Let's talk about Gene Tierney

LOVED EVERYTHING SHE DID-even “wirlpool” and “blackwidow”. There’s a sweet interview from Mike Douglas show online-shes “down to earth” . Brilliant in “Laura” (Dana Andrews was beautiful-always fantasized about his “SIZE”)

I like her in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" with Rex Harrison and George Sanders (with a young Natalie Wood playing her daughter).

One of the most beautiful actresses that ever lived, and she could actually act too. A screen presence that could not be denied.

Oh yeah-Ghost and MRS MUIR-Wonderful film.

JFK fucked her.

A “Laura” reunion.

Was she gay friendly?

She was batshit insane but she was gorgeous and a great actress.

Beautiful woman

Love this picture

I read her autobiography when I was in high school. It was harrowing! It ended on a chipper note, but I think it went downhill from that final chapter. Such a shame. Such a beauty and seemed like a good person.

Leave Her to Heaven is easily in my top 10 favorite films, and mainly because of her performance in it (that, and the gorgeous cinematography).

Leave Her To Heaven is a great film. The lake scene is still chilling to watch.

She was also one of the most striking women ever.

R13 "I will drown handicapped kids like puppies and you will still love me".

There's a close-up of her face in LHTH when she's talking to Cornel Wilde in their bedroom after she has been nasty to her family that completely mesmerizes me away every time I see the film (which is about once a year). She had the most angelic face, and the contrast between that face and the character's perversion is what makes the movie. Gene Tierney is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.

Love that movie

I love Laura, too

This close-up.

She once stepped out onto a NYC window ledge and was going to jump.

This is my favorite of her films:

She's good in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, too

She had absolutely perfect looks and naturally so too.

She was a favorite of my mom, who loved Leave Her To Heaven, but I find that film too overripe for my tastes.

(I love the drowning scene, though.)

Was she considered for Scarlett O’Hara? Not saying she should have been cast(Ed), just wondered if she was one of the many who tried out.

While she may have been “good” in that movie, she certainly wasn’t the best actress in a leading role that year……..I was.

R25 She was working on the Broadway stage at the time.

Gene is wonderfully campy in "The Shanghai Gesture" as "Poppy Smith", who is lured into the drinking and gambling den of Mother Gin Sling (Onna Munson). Great movie that is over the top camp.

Gene is great. OP repeats the same thread every a year about the Gene and the lake scene. I guess that makes DL cosy.

What does everyone think of her eyes?

[quote] What does everyone think of her eyes?

A tad slanted…a bit Oriental looking.

[quote]What does everyone think of her eyes?

Kim Carnes would never sing a song about them.

R25 No, GWTW was before she landed in Hollywood.

My mom used to tell me about going to see "Leave Her to Heaven" in the theater when she was 18 and how shocked and horrified the audience was when they watched the drowning scene.

She said it was just so unheard of for movies of the time to feature such a sinister, cold-blooded scene, especially one involving the murder of a child at the hands of a stunning beauty like Tierney.

She was a lifelong Republican. Even her shock treatments didn't help.

Being a Republican back then was not an automatic red flag of a mental deficiency like it is today.

The old Eisenhower Republicans were a different universe from the modern Republican Party. You can't compare them at all.

The old fashioned Republicans (AKA "Country Club Republicans") were basically just rich people who didn't want to pay taxes. They weren't the batshit lunatics Republicans are today.

Does anyone know what her views on homosexuality were?

^^^She didn’t go for booze, pills, or the homos, doll.

R35 Grow up.

Elizabeth Taylor's character in The Mirror Crack'd was based on Gene Tierney.

R39 We didn't talk about such things then. Besides, she was probably just concerned with her mental health situation to bother with other people. The Agatha Christie story The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side is based on what happened to Gene. A fan who had rubella hugged Gene when she was pregnant with Daria which accounted for the baby's severe retardation when she was born. Christie used this as an important element in her story.

R41 You first, frau.

Years later the fan told her she broke quarantine to see her. Crazy.

Leave Her to Heaven was my favorite Gene Tierney movie. Although I did like Laura too.

Why didn’t she sock that fan in the nose? No jury would have convicted her.

R38 Not all Republicans were rich people, by a long shot.

Did Gene marry the only straight dress designer in Hollywood?

R8 was the batshit insanity before or after the event mentioned at R43?

How many documentaries are there on her?

'Whirlpool" 1950-she looks amazing, Jose Ferrer is evil but thats art imitating life. Poor Rosie Clooney.

The remake of Leave Her to Heaven with Loni Anderson, Patrick Duffy, and NPH!

I remember watching this.

JFK wanted to marry her, but Joe said no. Gene was a divorced woman.

Are there any pictures of Gene and JFK together?

No photos, but a rather lush retelling of their romance:

Leave Her to Heaven was the highest grossing movie of the 1940s. People were going to see it over and over again. Especially women. I believe it was the first time a true female sociopath was portrayed on film. I congratulate the producers and writers for not trying to humanize her. Unfortunately there was no way she was going to get an Oscar for the role. Just to controversial even though the audience ate it up. If you look at the nominees for that year no one came close to Gene's performance.

Joan Crawford won the Oscar that year.

Fuck she was beautiful and knew how to work the camera

The funny thing about LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN. Ellen Berent is such a twisted monstrous person...but on some level audiences secretly sympathized with her. All she wants to do in bucolic "Back of the Moon" is be alone with and fuck her husband Richard but he has to bring up his disabled brother to Maine and put him in the bedroom next to theirs ...with his bed on the other side of the wall as theirs! Ellen is livid : "The walls are as thin as paper and the acoustics disgustingly perfect!" Then Richard gives Ellen a surprise gift of a family visit! Her look of revulsion when she sees them approaching puts the viewer firmly oh her side (in this case at least)

Even more than the rowboat scene, Ellens revulsion towards about her unborn baby must have really shocked 1940s audiences. "I hate the little beast. I wish it were dead."

Lots of people even today can identify with having a significant other who has a relative they can't stand. And that relative always happens to be around. It's such a pain in the ass to deal with.

r58: In the very early stages of casting, both Joan and Rita Hayworth were briefly considered.

Joan as Ellen Berent would have been the ripest camp imaginable.

The way Ellen hates her family makes her a DL icon. Yeah though as evil as she is I always laugh at her reaction to her family.

Bonnie Cashin's flowing "Greek" dress for Gene in LAURA is timeless - It could be worn today.

But who could carry it off as beautifully as Gene?

Let's change the name of the place from Back Of The Moon to Goldfish Manor.

She was a limited actress. She's not good at all in The Razor's Edge. Had little depth. Sorry, Gene lovers.

sometimes the truth is wicked

This photo for VOGUE (1946) is one of my favorite images of her.

Someone from DL (OP probably) wrote this article:

2. Silk pyjamas are always a good idea

With silk so often swapped for jersey and unsophisticated flannel in modern garments, the art of dressing up for downtime has been all but lost to history. We suggest taking a cue from Ellen’s elegant 1940s nightwear, with monogrammed silk two-pieces, delicate negligées with drawstring puff sleeves, and a long cosy dressing gown – ideally in camel, with a white trim. The day doesn’t stop when the sun goes down, after all; indeed in Ms Berent’s case, it’s clearly just getting started.

4. Go monogram mad

Kay Nelson is credited with designing the costumes for Leave Her to Heaven, but when the time came to shoot, Tierney’s first husband, famed designer Oleg Cassini, couldn’t keep himself from pitching in. Cassini created a custom-made white pantsuit with the initials of Tierney’s character embroidered onto the bodice especially for her role. Names adorn objects and items of clothing to great effect throughout the film, seemingly underscoring the characters’ self-possession, with everything from Ellen’s shiny sleepwear to her sister Ruth’s towels monogrammed in cursive.

