Remembering Gene Tierney on her birthday 📷
Apparently the painting of Tierney in Laura was an air-brushed photograph by Frank Polony. I can't think of a more impressive movie portrait. Peak art direction & set decoration, & don't forget the sitter!
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A scene from Personal Affair, 1953 📞
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For Gene Tierney's birthday, this Vandamm photograph from the @nypl digital collection
Gene Tierney as Patricia Stanley and Elliott Nugent as Tommy Turner in "The Male Animal", 1940
And from the same show, William Auerbach-Levy's drawing of Ivan Simpson as Dean Frederick Damon, Gene Tierney as Patricia Stanley and Elliott Nugent as Tommy Turner
"The Male Animal", 1940
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Otto Preminger directs Gene Tierney & Charles Laughton in Advise & Consent, 1962
Two still photographers on the set: Al St. Hilaire & Josh Weiner.
A fascinating process shot: an intense dynamic between Preminger & Tierney, under the knowing gaze of Laughton.
Was there ever a more perfect subject for the full-blown glamour of the Hollywood Studio portrait?
George Hurrell took this shot of Gene Tierney in 1944.
When Philippe Halsman photographed Gene Tierney in 1945, she was at the peak of her fame. Laura was released the previous year; in 1945 she received an Oscar nomination for Leave Her To Heaven.
Glamour, personality, class.
Another one of the 1945 Halsman portraits of Gene Tierney.
Classic beauty. Vulnerability (pretty standard amongst all Hollywood stars, I think, except for Katharine Hepburn). A bit of a hard edge. We saw that edge in Laura, & especially in Leave Her to Heaven.
This, I think, is my favourite portrait of Gene Tierney, by Philippe Halsman, Hollywood, 1945.
Did Halsman ask Tierney to raise her index finger on her shoulder, or did she do it herself? That gesture makes the shot. Only five years in Hollywood, but she was definitely a pro.
Clifton Webb (1889) & Gene Tierney (1920) share a birthday. They were both so good in Otto Preminger's Laura, 1944.
This picture was likely taken by Frank Polony, the still photographer on the set.
Gene Tierney in a fashion spread for Life Magazine, with one of their top photographers, Peter Stackpole. This came out in October 1947.
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