Gene Tierney
Gene Tierney
Gene Eliza Tierney was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as a great beauty, she became established as a leading lady. Tierney was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film Laura, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth19 November 1920
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.
Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.
What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.
The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.
Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.