Gene Tierney (1920-1991) - Best remembered in Laura and Leave her to heaven

FAST FACTS

Birth name: Gene Eliza Tierney
Occupation: Actress
Birth date: Nov. 19, 1920
Birth place: Brooklyn, New York
Death date: Nov. 6, 1991
Death place: Houston, Texas
Burial location: Glenwood Cemetery, Houston

Height: 5 feet 7 inches
Weight: 117 lbs.
Hair color: Reddish-brown
Eye color: Green
Spouse: Oleg Cassini (1941-1952) William Howard Lee (1960-1981)
Children: Antoinette Daria and Christina
Favorite film: "Leave Her to Heaven"
Autobiography: "Self Portrait" (1979)

Did you know?

• Tierney said "Leave Her to Heaven" was "the best role I ever had and my favorite film."
• Tierney is probably best remembered for the classic mystery in which she is supposedly killed, "Laura." She was on the set six days a week before the sun came up. She stayed until 8 or 9 p.m. each night. She made 28 costume changes and almost every close-up was preceded by an hour to two of testing the lights on Tierney's face while she was forced to sit there.
• Her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 6125 Hollywood Boulevard.
• She spoke fluent French.

FILMOGRAPHY:

The return of Frank James 1940, dir: Fritz Lang

Hudson's bay 1941, dir: Irving Pichel

Tobacco road 1941, dir: John Ford

Belle Starr 1941, dir: Irving Cummings

Sundown 1941, dir: Henry Hathaway

The Shanghai gesture 1941, dir: Josef von Sternberg

Son of fury: The story of Benjamin Blake 1942, dir: John Cromwell

Rings on her fingers 1942, dir: Rouben Mamoulian

Thunder birds 1942, dir: William A. Wellman

China girl 1942, dir: Henry Hathaway

Heaven can wait 1943, dir: Ernst Lubitsch

Laura 1944, dir: Otto Preminger

A bell for Adano 1945, dir: Henry King

Leave her to heaven 1945, dir: John M. Stahl

Dragonwyck 1946, dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

The razor's edge 1946, dir: Edmund Goulding

The ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947, dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

The iron curtain 1948, dir: William A. Wellman

That wonderful urge 1948, dir: Robert B. Sinclair

Whirlpool 1949, dir: Otto Preminger

Night and the city 1950, dir: Jules Dassin

Where the sidewalk ends 1950, dir: Otto Preminger

Close to my heart 1951, dir: William Keighley

The mating season 1951, dir: Mitchell Leisen

On the riviera 1951, dir: Walter Lang

The secret of Convict Lake 1951, dir: Michael Gordon

Way of a Gaucho 1952, dir: Jacques Tourneur

Plymouth adventure 1952, Clarence Brown

Never let me go 1953, dir: Delmer Daves

Personal affair 1953, dir: Anthony Pelissier

The Egyptian 1954, dir: Michael Curtiz

Black widow 1954, dir: Nunnally Johnson

The left hand of God 1955, dir: Edward Dmytryk

Advise and consent 1962, dir: Otto Preminger

Toys in the attic 1963, dir: George Roy Hill

The pleasure seakers 1964, dir: Jean Negulesco

Daughter of the mind 1969, dir: Walter Grauman - TV movie

Scruples 1980, dir: Robert Day - TV mini series

QUOTES:

"Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test."

"Where there is hope, there is no despair."

"Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful."


"Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau."


"Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides."