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Gene Tierney (1920–1991) was an American actress, stage actor, character actor, and autobiographer. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she began her work period in 1938 and continued until 1980. Tierney was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was married to Oleg Cassini and had two children.
Tierney’s medical history included bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and rubella. She died in Houston from pulmonary emphysema. Her written works include *Whole Earth Justice* and *Self-portrait*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Whole Earth Justice
- Self-portrait
- Self-portrait
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Film & TV
Acting · 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
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1920
- Active to
- 1991
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 7
- Total plays
- 31
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 for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Gene+Tierney">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,776x
- The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,808x
- CheckM: assessing the quality of microbial genomes recovered from isolates, single cells, and metagenomes
· 2015 · cited 11,998x
- Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics
· 2004 · cited 10,286x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,224x
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Quotes
- “Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need still to be useful, even though the parts get fewer.”
- “The word "actress" has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.”
- “Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.”
- “As long as I was playing someone else, I was fine. When I had to be myself, my problems began.”
- “I learned that carrying on while you're broken is not the answer. I tried to work harder and harder, thinking that work would cure everything. All it did was make things worse.”
- “I traveled in a world that once was—Hollywood of the war and immediate postwar years. And I existed in a world that never is—the prison of the mind. If what I have learned from these experiences can be summed up in one sentence, it would be this: life is not a movie. But I do not make that point in a sad or regretful way. I can only wonder, if my life had been a movie, would a director have cast Gene Tierney to play the part? The bitter with the sweet makes for a better part.”
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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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