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Gene Tierney

American actress (1920-1991) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 70

Gene Tierney was an American stage and film actress. Tierney was a prominent leading lady during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Gene Tierney is read about 2,736 times a day, in 51 languages.

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A life in dates

1991Died6 November 1991Preminger: Anatomy of a FilmmakerFilm, 1991Laura Hunt (archive footage) (uncredited)1987BiographySeries1980ScruplesSeries, Harriet Toppingham1969Daughter of the MindFilm, Lenore Constable1965The F.B.I.Series, Faye Simpson1963Toys in the AtticFilm, Albertine Prine1962Advise & ConsentFilm, Dolly Harrison1954Black WidowFilm, Iris Denver1953General Electric TheaterSeries, Ellen GallowayThe OscarsSeries, 19531952Plymouth AdventureFilm, Dorothy Bradford1951Close to My HeartFilm, Midge Sheridan1950What's My Line?Series1948The Ed Sullivan ShowSeriesThat Wonderful UrgeFilm, 1948Sara Farley1946DragonwyckFilm, Miranda Wells1945A Bell for AdanoFilm, Tina Tomasino1943Heaven Can WaitFilm, Martha Strabel Van Cleve1942China GirlFilm, Haoli Young1940Hudson's BayFilm, Barbara Hall1920Born19 November 1920

People around Gene

  • Laura 1944
  • Night and the City 1950
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947
  • Leave Her to Heaven 1945
  • Advise & Consent 1962

Also in Deutsch

Filmography 40

51 credits on file

Television 7

Awards

Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

About this person

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, said Tierney was "unquestionably, the most beautiful woman in movie history."

Country
United States
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1920 to 1991 · aged 70