 1938, when she was 17 years old. She was bored with society lifeand decided to pursue a career in acting. Her father felt ?If Gene is to be anactress, it should be in the legitimate theatre.? Tierney studied acting at asmall Greenwich Village acting studio in New York with Benno Schneider.InTierney?s first part on Broadway, she carried a bucket of water across thestage in What a Life! (1938). A Variety magazine critic declared, "Miss Tierney is certainly the most beautiful water carrier I?ve everseen!" At the same time, she was an understudy for The Primrose Path(1938).[8] The next year, she appeared in the role as Molly O' Dayin the Broadway production Mrs. O' Brien Entertains The New YorkTimes critic Brooks Atkinson wrote, "As an Irish maiden fresh from theold country, Gene Tierney in her first stage performance is very pretty andrefreshingly modest."[10] That same year, Tierney appeared asPeggy Carr in Ring Two (1939) to favorable reviews. Theater criticRichard Watts, Jr. of the New York Herald Tribune wrote, "I see noreason why Miss Tierney should not have an interesting theatrical career, thatis if cinema does not kidnap her away." (1939). Tierney?sfather set up a corporation, Belle-Tier, to fund and promote her acting career(He later went on to steal all of her money).[12]Columbia Picturessigned her to a six-month contract in 1939. She also met Howard Hughes, whotried unsuccessfully to seduce her, but she was from a well-to-do family andwas not impressed by Hughes' wealth. He did, however, become a lifelong friend.A cameraman advised Tierney to lose a little weight, saying ?a thinner face ismore seductive.? Tierney then wrote to Harper?s Bazaar for a diet, whichshe followed for the next twenty-five years. Years later Tierney was quoted assaying, "I love to eat. For all of Hollywood'srewards, I was hungry for most of those twenty-five years." Tierney wasoffered the lead role in National Velvet but production was delayed. NationalVelvet would be produced at MGM in 1944. ColumbiaPictures failed to find Tierney a project; so, she returned to Broadway andstarred as Patricia Stanley to critical and commercial success in The MaleAnimal (1940). In The New York Times, Brooks Atkinson wrote, "Tierney blazes with animation in the best performance she has yetgiven". She was the toast of Broadway before her 20th birthday.The MaleAnimalwas a hit, and Tierney was featured in Life magazine. She was alsophotographed by Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and Collier's weeklyTwoweeks after The Male Animal opened, one evening before the curtain wentup, there was a rumor that Darryl F. Zanuck, the head of 20th Century Fox hadflown in from the coast and was in the audience. During the performance, hetold an assistant to make a note of Tierney's name. Later that night, Zanuckdropped by the Stork Club, where he saw a young lady on the dance floor. Hetold his assistant, "Forget the girl from the play. See if you can signthat one." It was Tierney. Zanuck was not easily convinced that the twowomen were one and the same. Tierney was quoted after the fact, "I alwayshad several different 'looks', a quality that proved useful in my career."Hollywood called once again, Tierney signed with 20th Century-Fox.[19]Her motion picture debut was in a supporting role as Elenore Stone in FritzLang's western The Return of Frank James (1940), opposite Henry Fonda. Asmall role as Barbara Hall followed in Hudson's Bay (1941) with PaulMuni.Also, in1941, Tierney co-starred as Ellie Mae Lester in John Ford's comedy TobaccoRoad, along with the title role in Belle Starr, Zia in Sundownand Victoria Charteris a.k.a. Poppy Smith in The Shanghai Gesture. Thefollowing year, she played Eve in Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake, along with the dual role as Susan Miller a.k.a. Linda Worthington in RoubenMamoulian's screwball comedy film Rings on Her Fingers, Kay Saunders in ThunderBirds and Miss Young in China Girl.Top billingin Ernst Lubitsch's classic 1943 comedy Heaven Can Wait as MarthaStrable Van Cleve signaled an upward turn in Tierney's career, as herpopularity increased. Tierney recalled during the production of Heaven CanWait, "Lubitsch was a tyrant on the set, the most demanding ofdirectors. After one scene, which took from noon until five to get, I wasalmost in tears from listening to Lubitsch shout at me. The next day I soughthim out, looked him in the eye, and said, 'Mr. Lubitsch, I'm willing to do mybest but I just can't go on working on this picture if you're going to keepshouting at me.' 'I'm paid to shout at you', he bellowed. 