5. Dress to kill

There’s a lot to be said for dressing as though every day might be the day you commit a life-altering offence against humanity. Needless to say, Ellen has foresight nailed, and she’s never not prepared for the occasion, whether that means looking icily down through her gold-tinted sunglasses in the now iconic scene in which her sibling begs for her help from the lake, or the baby blue satin mules and matching lace peignoir she dons before casting herself down a flight of stairs to kill her unborn child. Her finesse for dressing to suit the occasion is admirable, even if her behaviour is not. We advocate heavily for the former.

R66, brilliant actress in everything she did

Gene Tierney was a smash on Broadway in "The Male Animal" (1940), but once she went to Hollywood, she never returned to the stage.

R70 I disagree.

R71 Her part was played in the movie version by Joan Leslie.

Note that in R71 she's a little fat. Wikipedia says when she went to Hollywood she was told to lose weight and she "wrote to Harper's Bazaar" requesting a diet to follow, and she followed this diet for the rest of her life (supposedly).

She also claimed that she was always hungry

[quote] She also claimed that she was always hungry

My kinda gal

In her first Broadway play she had no lines. She carried a bucket of water across the stage. She was so beautiful who did the critics write about? The fucking girl carrying the water LOL.

No one has ever been able to explain why her character in LHTH gets so glammed up before hurtling herself down the stairs to abort her child…I don’t get it.

What did she not like about her looks?

R78 In the 1940s, women dressed up for EVERYTHING, including self-induced abortions.

R78 And you claim to be gay?

R78, heaven forbid she's rushed to hospital in her raggedy blue jeans!

R66 You're phenomenally wrong. She's ice cold brilliant in Razor's Edge with shades of Ellen Berent. She should have been nominated.

Source that it was the highest grossing film of the 1940s, R57?

Wiki was my source.

Does anyone think that Jeanne Crain was as beautiful as Gene Tierney?

Jeanne was as beautiful as Gene, but in a more wholesome way.

Jeanne is an interesting one. She liked being an actress and a mother equally. The parts that were written with her in mind, that she turned down because she was always pregnant, are astounding. She would always tell people she liked being pregnant and was a bit lazy. Jeanne had seven kids. She was just into motherhood.

Linda was the lushest Fox actress. Also very much underrated.

Jeanne Crain was beautiful, but she looks plain in LHTH compared to Gene.

Poor Jeanne, her husband used to beat her up.

Big gap with the last baby there - a real Catholic “oops” baby

Sadly, Gene did not age well. By the mid-1950s she looked like she was in her 50s.

I'll take Linda Darnell over her any day.

Did Gene ever have plastic surgery?

I watched LHTH today! It was great! I know I’ve seen it before but it was years and years ago and didn’t really remember anything other than the lake scene. I don’t think I appreciated it way back then.

Never meet your heroes, especially if you need to escape from hospital quarantine with a contagious disease in order to do so

Must we?

R83 Shades of Ellen Berent was what was wrong with it. Isabel isn't evil or a psycho.

Bosley Crowther in the NY Times: "For the role of the girl who adores him for selfish reasons alone, Gene Tierney is spectacularly deficient. Where she might have made a scathing exposé of a parasitic female, she hits only the most childish attitudes."

We paying attention to that old windbag now?

WHIRLPOOL was especially disappointing, considering the level of talent involved.

Gene has entered the 2024 election cycle.

Thanks R66-love Gene-Hated Razors Edge. Apologies all around.

A Linda Darnell thread would be fun. Could we do that? I loved Linda-‘’Forever Amber’’.

Linda Darnell - BRILLIANT in A Letter to Three Wives

R103

Anyone know where this was filmed? Lake in CA?

R103, whoops that above link didn't work. Type in Linda Darnell gorgeous and talented in the search bar

And now it's a Trump thread.

Hey R6 - I was still alive in 1983!

R106 Why can't you use Google?

Bass Lake.

