Gene Tierney
Biography
Gene Eliza Tierney was an American film and stage actress born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 19, 1920, and she died on November 6, 1991, at the age of 70. Acclaimed as one of the great beauties of her day, she is best remembered for her performance in the title role of Laura in 1944 and her Academy Award-nominated performance in Leave Her to Heaven in 1945. Other notable roles include Martha Strable Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait in 1943, Isabel Bradley Maturin in The Razor's Edge in 1946, Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, Ann Sutton in Whirlpool in 1949, Maggie Carleton McNulty in The Mating Season in 1951, and Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God in 1955.
Career overview
Gene Eliza Tierney was an American film and stage actress born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 19, 1920, and she passed away on November 6, 1991, at the age of seventy. Acclaimed as one of the great beauties of her day, she established a notable career in acting with fifty-one known credits listed in her filmography.
Tierney is best-remembered for her performance in the title role of the 1944 film Laura and for her Academy Award-nominated performance in the 1945 film Leave Her to Heaven. Her other notable roles on screen include playing Martha Strable Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait in 1943, Isabel Bradley Maturin in The Razor's Edge in 1946, and Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947.
Her later film work includes appearances as Ann Sutton in Whirlpool in 1949, Maggie Carleton McNulty in The Mating Season in 1951, and Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God in 1955. Throughout her career, she worked extensively in film and stage productions, leaving a lasting record as a prominent actress of her era.
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- Beautiful Like a Poem (2020) as Self (archive footage)
- Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star (2017) as Self (archive footage)
- Marilyn, dernières séances (2008) as archive footage
- Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait (1999) as Self (archive footage)
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991) as Laura Hunt (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Biography (1987) as Self
- Scruples (1980) as Harriet Toppingham
- Daughter of the Mind (1969) as Lenore Constable
- The F.B.I. (1965) as Faye Simpson
- The Pleasure Seekers (1964) as Jane Barton
- Toys in the Attic (1963) as Albertine Prine
- Four Nights of the Full Moon (1963)
- Advise & Consent (1962) as Dolly Harrison
- The Left Hand of God (1955) as Anne 'Scotty' Scott
- Black Widow (1954) as Iris Denver
- The Egyptian (1954) as Baketamon
- The Oscars (1953) as Self
- General Electric Theater (1953) as Ellen Galloway
- Never Let Me Go (1953) as Marya Lamarkina
- Personal Affair (1953) as Kay Barlow
- Way of a Gaucho (1952) as Teresa Chavez
- Plymouth Adventure (1952) as Dorothy Bradford
- Close to My Heart (1951) as Midge Sheridan
- On the Riviera (1951) as Lili Duran
- The Secret of Convict Lake (1951) as Marcia Stoddard
- The Mating Season (1951) as Maggie Carleton
- What's My Line? (1950) as Self
- Night and the City (1950) as Mary Bristol
- Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) as Morgan Taylor
- The Costume Designer (1950) as Self (archive footage)
- Whirlpool (1950) as Ann Sutton
- The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
- That Wonderful Urge (1948) as Sara Farley
- The Iron Curtain (1948) as Anna Gouzenko
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) as Lucy Muir
- Dragonwyck (1946) as Miranda Wells
- The Razor's Edge (1946) as Isabel Bradley
- A Bell for Adano (1945) as Tina Tomasino
- Leave Her to Heaven (1945) as Ellen Berent Harland
- Laura (1944) as Laura Hunt
- Heaven Can Wait (1943) as Martha Strabel Van Cleve
- Thunder Birds (1942) as Kay Saunders
- China Girl (1942) as Haoli Young
- Rings on Her Fingers (1942) as Susan Miller / Linda Worthington
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) as Eve
- Belle Starr (1941) as Belle Starr
- The Shanghai Gesture (1941) as Victoria Charteris (aka "Poppy Smith")
- Tobacco Road (1941) as Ellie May Lester
- Sundown (1941) as Graham 'Zia' Fletcher
- The Return of Frank James (1940) as Eleanor Stone
- Hudson's Bay (1940) as Barbara Hall