Gene Tierney
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| Known for: |
Laura, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Heaven Can Wait |
| Birth name: |
Gene Eliza Tierney |
| Birthday: |
19 November 1920,
Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Height: |
5' 7" (1.70 m) |
| Available Photos |
95 |
| Wallpapers |
1 |
Trivia
Her first daughter was born mentally retarded because Gene had contracted measles during a U.S.O. tour. This served as the uncredited inspiration for the plot of the 1980
Agatha Christie movie
The Mirror Crack'd.
Interred at Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Texas, USA.
During her first film she discovered that her voice was too high and it was suggested that she take up smoking to lower her voice. It worked, but she eventually died of emphysema.
Two daughters, Daria and Christina.
Measurements: 35B-25-36 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Was represented by the John Robert Powers Agency as a fashion model in the 1930s.
Darryl F. Zanuck, founder of 20th Century Fox, said she was unquestionably the most beautiful woman in movie history.
Howard Hughes provided the funds for her retarded daughter's medical care.
Second husband, Howard Lee, was originally married to
Hedy Lamarr before he married Tierney.
Had her share of love affairs during her Hollywood reign, including a notorious one with
John F. Kennedy, whom she met while filming
Dragonwyck. Kennedy broke it up because of his political aspirations. She also had dalliances with
Tyrone Power during production of
The Razor's Edge and with
Prince Aly Khan in the early 1950s.
MGM offered her the lead in
National Velvet but when the production was delayed, she instead signed with Fox.
Received extensive shock treatment in the 1950s while battling her mental instability.
Tierney was in the throes of suicidal depression and was admitted to the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, on Christmas Day in 1957, after police talked her down from a building ledge. She was released from Menningers the following year.
Fox offered Gene a lead role in
Holiday for Lovers following her rehabilitation therapy. However, the stress proved too great and she was forced to leave the production.
Spoke fluent French.
Discovered she was expecting daughter Daria while filming
Heaven Can Wait. Began filming
Laura, after returning from her maternity leave.
Younger daughter, Christina "Tina" Cassini, was born on her 28th birthday, 19th November 1948.
Gave her name as "Gene Eliza Taylor Tierney" upon her marriage to
Oleg Cassini in Las Vegas.
Daughter, Antoinette Daria Cassini, was born in Washington, D.C., on 15th October 1943.
Ex-sister-in-law of
Igor Cassini.
She appeared in five films with
Dana Andrews:
Tobacco Road,
Belle Starr,
Laura,
The Iron Curtain and
Where the Sidewalk Ends.
When Gene saw herself on screen for the first time, she was horrified by her voice ("I sounded like an angry Minnie Mouse"). She began smoking to lower her voice, but it came at a great price - she died of emphysema.
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