After the original actress -- Peggy Cummins - was replaced, in Forever Amber, Preminger wanted Lana Turner, but Zanuck said they already had Darnell, just change her hair color.

The role of Ellen in "Leave Her to Heaven" was initially offered to Rita Hayworth, but she turned it down. How would Hayworth have fared in that role?

She would have been horrible.

Rita Hayworth was too basically down to earth and likeable.

R66, I'm a huge Gene fan but agree with you. She had a narrow range and an oddly inexpressive style of acting. Wasn't it Richard Schickel who called her 20th Century Fox's greatest somnambulist or something like that?

I want to know who owns the Laura portrait. Did it end up in Debbie Reynolds' collection?

R115 I'm not a huge fan but I do like her. She didn't have a very mobile face. She did have expressive eyes. One of her more interesting portrayals was as the butch character in The Egyptian. It's often forgotten she was even in The Egyptian (which is also pretty much forgotten) because Jean Simmons had the bigger female role (not to mention Bella Darvi!).

Danny! I'm going to do a dance number in the canoe while you drown!

At 1:46.50

It was Kim Novak and Alan Ladd who Richard Schickel dubbed as The Great Somnambulists, r115.

I always thought the critics loved Gene. Her choices for roles were spot on until a few misfires later in her career. But that happens when you have to take what they offer. The only Gene movie that I really HATE is Tobacco Row. It's almost as bad ad Iron fucking Weed.

Tobacco ROAD

That one was pretty bad too.

Tierney struggled for years with episodes of manic depression. In 1943, she gave birth to a daughter, Daria, who was deaf and mentally disabled due to congenital rubella syndrome. In 1953, she suffered problems with concentration, which affected her film appearances. She dropped out of Mogambo and was replaced by Grace Kelly. While playing Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God (1955), opposite Humphrey Bogart, Tierney became ill. Bogart's sister Frances (known as Pat) had suffered from mental illness, so he showed Tierney great sympathy, feeding her lines during the production and encouraging her to seek help.

Tierney consulted a psychiatrist and was admitted to Harkness Pavilion in New York. Later, she went to the Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut. After some 27 shock treatments, intended to alleviate severe depression, Tierney fled the facility, but was caught and returned. She later became an outspoken opponent of shock treatment therapy, claiming it had destroyed significant portions of her memory.

In late December 1957, Tierney, from her mother's apartment in Manhattan, stepped onto a ledge 14 stories above ground and remained for about 20 minutes in what was considered a suicide attempt. Police were called, and afterwards, Tierney's family arranged for her to be admitted to the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. The following year, after treatment for depression, she was discharged. Afterwards, she worked as a sales girl in a local dress shop with hopes of integrating back into society, but she was recognized by a customer, resulting in sensational newspaper headlines.

She was one fucked up lady

Jack Kennedy fucked her like 75 times.

That took 2 whole hours out of her life!

Or so I heard from a fairly reliable source.

R97 Whether she was meant to be evil or not, she makes the movie interesting.

The most beautiful movie. There is something about technicolor.

I've just found out that there are at least 3 Gene Tierney documentaries. :

A&E Biography E!'s Mysteries And Scandals A Forgotten Star

If there are any more, please let me know!

R129, I forgot commas after Biography and Scandals.

I remember when she wrote her autobiography, ABC wanted to make a tv movie about it…Jaclyn Smith’s name was tossed around and thank goodness nothing happened.

I can't think of anyone with the looks or innate glamour who could play her. She was brave talking about her mental illness long before it was fashionable.

IMDB says that Shannen Doherty looks like her.

I talked about my mental illness publicly, too, back then, r132. I even wrote an article about my nervous breakdown for McCall's Magazine.

Jeeeez, r124, everything but the bloodhounds nippin' at her rear end....

But Viv you were just a minor TV star.

R135 SNAPPIN', not nippin'.

Who were Gene's favorite celebrities?

She had a face for hats. Remember that the next time you watch Laura.

