Gene Tierney

Born: 1920-11-19

Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) 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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Night and the City

as Mary Bristol
Released: 1950-06-15

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up...

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Laura

as Laura Hunt
Released: 1944-10-11

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

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The Return of Frank James

as Eleanor Stone
Released: 1940-08-10

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

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Heaven Can Wait

as Martha Strabel Van Cleve
Released: 1943-08-05

Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he...

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Where the Sidewalk Ends

as Morgan Taylor
Released: 1950-07-07

A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

as Lucy Muir
Released: 1947-05-25

A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its...

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The Egyptian

as Baketamon
Released: 1954-08-25

In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his...

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Leave Her to Heaven

as Ellen Berent Harland
Released: 1945-12-25

A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous...

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And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2014-02-01

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND...

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Whirlpool

as Ann Sutton
Released: 1950-01-13

The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an...

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Dragonwyck

as Miranda Wells
Released: 1946-04-19

For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin,...

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Advise & Consent

as Dolly Harrison
Released: 1962-06-06

Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert...

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Never Let Me Go

as Marya Lamarkina
Released: 1953-03-18

An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.

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The Shanghai Gesture

as Victoria Charteris (aka "Poppy Smith")
Released: 1941-12-25

A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.

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Tobacco Road

as Ellie May Lester
Released: 1941-02-20

Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their...

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The Razor's Edge

as Isabel Bradley
Released: 1946-11-19

An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the...

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Plymouth Adventure

as Dorothy Bradford
Released: 1952-11-28

During the Mayflower pilgrims' long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America,...

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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

as Eve
Released: 1942-01-29

Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew...

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On the Riviera

as Lili Duran
Released: 1951-04-20

In this fast-paced remake of the Maurice Chevalier vehicle Folies Bergère, talented Danny Kaye...

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The Left Hand of God

as Anne 'Scotty' Scott
Released: 1955-09-02

A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a...

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The Mating Season

as Maggie Carleton
Released: 1951-01-12

Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to...

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Black Widow

as Iris Denver
Released: 1954-10-28

A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.

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The Secret of Convict Lake

as Marcia Stoddard
Released: 1951-07-29

After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of...

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Belle Starr

as Belle Starr
Released: 1941-09-12

After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain...

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Sundown

as Graham 'Zia' Fletcher
Released: 1941-10-31

Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives...

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A Bell for Adano

as Tina Tomasino
Released: 1945-06-21

Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano....

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Hudson's Bay

as Barbara Hall
Released: 1941-01-03

Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire...

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Toys in the Attic

as Albertine Prine
Released: 1963-07-31

Julian Berniers returns from Illinois with his young bride Lily Prine to the family in New...

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The Iron Curtain

as Anna Gouzenko
Released: 1948-06-16

The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana...

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China Girl

as Haoli Young
Released: 1942-12-09

Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early...

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The Costume Designer

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1950-07-13

This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The...

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That Wonderful Urge

as Sara Farley
Released: 1948-11-20

When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an...

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Way of a Gaucho

as Teresa Chavez
Released: 1952-10-16

In 1875 Argentina, after killing a man, a gaucho is sentenced to harsh army duty but he deserts...

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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as Laura Hunt (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1991-10-28

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie...

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Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2017-05-13

Martin Scorsese is among those paying tribute to Gene Tierney, the Academy Award-nominated...

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Close to My Heart

as Midge Sheridan
Released: 1951-10-01

A journalist's wife insists on adopting an abandoned child.

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The Pleasure Seekers

as Jane Barton
Released: 1964-12-25

A trio of gorgeous American tourists hope to find love while vacationing in Spain. Secretary...

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Daughter of the Mind

as Lenore Constable
Released: 1969-12-09

Professor Samuel Hale Constable is a government expert in the field of cybernetics. He and his...

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Rings on Her Fingers

as Susan Miller / Linda Worthington
Released: 1942-03-20

Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the...

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Personal Affair

as Kay Barlow
Released: 1953-10-20

A British girl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she...

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Thunder Birds

as Kay Saunders
Released: 1942-10-28

On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in...

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Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1999-03-26

A&E Biography about life and times of the beautiful actress of the '40s and feature...

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The F.B.I.

as Faye Simpson
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest
First aired: 1950-02-02

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...

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The Oscars

as Self
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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Scruples

as Harriet Toppingham
First aired: 1980-02-25

The title of the bestselling 1978 novel by Judith Krantz is the name of an ultra-chic Bevery...

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General Electric Theater

as Ellen Galloway
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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