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Gene Tierney: Roles
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"Gene Tierney: A Biography" is one of the best biographies written on a classic Hollywood star in recent memory. It gives a well rounded viewpoint of Tierney's somewhat turbulent, roller coaster life and completes the picture with a wonderful selection of photos (many of them candid), that shows us why Tierney was once quoted as "the unluckiest lucky girl in the world." The photos alone are worth the price of the book.
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For six years off and on (1954-1960), Gene Tierney was under psychiatric care at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kans. By the time she returned to Hollywood, she was 39 and no longer in demand. Three times she planned a comeback, but twice she became ill and had to turn down the roles. Her last feature film was in 1965.
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Excellent 1840s gothic melodrama stars Gene Tierney as a farm girl who goes off to live with a mysterious landowner (Vincent Price) who plans on killing his wife in order to marry her. Also starring Walter Huston and Jessica Tandy in an early role. Excellent quality.
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The lead in MGM's National Velvet was offered her, but when the project was delayed Tierney signed with Fox, where in 1940 she made her film debut opposite Henry Fonda in the Fritz Lang Western The Return of Frank James. A small role in Hudson's Bay followed before Tierney essayed her first major role in John Ford's 1940 drama Tobacco Road.
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