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Gene Tierney was one of the great beauties of classic Hollywood and an actress of somewhat underrated ability. She was born into a society family on November 19, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York. Her father, Howard, was a successful insurance broker. He and his wife Belle were extraordinarily attractive and Gene, her brother and sister all inherited their good looks.
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Michelle Vogel's long-awaited book about the life of Gene Tierney is a monumental disappointment, both as a biography and as a reference guide to the actress' distinguished forty-year career on stage, screen, radio, and television. In terms of recounting the story of Tierney's turbulent life, there's very little new material here for readers familiar with the existing Tierney literature, and unfortunately, the author offers few fresh insights into the actress' personality. Most of the book simply recounts events and conversations already covered in Tierney's 1979 autobiography; a perusal of the Bibliography ... discloses that the author included many old movie fan magazine articles among her sources.
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Ms. Tierney went on to attend the Circle in the Square theatre school at New York University, but ended up six credits short of graduation. During this time, she met filmmaker Richard Shepard, with whom she would become close friends with and appear in several of his writing/directing works: The Linguini Incident (her big screen debut), Mercy, Oxygen, and the upcoming Mexico City (with a voice cameo). She ... reads his scripts long before they are produced. During her years at NYU, she performed in several plays, including Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Baby With the Bathwater, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Talking With, and Food. For a period of time, Maura lived in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, at one point selling t-shirts door-to-door in college dorms. She eventually relocated to Los Angeles, where she landed an agent.
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During 1953, Tierney's mental health problems were becoming harder for her to hide; 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's long string of personal troubles finally took their toll. She said that "Bogey could tell that I was mentally unstable." During the production, he fed Tierney her lines, and encouraged her to seek help. Worried about her mental health, she consulted a psychiatrist, and was admitted to Harkness Pavilion in New York. Later, she went to the The Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Born on Nov. 20, 1920, to wealthy Brooklyn, New Yorkers, Gene was a true beauty. She was blessed with full heart-shaped lips, high cheek bones, and extraordinary green eyes. Combined with this natural beauty, she had a poise and grace often likened to that of a cat. She emanated an allure that singled her out from others. When she went to Hollywood as a sightseer, out of the blue she was offered not only a screen test but ... a contract. It happened effortlessly.
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In 1957, Tierney was seen by a neighbor as she was about to jump from a ledge. The police were called, and she was admitted to the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas on December 25. She was released from Menninger the following year, after a treatment that included, in its final stages, working as a sales girl in a large department store (where she was recognized by a customer, resulting in sensational newspaper headlines).
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