'Yes', I said, 'andI'm paid to take it ? but not enough.' After a tense pause, Lubitsch broke outlaughing. From then on we got along famously."[20] In 1944, shestarred in what became her most famous role ? the intended murder victim, LauraHunt, in Otto Preminger's film noir Laura, opposite Dana Andrews. Afterplaying Tina Tomasino in A Bell for Adano (1945), she played thejealous, narcissistic femme fatale Ellen Berent Harland, opposite Cornel Wilde, in the film version of the best-selling Ben Ames Williams novel Leave Her toHeaven, a performance that won her an Academy Award nomination for BestActress (1945). Leave Her To Heaven was 20th Century-Fox's mostsuccessful film of the 1940s.In 1946, Tierney starred as Miranda Wells in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's debut film as adirector in Dragonwyck. That same year, she starred in anothercritically-praised performance as Isabel Bradley, opposite Tyrone Power, in TheRazor's Edge, an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel. She followedthat with her role as Lucy Muir in Mankiewicz's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir(1947), which many critics and film scholars have noted to be her greatestperformance (besides Laura) for which she did not receive an Academy Awardnomination for Best Actress. The following year, Tierney co-starred once againwith Power, this time as Sara Farley in the successful screwball comedy film ThatWonderful Urge (1948). As the decade came to a close, Tierney reunited withLaura director Preminger to star as Ann Sutton in the classic film noir Whirlpool, co-starring Richard Conte and José Ferrer (1949).Tierney gavememorable performances in two other film noirs (both in 1950) ? Jules Dassin's Nightand the City and Otto Preminger's Where the Sidewalk Ends. In 1951, Tierney was loaned out to Paramount Pictures and gave a memorable comic turn asMaggie Carleton in Mitchell Leisen's classic ensemble screwball comedy film TheMating Season with John Lund, Thelma Ritter and Miriam Hopkins.[22]This was also the year Tierney gave a tender performance as Midge Sheridan inthe Warner Bros. film Close to My Heart (1951) with Ray Milland. Thefilm is about a couple trying to adopt. Tierney felt this was her best role ina half-dozen years, as it touched the chords of her own experience. The filmaddressed the issue of "nature versus nurture" and opened an earlyconversation about the adoption process. Later in her career, she would bereunited with Milland in Daughter of the Mind (1969), which has a cultfollowing.Afterappearing opposite Rory Calhoun as Teresa in Way of a Gaucho (1952), hercontract at 20th Century-Fox expired. That same year, she starred as DorothyBradford in Plymouth Adventure, opposite Spencer Tracy at MGM, duringwhich she had a brief romance with Tracy.Tierney then played Marya Lamarkina, opposite Clark Gable, in Never Let Me Go (1953), which was filmed in England. Shefound Gable patient and considerate, but lonely and vulnerable, as he was stillmourning the death of Carole Lombard.[25] She remained in Europe to play Kay Barlow in United Artists' PersonalAffair (1953), which was released that same year. While Tierney was in Europe, she began a romance with Prince Aly Khan, buttheir marriage plans met with fierce opposition from his father, Aga Khan III.Early in 1953, Tierney returned to the U.S. to co-star in a film noir filmas Iris Denver in Black Widow (1954) with Ginger Rogers and Van Heflin. During 1953, Tierney's mental health problems were becoming harder for her to hide; shedropped out of Mogambo and was replaced by Grace Kelly.[28]While playing Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God (1955), oppositeHumphrey Bogart, Tierney?s long string of personal troubles finally took itstoll. She said that ?Bogey could tell that I was mentally unstable.? During theproduction, he fed Tierney her lines and encouraged her to seek help. Worriedabout her mental health, she consulted a psychiatrist, and was admitted toHarkness Pavilion in New York.Later, she went to The Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut.After some 27 shock treatments, Tierney attempted to flee, but was caught andreturned. She became an outspoken opponent of shock treatment therapy, claimingthat it had destroyed significant portions of her memory.In 1957, Tierney was seen by a neighbor as she was about to jump from a ledge. Thepolice were called, and she was admitted to the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansason December 25. She was released from Menninger the following year, after atreatment that included - in its final stages - working as a sales girl in alarge