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Gene Tierney

Gene Tierney

Birthday: 1920-11-19 | Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA

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).

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1964
The Pleasure Seekers

as    Jane Barton

1963
Toys in the Attic

as    Albertine Prine

1962
Advise & Consent

as    Dolly Harrison

1954
The Egyptian

as    Baketamon

1954
Black Widow

as    Iris Denver

1954
Personal Affair

as    Kay Barlow

1953
Never Let Me Go

as    Marya Lamarkina

1952
Plymouth Adventure

as    Dorothy Bradford

1951
On the Riviera

as    Lili Duran

1951
The Secret of Convict Lake

as    Marcia Stoddard

1950
Whirlpool

as    Ann Sutton

1950
Night and the City

as    Mary Bristol

1950
Where the Sidewalk Ends

as    Morgan Taylor

1948
The Iron Curtain

as    Anna Gouzenko

1948
That Wonderful Urge

as    Sara Farley

1947
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

as    Lucy Muir

1946
The Razor's Edge

as    Isabel Bradley

1946
Dragonwyck

as    Miranda Wells

1943
Heaven Can Wait

as    Martha Strabel Van Cleve

1942
China Girl

as    Haoli Young

1942
Thunder Birds

as    Kay Saunders

1941
Hudson's Bay

as    Barbara Hall

1941
Belle Starr

as    Belle Starr

1941
Tobacco Road

as    Ellie May Lester

1941
Sundown

as    Graham 'Zia' Fletcher

1941
The Shanghai Gesture

as    Victoria Charteris (aka "Poppy Smith")

1940
The Return of Frank James

as    Eleanor Stone