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Tierney made her film debut at age 20 in the Fritz Lang western The Return of Frank James, and her star ascended rapidly with the success of Laura and also the 1945 film Leave Her To Heaven, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She married for the first time in 1941, eloping with future fashion star Oleg Cassini, who ...
Tierney, Gene (1920–1991)American actress who received an Oscar nomination for her performance in Leave Her to Heaven. Name variations: Gene Lee. Born Gene Eliza Tierney on November 20 (one respected source cites the 19th), 1920, in Brooklyn, New York; died of emphysema in Houston, Texas, on November 6, 1991; one of three children (two girls and a boy) of Howard Tierney (an insurance broker ...
Actress: Laura. With prominent cheekbones, luminous skin and the most crystalline green eyes of her day, Gene Tierney's striking good looks helped propel her to stardom. Her best known role is the enigmatic murder victim in Laura (1944). She was also Oscar-nominated for Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Her acting performances were few in the 1950s ...
Nov 6, 1991 · Tierney was born on November 19, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Howard Sherwood Tierney and Belle Lavina Taylor. The family owned a brownstone at 900 St. Mark's Avenue, which was at the time a very fashionable street in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. She was named after a beloved uncle, who died young. She had an elder brother, Howard Sherwood “Butch” Tierney, Jr ...
Nov 8, 1991 · By From News Services. November 7, 1991 at 7:00 p.m. EST. Gene Tierney, 70, the Hollywood actress who played the enigmatic victim in the murder mystery "Laura" and was nominated for an Academy ...
Maura Tierney. Actress: ER. On the viewing horizon since the late 1980s, actress Maura Tierney has been a steady product of independent features, some hits and some misses, for close to a decade and a half. An odd and compelling beauty, she came from an upscale Bostonian family and was raised in the Hyde Park district. Born February 3, 1965, the eldest child of three of Pat, a real estate ...
Mar 8, 2023 · Wikimedia Commons. Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920–November 6, 1991), an A-list actress from the 1940s, often seemed to be walking on a tightrope that divided the expectations of her parents and the public from her own dreams and desires. By her own admission, she lived a sheltered life, and it is possible that this wall of seclusion ...