department store (where she was recognized by a customer, resulting insensational newspaper headlines).Later thatyear, 20th Century-Fox offered her a lead role in Holiday for Lovers(1957), but the stress proved too great. Days into production, she was forcedto drop out of the film and was readmitted to Menninger.Tierney madea screen comeback in Advise and Consent(1962), co-starring with Franchot Tone. A year later, she played AlbertinePrine in Toys in the Attic, followed by the International production of Las cuatro noches de la luna llena (1963) withDan Dailey. She received overall critical praise for her performances.Tierney's career turn as a solid character actress seemed to be on track. Sheplayed Jane Barton in The Pleasure Seekers (1964), then again retired.Tierney cameback to star in the television movie Daughterof the Mind (1969) with Don Murray and Ray Milland. Her final performancewas in the TV miniseries Scruples (1980).Tierneymarried twice, first to costume and fashion designer Oleg Cassini on June 1, 1941. She and Cassini had two daughters, Antoinette Daria Cassini (born October15, 1943) and Christina "Tina" Cassini (born November 19, 1948).In June1943, while pregnant with Daria, Tierney contracted rubella during her onlyappearance at the Hollywood Canteen. Daria was born prematurely in Washington, D.C., weighing only three pounds, two ounces (1.42 kg) and requiring a totalblood transfusion. Because of Tierney's illness, Daria was also deaf, partiallyblind with cataracts and had severe mental retardation. Tierney's grief overthe tragedy led to many years of depression and may have begun her bipolardisorder. Some time after the tragedy surrounding her daughter Daria's birth, Tierney learned from a fan who approached her for an autograph at a tennis partythat the woman (who was then a member of the women's branch of the MarineCorps) had sneaked out of quarantine while sick with rubella to meet Tierney ather only Hollywood Canteen appearance. In her autobiography, Tierney relatedthat after the woman had recounted her story, she just stared at her silently, then turned and walked away. She wrote, "After that I didn't care whetherever again I was anyone's favorite actress." Biographers have theorizedthat Agatha Christie used this real-life tragedy as the basis of her plot for TheMirror Crack'd from Side to Side. The incident, as well as thecircumstances under which the information was imparted to the actress, isrepeated almost verbatim in the story. Tierney's tragedy had beenwell-publicized for years previously. During this time, Howard Hughes, an oldfriend, saw to it that Daria received the best medical care available, payingfor all of her medical expenses. Tierney never forgot Hughes' acts of kindness.Tierneyseparated from Cassini, challenged by the marital stress of Daria's condition, but they later reconciled and had a second daughter, Tina. During herseparation, during the filming of Dragonwyck, she met a young John F. Kennedy, who was visiting the set. They began a romance that ended the following year, when Kennedy told her he could never marry her because of his politicalambitions. Tierney then reconciled with Cassini, but they divorced on February28, 1952. "Cassini promised in his 1952 divorce from Gene Tierney that hewould write a will leaving both of his daughters half of his fortune".n 1960, Tierney sent Kennedy a note of congratulations on his election victory; shelater admitted that she had voted for Richard Nixon, saying, "I thoughtthat he would make a better president."In 1958, Tierney met Texasoil baron W. Howard Lee, who was married to Hedy Lamarr from 1953 to 1960.Tierney and Lee married in Aspen, Colorado on July 11, 1960, and lived in Houston, Texas.She loved life in Texaswith Lee and became an expert contract bridge player. In 1962, 20thCentury Fox announced Tierney would play the lead role in Return toPeyton Place, but she became pregnant and dropped out of the project. Shelater miscarried. Tierney'sautobiography, Self-Portrait, in which she candidly discussed her life, career and mental illness, was published in 1979.On February17, 1981, Tierney was widowed when Lee died after a long illness.Gene Tierneydied in 1991, shortly before her 71st birthday, of emphysema in Houston, Texas.She had started smoking after a screening of her first movie to lower her voicebecause "I sound like an angry Minnie Mouse." She became a heavysmoker, which contributed to her death. She is interred next to Lee in the Glenwood Cemeteryin Houston, Texas.In 1986, Tierney was honored alongside actor Gregory Peck with the first DonostiaLifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastian FilmFestival Spain for their body of work.For hercontribution to the motion picture industry, Tierney has a star on theHollywood Walk of Fame at 6125 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.Filmography Year Film Role Director Other cast Notes 1940 The Return of Frank James Eleanor Stone Fritz Lang Henry Fonda Technicolor Hudson's Bay Barbra Hall Irving Pichel Paul Muni
