Gene Tierney
Date of Birth:
19 November 1920, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Date of Death:
6 November 1991, Houston, Texas, USA (emphysema)
Birth Name:
Gene Eliza Tierney
Nickname:
The Get Girl
Height:
5' 7" (1.70 m)
Mini Biography:
With prominent cheekbones and the most appealing overbite of her day, her striking good looks helped propel her to stardom. Her best known role is the enigmatic murder victim in Laura (1944). She was also Oscar-nominated for Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Her acting performances were few in the 1950s as she battled a troubled emotional life that included hospitalization and shock treatment for depression.
Spouse:
W. Howard Lee (11 July 1960 - 17 February 1981) (his death)
Oleg Cassini (1 June 1941 - 28 February 1952) (divorced) 2 children
Leave Her to Heaven 
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Writer Richard Harland unhesitatingly marries lovely Ellen Berent. He soon finds his life blighted when tragedies take first his brother then his unborn son from him. He comes to suspect these events are not unconnected with his wife's unreasoning jealousy. This also turns her family from her, and yet another shock awaits them all as Ellen's emotions become uncontrollable.
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Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura, found dead on her apartment floor before the movie starts. McPherson builds a mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her apartment wall. But who would have wanted to kill a girl with whom every man she met seemed to fall in love? To make matters worse, McPherson finds himself falling under her spell too. Then one night, halfway through his investigations, something seriously bizarre happens to make him re-think the whole case.
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