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
I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.
I simply did not want my face to be my talent.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.
My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.
The role of a female outlaw was not exactly custom-made for someone recently out of a finishing-school!
I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.
Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.
When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.
The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
Where there is hope, there is no despair.
In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.