Vincent Price 1941 Tobacco Road Ellie Mae Lester John Ford Charles Grapewin
Dana Andrews Belle Starr Belle Starr Irving Cummings Randolph Scott
Dana Andrews Technicolor Sundown Zia Henry Hathaway Bruce Cabot The Shanghai Gesture Victoria Charteris aka
Poppy Smith Josef von Sternberg Walter Huston 1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake Eve John Cromwell Tyrone Power Sepia tone
(sequences) Rings on Her Fingers Susan Miller aka
Linda Worthington Rouben Mamoulian Henry Fonda Thunder Birds Kay Saunders William A. Wellman Preston Foster
John Sutton Technicolor China Girl Miss Young Henry Hathaway George Montgomery 1943 Heaven Can Wait Martha Strabel Van Cleve Ernst Lubitsch Don Ameche Technicolor 1944 Laura Laura Hunt Otto Preminger Dana Andrews
Clifton Webb
Vincent Price 1945 A Bell for Adano Tina Tomasino Henry King John Hodiak Leave Her to Heaven Ellen Brent Harland John M. Stahl Cornel Wilde
Jeanne Crain
Vincent Price Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress
Technicolor 1946 Dragonwyck Miranda Wells Van Ryn Joseph L. Mankiewicz Walter Huston
Vincent Price The Razor's Edge Isabel Bradley Maturin Edmund Goulding Tyrone Power
Anne Baxter
John Payne 1947 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Lucy Muir Joseph L. Mankiewicz Rex Harrison
George Sanders
Edna Best 1948 The Iron Curtain Anne Gouzenko William A. Wellman Dana Andrews That Wonderful Urge Sara Farley Robert B. Sinclair Tyrone Power 1949 Whirlpool Ann Sutton Otto Preminger Richard Conte
José Ferrer 1950 Night and the City Mary Bristol Jules Dassin Richard Widmark Where the Sidewalk Ends Morgan Taylor (Paine) Otto Preminger Dana Andrews 1951 The Mating Season Maggie Carleton McNulty Mitchell Leisen John Lund
Miriam Hopkins
Thelma Ritter On the Riviera Lili Duran Walter Lang Danny Kaye Technicolor The Secret of Convict Lake Marcia Stoddard Michael Gordon Glenn Ford Close to My Heart Midge Seridan William Keighley Ray Milland 1952 Way of a Gaucho Teresa Jacques Tourneur Rory Calhoun Technicolor Plymouth Adventure Dorothy Bradford Clarence Brown Spencer Tracy
Van Johnson
Leo Genn Technicolor 1953 Never Let Me Go Marya Lamarkina Delmer Daves Clark Gable Personal Affair Kay Barlow Anthony Pelissier Leo Genn
Glynis Johns 1954 Black Widow Iris Denver Nunnally Johnson Ginger Rogers CinemaScope
Deluxe color The Egyptian Baketamon Michael Curtiz Jean Simmons
Victor Mature
Edmund Purdom CinemaScope
Deluxe color 1955 The Left Hand of God Anne Scott Edward Dmytryk Humphrey Bogart CinemaScope
Deluxe color 1962 Advise and Consent Dolly Harrison Otto Preminger Henry Fonda
Walter Pidgeon
Franchot Tone Panavision 1963 Toys in the Attic Albertine Prine George Roy Hill Dean Martin Las cuatro noches de la luna llena
aka Four Nights of the Full Moon Sobey Martin Dan Dailey 1964 The Pleasure Seekers Jane Barton Jean Negulesco Ann-Margret CinemaScope
Deluxe color
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DESCRIPTION: Original vintage 1940s gelatin silver photograph of actress GENE... TIERNEY
- SIZE: approx. 10" X 8"
- TONE: B&W
- FINISH: glossy
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SHIPPING TERMS
- I ship all items using, what I call, triple protection packing.The photos are inserted into a display bag with a white board, thenpacked in between two thick packaging boards and lastly wrapped withplastic film for weather protection before being placed into theshipping envelope.
- The shipping cost for U.S. shipments includes USPS "Delivery Confirmation" tracking.
- Combined Shipping Discounts:If you purchasemore than one item within a two week period that will be shippedtogether just add $2.00 to the base shipping cost. This will cover anyadditional quantity of a similar item purchased. If you purchasedifferent types of items (i.e. clothes andphotos) please contact me for the lowest possible shipping discount. Please wait for me to issue the invoice with the reduced shipping cost before making payment.
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- Please pay within three (3) days of purchase.
- All sales taxes applicable to the City of Los Angeles, State ofCalifornia and the 2019 Marketplace Sales Tax Law in other states shall beapplied.
