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
Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.
The role of a female outlaw was not exactly custom-made for someone recently out of a finishing-school!
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.
I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.
I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.
Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.
The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.
Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.
Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.
What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
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.