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Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) [1] was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed for her great beauty, she became established as a leading lady . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film Laura (1944), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her ...
The Secret of Convict Lake is a 1951 American Western film directed by Michael Gordon and starring Glenn Ford, Gene Tierney, Ethel Barrymore and Zachary Scott. [2] The film was a critical and commercial success. The story is fiction, based on legends of Convict Lake, located in the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges of northern California.
The woman said she had two years prior, while ill with German measles, skipped quarantine in order to visit the Hollywood Canteen and meet Tierney. [14] Tierney's story was publicised before the novel was written. [citation needed] Tierney described the event in her autobiography 16 years after Christie wrote the novel. [10]
Biographers theorise that Christie used an incident in the real-life of the American film star Gene Tierney as the basis of the plot of The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. [16] In June 1943, while pregnant with her first daughter, Tierney contracted German measles during her only appearance at the Hollywood Canteen. Due to Tierney's illness ...
The Iron Curtain is a 1948 American thriller film starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney, directed by William A. Wellman.It was the first film on the Cold War. [2] The film was based on the memoirs of Igor Gouzenko. [3]
Laura is a 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger.It stars Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, along with Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, and Judith Anderson.
A Bell for Adano is a 1945 American war film directed by Henry King and starring John Hodiak and Gene Tierney. It was adapted from the 1944 novel of the same title by John Hersey, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1945. The story had been staged as a Broadway play in 1944 [3] starring Fredric March.
The Razor's Edge is a 1946 American drama film based on W. Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel of the same name.It stars Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, and Herbert Marshall, with a supporting cast including Lucile Watson, Frank Latimore, and Elsa Lanchester.