Gene Tierney
Birthday: 1920-11-19
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Biography: Gene Eliza Tierney was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as one of the great beauties of her day, she is best-remembered for her performance in the title role of Laura (1944) and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Other notable roles include Martha Strable Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait (1943), Isabel Bradley Maturin in The Razor's Edge (1946), Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Ann Sutton in Whirlpool (1949), Maggie Carleton McNulty in The Mating Season (1951) and Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God (1955).
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Laura
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating....
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relatio...
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The Egyptian
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his frien...
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Dragonwyck
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be go...
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The Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrew...
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The Secret of Convict Lake
After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the...
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Whirlpool
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habi...
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Daughter of the Mind
Professor Samuel Hale Constable is a government expert in the field of cybernetics. He and his wheel...
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On the Riviera
In this fast-paced remake of the Maurice Chevalier vehicle Folies Bergère, talented Danny Kaye plays...
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The Shanghai Gesture
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint....
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The Return of Frank James
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords....
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Ben...
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Black Widow
When a young stage hopeful is found dead, suspicion falls on her mentor, a successful Broadway produ...
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The Left Hand of God
A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Ca...
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Advise & Consent
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffin...
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop....
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Leave Her to Heaven
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy i...
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Tobacco Road
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors ...
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Heaven Can Wait
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is ...
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Night and the City
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with ...
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China Girl
Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage ...
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Belle Starr
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam...
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Plymouth Adventure
During the Mayflower pilgrims' long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America, Captai...
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The Razor's Edge
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. Bu...
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Sundown
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and en...
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The Pleasure Seekers
A trio of gorgeous American tourists hope to find love while vacationing in Spain. Secretary Maggie ...
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Rings on Her Fingers
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful cl...
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Thunder Birds
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World...
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Personal Affair
A schoolgirl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves...
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Hudson's Bay
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hu...
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The Mating Season
Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her so...
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Toys in the Attic
Julian Berniers returns from Illinois with his young bride Lily Prine to the family in New Orleans. ...
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That Wonderful Urge
When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an investiga...
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A Bell for Adano
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He ha...
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Way of a Gaucho
In 1875 Argentina, after killing a man, a gaucho is sentenced to harsh army duty but he deserts the ...
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Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait
A&E Biography about life and times of the beautiful actress of the '40s and feature interview of...
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Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star
Martin Scorsese is among those paying tribute to Gene Tierney, the Academy Award-nominated American ...
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The Costume Designer
This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The cost...
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director O...
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Four Nights of the Full Moon
A popular singer learns that an old gypsy legend about cats may not be simple superstition....
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Beautiful Like a Poem
I have a lot of interest and respect for classic cinema. I tried to make a film with at least 20 por...
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