R138, Gene wrote that Ava Gardner was beautiful and a great actress. She admired Rita Hayworth, too. She said Humphrey Bogart was very kind to her when they co-starred in "The Left Hand of God." She was struggling from her mental illness. Her autobiography is very compelling.

Here's the documentary Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star

Gene's screen test. Jesus she's gorgeous. I know there are many actresses just as pretty. Maybe a few even prettier. But the camera didn't love them like it the camera loved Gene.

R142, who do you think were/are the best-looking women ever?

Well number one for years has always been Gene. That's a matter of taste though. There are so many beautiful actresses. Joan Crawford, when she was very young, before she became a grotesque parody of herself was up there. A soap actress, Taylor Miller. A young Linda Evans. Ava Gardner of course. Hedy Lamar no doubt. The list could go on and on.

R86, Jeanne Crain, with her pinched and upturned nose always looked snooty to me. Or that she smelled something bad.

Joan Crawford never looked like a great beauty to me, regardless of her age.

Crawford was extremely photogenic, according to George Hurrell, who clearly knew what he was talking about. But her looks deteriorated in the fifties because of the booze and the boys and girls.

and the fear.

Joan Crawford was gorgeous in the 1930s but the booze, cigs and emotional issues made her quite hard-looking later on.

Gene had a pronounced overbite which you can see in the screen-test in r142's post .

When she signed her first Fox contract it specified that Fox would not have it "corrected". I think it only adds to her beauty.

an imperfection on a great beauty always makes them more beautiful. Gene knew what her overbite did.

I wonder why Fox didn't want her teeth changed.

It never bothered me, I just have always wondered why they didn't want to change it.

I'm sorry, but everyone who thinks "Republicans weren't as bad back then" is just plain ignorant. Ever heard of McCarthyism?

R153 is the one everyone tries to avoid at parties. Parties that it crashes as it's never invited anywhere

r153 you dolt you know nothing about history. The old timey Eisenhower Republicans were a world away from modern MAGA Republicans.

R154 and R155 are embarrassed their ignorance was exposed. How stupid do you have to be to romanticize Eisenhower and Republicanism? Do some research, assholes.

r156 the old style Republicans were not the raving lunatics Republicans are today. They were fiscal conservatives who didn't really bother with social issues. Reagan changed everything.

"Country Club Republican" also known as a "Country Club Conservative" or "Establishment Republican" is an expression employed, usually pejoratively, to describe certain members of the Republican Party in the United States. Some of the characteristics attributed to country club Republicans are higher than average income or inherited wealth, hailing from politically or socially prominent families, fiscally conservative opinions but with liberal, moderate or indifferent views on social issues such as abortion, censorship, and gay rights. They are more likely to have attended prestigious colleges and universities than other Republican Party members.

Gene Tierney was one of these.

Eisenhower who literally saved the west? LOL

LINCOLN WAS MAGA SCUM!

In her heyday in Hollywood she was nicknamed "the get girl". Everyone wanted her for just about every role.

Here is the A&E Biography of Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait

For me, there was no one more beautiful than Vivien Leigh in the late 30s and early 40s.

The true beauties of Golden Age Hollywood were primarily brunettes.

Why isn't Jane Russell ever talked about as a great beauty?

Good question r165, why isn’t she?

Jane Russell was kind of dykey looking.

I didn't want to say R167. She just seemed so hard.

What brand of mayonnaise do we think Gene used? I believe it was Hellmans but I’ve got flak about that over the years.

Jane was a bible thumping harpy.

Leave Her to Heaven is the most MARY movie title ever.

Vivien and Gene, two beautiful, but damaged, brunettes.

WOW! Just watched that A&E bio of Gene at r162. Quite moving and insightful, not at all schlocky. All the more so to have the participation of ex Oleg Cassini (rat though he may have been) and her sister and younger daughter.

Thanks for posting.

