Gene Tierney

Born: 1920-11-19 in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Died: 1991-11-06

Known For: Acting

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).

Filmography

1991

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Laura Hunt (archive footage) (uncredited)

1987

Biography as Self

1980

Scruples as Harriet Toppingham

1969

Daughter of the Mind as Lenore Constable

1965

The F.B.I. as Faye Simpson

1964

The Pleasure Seekers as Jane Barton

1963

Four Nights of the Full Moon
Toys in the Attic as Albertine Prine

1962

Advise & Consent as Dolly Harrison

1955

The Left Hand of God as Anne 'Scotty' Scott

1954

Black Widow as Iris Denver
The Egyptian as Baketamon

1953

The Oscars as Self
Personal Affair as Kay Barlow
Never Let Me Go as Marya Lamarkina
General Electric Theater as Ellen Galloway

1952

Plymouth Adventure as Dorothy Bradford
Way of a Gaucho as Teresa Chavez

1951

The Secret of Convict Lake as Marcia Stoddard
On the Riviera as Lili Duran
Close to My Heart as Midge Sheridan
The Mating Season as Maggie Carleton

1950

What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
Where the Sidewalk Ends as Morgan Taylor
Whirlpool as Ann Sutton
Night and the City as Mary Bristol
The Costume Designer as Self (archive footage)

1948

The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
That Wonderful Urge as Sara Farley
The Iron Curtain as Anna Gouzenko

1947

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir as Lucy Muir

1946

Dragonwyck as Miranda Wells
The Razor's Edge as Isabel Bradley

1945

Leave Her to Heaven as Ellen Berent Harland
A Bell for Adano as Tina Tomasino

1944

Laura as Laura Hunt

1943

Heaven Can Wait as Martha Strabel Van Cleve

1942

Thunder Birds as Kay Saunders
China Girl as Haoli Young
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Eve
Rings on Her Fingers as Susan Miller / Linda Worthington

1941

Sundown as Graham 'Zia' Fletcher
Tobacco Road as Ellie May Lester
Belle Starr as Belle Starr
The Shanghai Gesture as Victoria Charteris (aka "Poppy Smith")

1940

The Return of Frank James as Eleanor Stone
Hudson's Bay as Barbara Hall