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#OTD 1991 – Gene Tierney, 70, US actress (b. 1920)

She spent two years at a Swiss International School, and learned fluent French. In 1936 she visited Warner's studios, (where her mother's cousin was a producer), and met Anatole Litvak, who told her she should become an actress.

#OTD 1991 – Gene Tierney, 70, US actress (b. 1920)

Film debut: Return of Frank James (1940) Hudson's Bay * Tobacco Road * Belle Starr * Sundown * Shanghai Gesture (all 1941) Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake * Rings on Her Fingers * Thunder Birds * China Girl (all 1942)

#OTD 1991 – Gene Tierney, 70, US actress (b. 1920)

Heaven Can Wait (1943) Laura (1944) Bell for Adano * Leave Her to Heaven (1945 OscarNom) Dragonwyck * Razor's Edge (both 1946) Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947) Iron Curtain (1948) Wonderful Urge (1948) Whirlpool * Night and City (1950)

#OTD 1991 – Gene Tierney, 70, US actress (b. 1920)

#NYPD detective Mark McPherson investigates the murder of a young, beautiful, and highly successful advertising executive, Laura Hunt, killed by a shotgun blast to the face, in her apartment.

Laura (1944)

#OTD 1991 – Gene Tierney, 70, US actress (b. 1920)

Where The Sidewalk Ends (1950) Secret of Convict Lake * Way of Gaucho * Plymouth Adventure * Personal Affair * Black Widow * Egyptian * The Left Hand of God * Advise + Consent (1962) Toys in Attic (1963) Pleasure Seekers (1964)

#GeneTierney, contracted rubella during a WW2 USO appearance at Hollywood Canteen, 'allegedly from a female marine with the illness who broke quarantine to meet her favourite star.'

'Inspiration for #AgathaChristie The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side.'

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"In October 1943, Tierney gave birth prematurely. The rubella caused brain damage, leaving the baby, three pounds at birth, partially blind, deaf, and disabled. Reportedly, Tierney met the fan again, who spoke of their previous meeting — confessing she had measles when they met."

"This baby's making a prisoner of me. I can't do anything. Can't go any place. I don't see my husband. I don't want him to see me this way."

Her first daughter Antoinette born October 1943 – 2010. Why #GeneTierney chose to play Ellen, no-one knows, but her? Maybe a punishment?

Hamlet. Act I. V. "The Ghost urges Hamlet not to seek vengeance against Queen Gertrude, but rather to 'leave her to heaven, and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge to prick and sting her.'

#GeneTierney (OscarNom 1945) #JoanCrawford won Mildred Pierce

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