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Gene Tierney was an American actor and autobiographer born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1920. Her professional career spanned from 1938 to 1980, during which she worked as a character actor and stage actor. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Tierney was married to Oleg Cassini and was in an unmarried partnership with John F. Kennedy. She had two children and wrote in English.
Tierney suffered from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and rubella. She died in Houston in 1991 from pulmonary emphysema. Her native language was English, and she is recognized in the Hollywood Walk of Fame collection.
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Brooklyn, New York, USA
Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as one of the great beauties of her day, she is best-remembered for her performance in the title role of Laura (1944) and her Academy Award-nominated performance in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Other notable roles include Martha Strable Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait (1943), Isabel Bradley…
Known for
- Beautiful Like a Poem — Self (archive footage)2020
- Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star — Self (archive footage)2017
- Marilyn, dernières séances — archive footage2008
- Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait — Self (archive footage)1999
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker — Laura Hunt (archive footage) (uncredited)1991
- Biography — Self1987
- Scruples — Harriet Toppingham1980
- Daughter of the Mind — Lenore Constable1969
- The F.B.I. — Faye Simpson1965
- The Pleasure Seekers — Jane Barton1964
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- human
- Given name
- Eliza
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- Houston
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Official website
- www.cmgww.com/stars/tierney
- Image
- Studio publicity Gene Tierney.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- Gene Tierney
- date of birth
- 1920-11-19
- date of death
- 1991-11-06
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actress
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- Gene Tierney
- medical condition
- rubella
- cause of death
- pulmonary emphysema
- name in native language
- Gene Tierney
- start of work period
- 1938-00-00
- end of work period
- 1980-00-00
- unmarried partner
- John F. Kennedy
- writing language
- English language
- birth name
- Gene Eliza Tierney
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American stage and film actress. Tierney was a prominent leading lady during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She starred as Laura Hunt in Otto Preminger's Laura (1944), a film noir classic, and as Ellen Berent in John M. Stahl's Leave Her to Heaven (1945), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Darryl F. Zanuck, co-founder of 20th Century Fox, said Tierney was "unquestionably, the most beautiful woman in movie history."
Tierney was a 20th Century Fox contract player who did much of her work for the studio. She starred in many commercially successful Fox films, including The Return of Frank James (1940; her film debut), Tobacco Road (1941), Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942), Heaven Can Wait (1943), A Bell for Adano (1945), The Razor's Edge (1946), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), The Iron Curtain (1948), Whirlpool and Night and the City (both 1950), The Mating Season (1951), On the Riviera (1951), The Egyptian (1954), The Left Hand of God (1955), and The Pleasure Seekers (1964; her last film role). After her Hollywood career began to decline, Tierney made sporadic appearances on many television shows. Her role in the miniseries Scruples (1980), marked her last work credit.
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