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GENETIERNEY BIO(November19, 1920 ? November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimedas one of the great beauties of her day, she is best-remembered for herperformance in the title role of Laura (1944) and her AcademyAward-nominated performance for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven(1945). Other notable roles include Martha Strable Van Cleve in Heaven CanWait (1943), Isabel Bradley Maturin in The Razor's Edge (1946), LucyMuir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Ann Sutton in Whirlpool(1949), Maggie Carleton McNulty in The Mating Season (1951) and AnneScott in The Left Hand of God (1955). Certain of her film-relatedmaterial and personal papers are contained in the Wesleyan University CinemaArchives, to which scholars and media experts from around the world may havefull access.Tierney wasborn in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Howard SherwoodTierney and Belle Lavina Taylor. She had an elder brother, Howard Sherwood?Butch? Tierney, Jr., and a younger sister, Patricia ?Pat? Tierney. Her fatherwas a prosperous insurance broker of Irish descent, her mother a former gymteacher.Tierneyattended St. Margaret?s School in Waterbury, Connecticut, and the UnquowaSchool in Bridgeport, Connecticut.Her first poem, entitled ?Night, ? was published in the school magazine, andwriting verse became an occasional pastime during the rest of her life. Shethen spent two years in Europe and attended the Brillantmont finishing schoolin Lausanne, Switzerland, where she learned tospeak fluent French.Tierneyreturned to the U.S.in 1938 and attended Miss Porter's School. On a trip to the West Coast, shevisited Warner Bros. studios. The director Anatole Litvak, who was so taken bythe seventeen-year-old?s beauty, told her that she should become an actress.Warner Bros. wanted to sign her to a contract, but her parents advised againstit because of the low salary.Tierney?scoming-out party as a debutante occurred onSeptember 24, 1938, when she was 17 years old. She was bored with society lifeand decided to pursue a career in acting. Her father felt ?If Gene is to be anactress, it should be in the legitimate theatre.? Tierney studied acting at asmall Greenwich Village acting studio in New York with Benno Schneider.InTierney?s first part on Broadway, she carried a bucket of water across thestage in What a Life! (1938). A Variety magazine critic declared, "Miss Tierney is certainly the most beautiful water carrier I?ve everseen!" At the same time, she was an understudy for The Primrose Path(1938).[8] The next year, she appeared in the role as Molly O' Dayin the Broadway production Mrs. O' Brien Entertains The New YorkTimes critic Brooks Atkinson wrote, "As an Irish maiden fresh from theold country, Gene Tierney in her first stage performance is very pretty andrefreshingly modest."[10] That same year, Tierney appeared asPeggy Carr in Ring Two (1939) to favorable reviews. Theater criticRichard Watts, Jr. of the New York Herald Tribune wrote, "I see noreason why Miss Tierney should not have an interesting theatrical career, thatis if cinema does not kidnap her away." (1939). Tierney?sfather set up a corporation, Belle-Tier, to fund and promote her acting career(He later went on to steal all of her money).[12]Columbia Picturessigned her to a six-month contract in 1939. She also met Howard Hughes, whotried unsuccessfully to seduce her, but she was from a well-to-do family andwas not impressed by Hughes' wealth. He did, however, become a lifelong friend.A cameraman advised Tierney to lose a little weight, saying ?a thinner face ismore seductive.? Tierney then wrote to Harper?s Bazaar for a diet, whichshe followed for the next twenty-five years. Years later Tierney was quoted assaying, "I love to eat. For all of Hollywood'srewards, I was hungry for most of those twenty-five years." Tierney wasoffered the lead role in National Velvet but production was delayed. NationalVelvet would be produced at MGM in 1944. ColumbiaPictures failed to find Tierney a project; so, she returned to Broadway andstarred as Patricia Stanley to critical and commercial success in The MaleAnimal (1940). In The New York Times, Brooks Atkinson wrote, "Tierney blazes with animation in the best performance she has yetgiven". She was the toast of Broadway before her 20th birthday.The MaleAnimalwas a hit, and Tierney was featured in Life magazine. She was alsophotographed by Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and Collier's weeklyTwoweeks after The Male Animal opened, one evening before the curtain wentup, there was a rumor that Darryl F. Zanuck, the head of 20th Century Fox hadflown in from the coast and was in the audience. During the performance, hetold an assistant to make a note of Tierney's name. Later that night, Zanuckdropped by the Stork Club, where he saw a young lady on the dance floor. Hetold his assistant, "Forget the girl from the play. See if you can signthat one." It was Tierney. Zanuck was not easily convinced that the twowomen were one and the same. Tierney was quoted after the fact, "I alwayshad several different 'looks', a quality that proved useful in my career."Hollywood called once again, Tierney signed with 20th Century-Fox.