![]() Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland, 1997. The Stars of Hollywood Remembered: Career Biographies of 82 Actors and Actresses of the Golden Era, 1920s-1950s. The popular star suffered well publicized misfortunes and subsequent breakdowns, and her aura of graceful beauty came to signify tragedy.Įllrod, J.G. Offscreen, Tierney's life embraced another incongruity. In seeming contradiction with her inscrutable features, Tierney's image also reflected her Swiss finishing school poise and sophistication, garnering her the cosmopolitan title role in the film noir classic Laura (1944) and that of the love-obsessed femme fatale of Leave Her to Heaven (1945). ![]() ![]() Twentieth Century Fox founder Darryl Zanuck famously proclaimed her, "un-questionably the most beautiful woman in movie history." With high cheekbones and unusually shaped eyes, Tierney, a New Yorker, was considered "exotic." Studios cast her in films that highlighted her mystique like The Shanghai Gesture (1941) and The Egyptian (1954). Her reputation relied on promotion of her distinctive looks and physical elegance. Debuting as a teenage model and budding stage actress, Gene Tierney soon metamorphosed into one of Hollywood's most recognizable movie stars of the 1940s and 1950s. ![]()
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