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Gene Tierney
Gene Eliza Tierney 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,…
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entertainment · American actress (1920–1991) · actor · autobiographer · character actor · stage actor · television actor · film actor · also Gene Tierney, Gene Eliza Tierney, Tierney
Born 19 November 1920 · Died 6 November 1991 · Q230555
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I have always needed to believe that my career survived on more than how I looked. I have no deeper meaning to plumb, no point to make about beauty and craziness. A friend once asked a doctor if he thought my life might have been easier, if I might not have needed confining, if I had been less pretty.
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2006· 1 entry
Cassini bequeathed $500,000 in trust to Daria and $1,000,000 to Christina
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1991· 1 entry
Died 1991-11-06.
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1986· 1 entry
Tierney was honored alongside actor Gregory Peck with the first Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain
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1979· 1 entry
“I have always needed to believe that my career survived on more than how I looked. I have no deeper meaning to plumb, no point to make about beauty and craziness. A friend once asked a doctor if he thought my life might have been easier, if I might not have needed confining, if I had been less pretty.”
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1960· 3 entries
In 1960, Tierney sent Kennedy a note of congratulations on his victory in the presidential election.
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Lee and Tierney married in Aspen, Colorado, on July 11, 1960.
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Tierney sent Kennedy a note of congratulations on his victory in the presidential election
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1958· 2 entries
20th Century Fox offered Tierney a lead role in Holiday for Lovers (1959), but the stress upon her proved too great, so only days into production, she dropped out of the film and returned to Menninger, for a time
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Tierney met Texas oil baron W
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1957· 1 entry
In late December 1957, Tierney, at her mother's apartment in Manhattan, stepped onto a ledge 14 stories above ground and remained for about 20 minutes in what was considered a suicide attempt.
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1953· 2 entries
Tierney returned to the U
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Suffered problems with concentration, which affected her film appearances
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1952· 2 entries
Newspapers documented that Tierney was in a romantic relationship with Kirk Douglas
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But remained friends until her death in November 1991
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1946· 1 entry
Tierney and Cassini separated October 20, 1946, and entered into a property settlement agreement on November 10.
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1943· 1 entry
Gave birth to a daughter, Daria, who was deaf and mentally disabled, due to congenital rubella syndrome
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1936· 1 entry
And attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut
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1920· 1 entry
Born 1920-11-19.
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