[19]Her motion picture debut was in a supporting role as Elenore Stone in FritzLang's western The Return of Frank James (1940), opposite Henry Fonda. Asmall role as Barbara Hall followed in Hudson's Bay (1941) with PaulMuni.Also, in1941, Tierney co-starred as Ellie Mae Lester in John Ford's comedy TobaccoRoad, along with the title role in Belle Starr, Zia in Sundownand Victoria Charteris a.k.a. Poppy Smith in The Shanghai Gesture. Thefollowing year, she played Eve in Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake, along with the dual role as Susan Miller a.k.a. Linda Worthington in RoubenMamoulian's screwball comedy film Rings on Her Fingers, Kay Saunders in ThunderBirds and Miss Young in China Girl.Top billingin Ernst Lubitsch's classic 1943 comedy Heaven Can Wait as MarthaStrable Van Cleve signaled an upward turn in Tierney's career, as herpopularity increased. Tierney recalled during the production of Heaven CanWait, "Lubitsch was a tyrant on the set, the most demanding ofdirectors. After one scene, which took from noon until five to get, I wasalmost in tears from listening to Lubitsch shout at me. The next day I soughthim out, looked him in the eye, and said, 'Mr. Lubitsch, I'm willing to do mybest but I just can't go on working on this picture if you're going to keepshouting at me.' 'I'm paid to shout at you', he bellowed. 'Yes', I said, 'andI'm paid to take it ? but not enough.' After a tense pause, Lubitsch broke outlaughing. From then on we got along famously."[20] In 1944, shestarred in what became her most famous role ? the intended murder victim, LauraHunt, in Otto Preminger's film noir Laura, opposite Dana Andrews. Afterplaying Tina Tomasino in A Bell for Adano (1945), she played thejealous, narcissistic femme fatale Ellen Berent Harland, opposite Cornel Wilde, in the film version of the best-selling Ben Ames Williams novel Leave Her toHeaven, a performance that won her an Academy Award nomination for BestActress (1945). Leave Her To Heaven was 20th Century-Fox's mostsuccessful film of the 1940s.In 1946, Tierney starred as Miranda Wells in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's debut film as adirector in Dragonwyck. That same year, she starred in anothercritically-praised performance as Isabel Bradley, opposite Tyrone Power, in TheRazor's Edge, an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel. She followedthat with her role as Lucy Muir in Mankiewicz's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir(1947), which many critics and film scholars have noted to be her greatestperformance (besides Laura) for which she did not receive an Academy Awardnomination for Best Actress. The following year, Tierney co-starred once againwith Power, this time as Sara Farley in the successful screwball comedy film ThatWonderful Urge (1948). As the decade came to a close, Tierney reunited withLaura director Preminger to star as Ann Sutton in the classic film noir Whirlpool, co-starring Richard Conte and José Ferrer (1949).Tierney gavememorable performances in two other film noirs (both in 1950) ? Jules Dassin's Nightand the City and Otto Preminger's Where the Sidewalk Ends. In 1951, Tierney was loaned out to Paramount Pictures and gave a memorable comic turn asMaggie Carleton in Mitchell Leisen's classic ensemble screwball comedy film TheMating Season with John Lund, Thelma Ritter and Miriam Hopkins.[22]This was also the year Tierney gave a tender performance as Midge Sheridan inthe Warner Bros. film Close to My Heart (1951) with Ray Milland. Thefilm is about a couple trying to adopt. Tierney felt this was her best role ina half-dozen years, as it touched the chords of her own experience. The filmaddressed the issue of "nature versus nurture" and opened an earlyconversation about the adoption process. Later in her career, she would bereunited with Milland in Daughter of the Mind (1969), which has a cultfollowing.Afterappearing opposite Rory Calhoun as Teresa in Way of a Gaucho (1952), hercontract at 20th Century-Fox expired. That same year, she starred as DorothyBradford in Plymouth Adventure, opposite Spencer Tracy at MGM, duringwhich she had a brief romance with Tracy.Tierney then played Marya Lamarkina, opposite Clark Gable, in Never Let Me Go (1953), which was filmed in England. Shefound Gable patient and considerate, but lonely and vulnerable, as he was stillmourning the death of Carole Lombard.