Her mother wasn't the slightest interested but when she would go with a young Gene to her auditions or screen tests many times they wanted to test her mom too. Gene and her mother were devoted to each other in a healthy way. Gene was always clear about that.

R173, yep it's a good documentary. I remember watching it on A&E years ago and was glad to find it online.

It's also on the LAURA DVD.

I unfortunately can't find the E!'s Mysteries And Scandals online at the moment. It used to be on YouTube.

I'm so tired of the R153's of this world. They see everything in 2 colors and smell only shit.

I'd seen portions of LHTH before, but never the entire film until last night (inspired by this thread.) I thought the pacing was off, but what really took me out of the movie was the wooden acting and absolute charisma-free void quality of Cornell Wilde. I couldn't accept for a moment that not one, but two, beautiful women were obsessed with this piece of stale toast, even if one of the women was supposed to be mentally disturbed. Certainly not with young Vincent Price standing right there!

But it was a gorgeous looking film. And Danny and all the relations really WERE deeply irritating -- my sympathies would lie with Ellen if not for her deranged taste in men.

Well, Sylvia, nobody ever said you were a cinephile.

When was she at her most beautiful?

Around the time of Laura, Leave Her to Heaven and Mrs. Muir.

Cornell played it perfectly. More so than Gene. He was more self obsessed, but in a different way than Ellen was. If they had a more dynamic character that was on the ball with his marriage and didn't let their extended family in he would have seen through Ellen.

Watching the documentary and seeing her progress almost year by year, Gene already showed signs of aging by the time she was 30. The narrator Peter Graves kept citing her age with each film she made, and I was shocked when he said 29 because she looked 10 years older. At the end of the doc it was said that she was a heavy smoker (she originally started smoking around 20 to lower her voice) and she ultimately died of emphysema at the age of 70 (though she looked 85). Those late 40s and early 50s Jane Wyman hairstyles didn't help Gene's looks either.

[quote] Those late 40s and early 50s Jane Wyman hairstyles didn't help Gene's looks either.

Don't remind me.

According to imdb trivia:

[quote]For the proposal scene, Cornel Wilde had trouble reacting convincingly to Gene Tierney's advances, but each time they did a take the crew was so impressed, they whistled at her. Finally, John M. Stahl said to Wilde, "They all seem to understand how the scene should be played. Why can't you?"

What was he made of stone?

Who were her LGBT friends?

I'd go to hell for Cornel.

R187, me too

Gene Tierney is mentioned briefly in this documentary called The Love Goddesses from 1965. :

Ike's VP was Nixon. Nixon red-baited many good people, especially if he ran against them (Helen Gahagan Douglas, who he called "The Pink Lady." "Pink right down to her underwear.")

Gene had a fling with Aly Kahn after his divorce from Rita Hayworth in 1953. Supposedly Aly said Gene was the hottest sex he had - Rita was a cold fish who did not enjoy sex much (no surprise as she was probably molested by her father)

Oh...Gene was the ONLY Hollywood star invited to the Besteigui ball in Venice.

(Unsure she was invited to Truman Capote's "black-and-white" ball in 1966. DL Goddess Arlene Francis was)

Miss Arlene Francis never missed a good party, and she always made sure there was plety of Vat 69 scotch.

Was it insinuated that Ellen was fucking her father?

R192 Was Gene Tierney there?

Yes R78 Cornel Wilde was bafflingly popular for a few years there. Dana Andrews would have been a much better choice

Sorry, R178

My mom liked Cornel Wilde. I thought he was perfect casting for this film, actually. I guess some people would prefer...Vincent Price?

Cornel was okay. THE NAKED PREY was a great movie.

She never lost her Wis-cahn-son accent.

Who were her idols growing up?

R193 Not exactly but their relationship was problematic. Her possessiveness asphyxiated him and drove him to his death (how is never explained).

Cornel was beautiful-nuff sayd.

I’ve never done it before but given the opportunity-I would eat shit out of Wilde’s ass.

Great picture of her

Arlene Frances-Brilliant. A movie should be made of her life and times.

