Laura
1944
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Mar 12, 2024 · What were the main symptoms of Gene Tierney's mental illness? Severe anxiety, depression, and insomnia. What treatment did Gene Tierney receive for her mental illness? Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and psychotherapy. How did Gene Tierney's mental illness affect her career?
Apr 17, 2024 · It's telling that it deploys Tierney's elegant looks as an exterior for a psychotic mind. While her character is perfectly made-up and seemingly in control, her mind seems ravaged by...
Nov 27, 2018 · One possible reason for Bogie’s empathy: One of his younger sisters also grappled with mental illness. Tierney began seeing a psychiatrist and entered the Harkness Pavilion in New York, and later, the Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut. She would undergo twenty-seven electroshock treatments, in an effort to treat her severe depression.
Feb 24, 2015 · Whatever the reason, mental illness dogged her throughout the fifties, resulting in Gene undergoing a total of twenty electric shock treatments that seriously damaged her memory. On Christmas Day 1957 in Topeka, Kansas, police narrowly managed to talk her down from the ledge of a high-rise building.
Mar 14, 2024 · By Dan Callahan. Personal Affair (1953) Laura is more talked about than seen in the first quarter of the 1944 film that bears her name. She has supposedly been murdered, blown away by a shotgun at close range – the kind of blast that destroys a beautiful face beyond all recognition.
Aug 14, 2010 · In her autobiography, Self Portrait, Gene talks at length about her struggle with mental illness, suicide attempts, and what it was like for a patient to receive psychiatric care in mental hospitals in the 1950s.
Nov 19, 2020 · Despite the stigma around mental health during this time, Tierney talked openly about her struggles with manic depression in the press and her 1979 autobiography. Henry Fonda and Tierney in Rings on Her Fingers. Tierney with Danny Kaye in On the Riviera. Don Ameche and Tierney in Heaven Can Wait.