[25] She remained in Europe to play Kay Barlow in United Artists' PersonalAffair (1953), which was released that same year. While Tierney was in Europe, she began a romance with Prince Aly Khan, buttheir marriage plans met with fierce opposition from his father, Aga Khan III.Early in 1953, Tierney returned to the U.S. to co-star in a film noir filmas Iris Denver in Black Widow (1954) with Ginger Rogers and Van Heflin. During 1953, Tierney's mental health problems were becoming harder for her to hide; shedropped out of Mogambo and was replaced by Grace Kelly.[28]While playing Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God (1955), oppositeHumphrey Bogart, Tierney?s long string of personal troubles finally took itstoll. She said that ?Bogey could tell that I was mentally unstable.? During theproduction, he fed Tierney her lines and encouraged her to seek help. Worriedabout her mental health, she consulted a psychiatrist, and was admitted toHarkness Pavilion in New York.Later, she went to The Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut.After some 27 shock treatments, Tierney attempted to flee, but was caught andreturned. She became an outspoken opponent of shock treatment therapy, claimingthat it had destroyed significant portions of her memory.In 1957, Tierney was seen by a neighbor as she was about to jump from a ledge. Thepolice were called, and she was admitted to the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansason December 25. She was released from Menninger the following year, after atreatment that included - in its final stages - working as a sales girl in alarge department store (where she was recognized by a customer, resulting insensational newspaper headlines).Later thatyear, 20th Century-Fox offered her a lead role in Holiday for Lovers(1957), but the stress proved too great. Days into production, she was forcedto drop out of the film and was readmitted to Menninger.Tierney madea screen comeback in Advise and Consent(1962), co-starring with Franchot Tone. A year later, she played AlbertinePrine in Toys in the Attic, followed by the International production of Las cuatro noches de la luna llena (1963) withDan Dailey. She received overall critical praise for her performances.Tierney's career turn as a solid character actress seemed to be on track. Sheplayed Jane Barton in The Pleasure Seekers (1964), then again retired.Tierney cameback to star in the television movie Daughterof the Mind (1969) with Don Murray and Ray Milland. Her final performancewas in the TV miniseries Scruples (1980).Tierneymarried twice, first to costume and fashion designer Oleg Cassini on June 1, 1941. She and Cassini had two daughters, Antoinette Daria Cassini (born October15, 1943) and Christina "Tina" Cassini (born November 19, 1948).In June1943, while pregnant with Daria, Tierney contracted rubella during her onlyappearance at the Hollywood Canteen. Daria was born prematurely in Washington, D.C., weighing only three pounds, two ounces (1.42 kg) and requiring a totalblood transfusion. Because of Tierney's illness, Daria was also deaf, partiallyblind with cataracts and had severe mental retardation. Tierney's grief overthe tragedy led to many years of depression and may have begun her bipolardisorder. Some time after the tragedy surrounding her daughter Daria's birth, Tierney learned from a fan who approached her for an autograph at a tennis partythat the woman (who was then a member of the women's branch of the MarineCorps) had sneaked out of quarantine while sick with rubella to meet Tierney ather only Hollywood Canteen appearance. In her autobiography, Tierney relatedthat after the woman had recounted her story, she just stared at her silently, then turned and walked away. She wrote, "After that I didn't care whetherever again I was anyone's favorite actress." Biographers have theorizedthat Agatha Christie used this real-life tragedy as the basis of her plot for TheMirror Crack'd from Side to Side. The incident, as well as thecircumstances under which the information was imparted to the actress, isrepeated almost verbatim in the story. Tierney's tragedy had beenwell-publicized for years previously. During this time, Howard Hughes, an oldfriend, saw to it that Daria received the best medical care available, payingfor all of her medical expenses. Tierney never forgot Hughes' acts of kindness.Tierneyseparated from Cassini, challenged by the marital stress of Daria's condition, but they later reconciled and had a second daughter, Tina. During herseparation, during the filming of Dragonwyck, she met a young John F. Kennedy, who was visiting the set. They began a romance that ended the following year, when Kennedy told her he could never marry her because of his politicalambitions. Tierney then reconciled