She ROCKED those sunglasses.

for r206

I also like her as a native island girl opposite Tyrone Power in SON OF FURY - that has the bonus of the beautiful Frances Farmer in a supporting role.

The story was told in Houston that after her husband (Howard Lee, formerly married to Hedy LaMarr) died.....Gene would have bad mornings walking around the neighborhood while wearing her nightgown, knocking on neighbors' doors and asking if they had seen him......

R208, so sad

A 1985 interview with Gene. She was 65 but looks like a modern 85.

R210, she looks very young there

Gene Tierney was Robert Osbourne's favorite...

Robert Osborne is the correct spelling***

--The Spelling Troll

R214 Hey, R213 can spell it however they want.

They actually can, they're not in at school right now.

In, at, whatever.

Thanks Nancy-been trying to quash that ‘oh dear’’ for years.

Well I found out what happened to the Laura portrait. Gene's mother tried to get it for herself. She was told that it wasn't really a portrait. It was a picture of Gene with paint applied on top. They went through about four of them. The paint doesn't stay on too long. Thus no portrait, since there never really was one, exists.

There was real Portrait of Jennie, though, painted by Robert Brackman for that movie.

I wish that Gene would have married JFK.

R221, and deprive the world of Jackie?? Heavens no!

Which movies did she regret not doing?

Her biggest regret was ‘’Mommy Dearest’’ as was mine.

Gene's 50 load weekend.

I find some 50s and 60s actresses from international cinema and American, to have been more beautiful than the golden age ones. They were photographed more naturally so it's a different register of beauty. from Grace Kelly and Audrey and Marilyn all the way to Faye in the late 60s. All those French and Italian beauties.

I have agreed that there were many more beautiful than Gene. But Gene had that something that can't be defined. The camera loved every angle of her.

Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe and Faye Dunaway were NOT more beautiful than Gene Tierney.

R228, who all do you think was more beautiful?

R228 I'm not even a big fan of her but I'd say no one was more beautiful. She had unique beauty. But I never considered Audrey Hepburn a great beauty. Monroe was pretty, and sexy. They both wore significant amounts of makeup to look better, and Monroe had plastic surgery. Faye, well, I guess I just never thought of her as particularly beautiful.

Faye had a moment in the late '60s early '70s but she looked horrible by the time of Eyes of Laura Mars

Well beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think Capucine, Monica Vitti and Silvana Mangano were more beautiful than Gene Tierney but they aren't at all the same type of women.

Some people think a young Bonnie Franklin is more beautiful than Gene Tierney, so...

I have always maintained that the camera loves crazy. It picks up those subtle neurotic changes on a face and blows them up to CinemaScope proportions and it's dazzling to the viewer. Gene, Marilyn, Faye, Marlon, Jimmy, Monty... and the list goes on.

I'm not sure it's the camera, it's more like neurotic people tend to be interesting and have magnetism. But didn't Gene mainly suffer from depression? (After the birth of her daughter.)

I think she deserved an Oscar nomination for “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.” A lovely performance that blends romanticism and witty repartee.

The biggest revelation from Laura and Leave Her to Heaven was the fact that Vincent Price was once a real actor. Not just the crazy guy who wanted to finger bang the Brady boys.

R237, so true

Breathtaking

Funny how they landed that plane in Utah, what with so many rhinos and giraffes close by 😵‍💫

Thank you, you fuckers! Now I'm forced to watch leave Her to Heaven (free on youtube) instead of finishing this report that's due tomorrow.

You'll be all the better for it.

What does everyone think of her eyes?

Here's the late, great Robert Osborne, introducing the movie on TCM.

R244, yep Gene was his favorite actress

Great song about Leave Her To Heaven

Another documentary I found:

Here's one more documentary I found.

I'm only aware of 5 Gene Tierney documentaries.

Any others?

What year was this picture taken?

From the hairstyle I'd say around '51.

Looking beautiful

Perfect profile