Gene Tierney Given Tribute This Weekend By TCM
Gene Tierney, hailed as one of the great beauties of her time, is best commemorated for his performance in the role of Laura (1944) and his Oscar-nominated performance for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Additional noted features include demonstrable Martha Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait (1943), Isabel Bradley Maturin Razor’s Edge (1946), Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Ann Sutton in Whirlpool (1949 ), Maggie Carleton McNulty in with Mating (1951) and Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God (1955). Few of his movie materials associated personnel and documents are contained in the files of the Wesleyan University Cinema, to which scholars and media experts from around the world can get entire access.
Gene Tierney passed away in 1991, soon before her 71st birthday, of emphysema in Houston, Texas. She had started smoking after a showing of her first movie to lower her voice because it “sounds like an angry Minnie Mouse.†She turned out to be a heavy smoker, which brought to her death. She was laid to rest next to Lee in the Glenwood Cemetery in Houston, Texas.
In 1986, Tierney was rewarded with the actor Gregory Peck with the first Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the Festival de San Sebastian Spain for her body of work.
For her contribution to the movie industry, Tierney has a star on the Walk of Fame at 6125 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
Gene Tierney, one of the most beautiful actresses in movie history, received the honor Saturday. And the beloved child star Margaret O’Brien receives the honor Sunday. (Tierney shown in “The Shanghaiâ€).