with Cassini, but they divorced on February28, 1952. "Cassini promised in his 1952 divorce from Gene Tierney that hewould write a will leaving both of his daughters half of his fortune".n 1960, Tierney sent Kennedy a note of congratulations on his election victory; shelater admitted that she had voted for Richard Nixon, saying, "I thoughtthat he would make a better president."In 1958, Tierney met Texasoil baron W. Howard Lee, who was married to Hedy Lamarr from 1953 to 1960.Tierney and Lee married in Aspen, Colorado on July 11, 1960, and lived in Houston, Texas.She loved life in Texaswith Lee and became an expert contract bridge player. In 1962, 20thCentury Fox announced Tierney would play the lead role in Return toPeyton Place, but she became pregnant and dropped out of the project. Shelater miscarried. Tierney'sautobiography, Self-Portrait, in which she candidly discussed her life, career and mental illness, was published in 1979.On February17, 1981, Tierney was widowed when Lee died after a long illness.Gene Tierneydied in 1991, shortly before her 71st birthday, of emphysema in Houston, Texas.She had started smoking after a screening of her first movie to lower her voicebecause "I sound like an angry Minnie Mouse." She became a heavysmoker, which contributed to her death. She is interred next to Lee in the Glenwood Cemeteryin Houston, Texas.In 1986, Tierney was honored alongside actor Gregory Peck with the first DonostiaLifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastian FilmFestival Spain for their body of work.For hercontribution to the motion picture industry, Tierney has a star on theHollywood Walk of Fame at 6125 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.Filmography Year Film Role Director Other cast Notes 1940 The Return of Frank James Eleanor Stone Fritz Lang Henry Fonda Technicolor Hudson's Bay Barbra Hall Irving Pichel Paul Muni
Vincent Price 1941 Tobacco Road Ellie Mae Lester John Ford Charles Grapewin
Dana Andrews Belle Starr Belle Starr Irving Cummings Randolph Scott
Dana Andrews Technicolor Sundown Zia Henry Hathaway Bruce Cabot The Shanghai Gesture Victoria Charteris aka
Poppy Smith Josef von Sternberg Walter Huston 1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake Eve John Cromwell Tyrone Power Sepia tone
(sequences) Rings on Her Fingers Susan Miller aka
Linda Worthington Rouben Mamoulian Henry Fonda Thunder Birds Kay Saunders William A. Wellman Preston Foster
John Sutton Technicolor China Girl Miss Young Henry Hathaway George Montgomery 1943 Heaven Can Wait Martha Strabel Van Cleve Ernst Lubitsch Don Ameche Technicolor 1944 Laura Laura Hunt Otto Preminger Dana Andrews
Clifton Webb
Vincent Price 1945 A Bell for Adano Tina Tomasino Henry King John Hodiak Leave Her to Heaven Ellen Brent Harland John M. Stahl Cornel Wilde
Jeanne Crain
Vincent Price Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress
Technicolor 1946 Dragonwyck Miranda Wells Van Ryn Joseph L. Mankiewicz Walter Huston
Vincent Price The Razor's Edge Isabel Bradley Maturin Edmund Goulding Tyrone Power
Anne Baxter
John Payne 1947 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Lucy Muir Joseph L. Mankiewicz Rex Harrison
George Sanders
Edna Best 1948 The Iron Curtain Anne Gouzenko William A. Wellman Dana Andrews That Wonderful Urge Sara Farley Robert B. Sinclair Tyrone Power 1949 Whirlpool Ann Sutton Otto Preminger Richard Conte
José Ferrer 1950 Night and the City Mary Bristol Jules Dassin Richard Widmark Where the Sidewalk Ends Morgan Taylor (Paine) Otto Preminger Dana Andrews 1951 The Mating Season Maggie Carleton McNulty Mitchell Leisen John Lund
Miriam Hopkins
Thelma Ritter On the Riviera Lili Duran Walter Lang Danny Kaye Technicolor The Secret of Convict Lake Marcia Stoddard Michael Gordon Glenn Ford Close to My Heart Midge Seridan William Keighley Ray Milland 1952 Way of a Gaucho Teresa Jacques Tourneur Rory Calhoun Technicolor Plymouth Adventure Dorothy Bradford Clarence Brown Spencer Tracy
Van Johnson
Leo Genn Technicolor 1953 Never Let Me Go Marya Lamarkina Delmer Daves Clark Gable Personal Affair Kay Barlow Anthony Pelissier Leo Genn
Glynis Johns 1954 Black Widow Iris Denver Nunnally Johnson Ginger Rogers CinemaScope
Deluxe color The Egyptian Baketamon Michael Curtiz Jean Simmons
Victor Mature
Edmund Purdom CinemaScope
Deluxe color 1955 The Left Hand of God Anne Scott Edward Dmytryk Humphrey Bogart CinemaScope
Deluxe color 1962 Advise and Consent Dolly Harrison Otto Preminger Henry Fonda
Walter Pidgeon
Franchot Tone Panavision 1963 Toys in the Attic Albertine Prine George Roy Hill Dean Martin Las cuatro noches de la luna llena
aka Four Nights of the Full Moon Sobey Martin Dan Dailey 1964 The Pleasure Seekers Jane Barton Jean Negulesco Ann-Margret CinemaScope
Deluxe color
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