Early years
She was natural Gene Eliza Tierney within Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Howard Sherwood Tierney & Belle Lavina Taylor. Her sr. brother was Howard Sherwood "Butch" Tierney, Jr., & her immature sister was Patricia "Pat" Tierney. Her father was the prosperous insurance broker; her mother a previous gym teacher.

Cistron attended St. Margaret School, Waterbury, Connecticut, and Unquowa School, Bridgeport. Among her studies, she learned horseback riding. Her number one verse form, highborn Nighttime, was published in the school magazine. Writing verse became an occasional pastime in a period of the rest of her life. She so spent deuce years around Europe and attended the finishing school Brillantmont in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she learned to speak hone French.

She returned to the U.S. around 1938 and attended Farmington School. In the hike to the West Coast, she visited Warner Bros. and was told by Anatole Litvak she should become an actress. Her coming out person as a debutante was September 24, but she before long noticed she was bored using society life & decided to pursue the career around acting. Warners wanted to sign her to the contract, however her parents advised against it because of the moo remuneration offered.

Broadway & modeling
Around her 1st a portiin on Broadway, she carried a pail of a water supply through a stage within What a Life (1939). That equivalent season, she appeared in the role when Molly O'Day in the Broadway production ''Mrs. O'Brien Entertains, & besides played Peggy Carr around Ring 2.

Tierney likewise worked as a photographic model in New York. Photograph of her appeared within Life, Harper's Bazaar and Collier's Weekly.

Her wealthy father set up the corporation, Belle-Tier, to fund & promote her career. Columbia offered her a sextet-year contract, which she accepted. She met Howard Hughes, who tried unsuccessfully to seduce her. He afterwards remained the womb-to-tomb friend. The cinematographer advised her to lose the trifle weight, saying "a thinner face is more seductive." She so wrote to Harpist's Bazaar for the slimming diet, which she followed for the next twenty years.

A studio failed to find her the plan, nevertheless, therefore she returned to Just released York & starred when Patricia Stanley in The Male Animate being'' (1940) on Broadway.

Motion pictures
Tierney was offered a lead inside MGM's National Velvet, but after a production was delayed she signed by owning 20th Century Fox. Her motion picture debut wwhen within the starring role as Eleanor Stone in Fritz Lang's Western The Return of Frank James (1940) opposite Henry Fonda. The little role when Barbara Hall inside ''Hudson's Bay'' followed, released that same year.

1941 wwhen a occupy season for the actress, when she starred around the role as Ellie Will Lester in John Ford's drama Tobacco Road, the name part inside Belle Starr, as Zia inside Sundown, and when Victoria Charteris AKA Poppy Smith in The Shanghai Gesture. Inside 1942, she played Eva in Son of Fury, the dual role when Susan Miller & Linda Worthington within Rings on Her Fingers, the role when Kay Saunders within Thunder Birds, and Miss Young inside China Girl.

The supporting role within Ernst Lubitsch's classic 1943 comedy Heaven Can Wait, inside which she played a dual role when Martha Strabel & Van Cleve, signaled an upward turn in Tierney's career when her popularity increased.

Within 1944, she starred within what became her best known role when a meant slaying victim, Laura Hunt, in Otto Preminger's masterful mystery Laura.

When swimming Tina Tomasino around A Bell for Adano (1945), she played the jealous hearted femme fatale Ellen Berent Harland, opposite Cornel Wilde, in the film noir Leave Her to Heaven, a performance that won her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Tierney starred within the role when Miranda Wells in Dragonwyck (1946). That equivalent season, she played Isabel Bradley paired Tyrone Power, with John Payne, Anne Baxter, and Clifton Webb, in ''The Razor's Edge'', an adaptation Somerset Maugham's novel. She followed that using her role when Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) opposite Rex Harrison, with George Sanders, Anna Lee, and Natalie Wood.

Marriages, children & affair
Tierney experienced ii married man, costume and fashion designer Oleg Cassini (married July 11, 1941-divorced February 28, 1952); and Texas oilman W. Howard Lee (married July 11, 1960-his death February 17, 1981).

She & Cassini got 2 girl, Antoinette Daria Cassini (born October 15, 1943) and Christine "Tina" Cassini (born November 19, 1948).

Her hubby, Cassini, became another lieutenant in the Army in World War II, and Tierney was accorded a honor of pinning a regulatiin gold blocks on his uniform. When she was pregnant, inside June 1943, she came down sustaining German measles, probably contracted during the USO tour. Their infant, Darithe, was innate prematurely inside a hospital inside Washington, D.C., weighing 3 pounds, 2 ounces. Daria was indifferent & part unsighted, by owning cataracts, requiring a sum blood transfusion, and wwhen diagnosed as mentally retarded. Tierney's grief across a tragedy in time led to years of mental illness.

She met John F. Kennedy in the spring of 1946, while making Dragonwyck, and they had an affair. She experienced domesticated arguments sustaining her hubby, Cassini, when you took this instance, & the relationship sustaining new divorced Tyrone Power when making ''A Razor's Edge led to speculations per click. A as a result month, Jack Kennedy told her he can never marry her because of his political ambitions.

Her girl, Daria, was institutionalized around 1946 to be surfed fallowing. Tierney was heartsick. She fall a bit of step & fractured her astragalus good prior to motion-picture photography was to commence on The Ghost & Mrs. Muir'' & a production was held higher when she recovered. She so experienced the reconciliation by having Cassini. Career, affair & mental breakdown
Tierney gave memorable performances within 2 classic film noirs, Jules Dassin's Night and the City and Otto Preminger's Where the Sidewalk Ends (both within 1950).

Fallowing swimming Teresa paired Rory Calhoun in Way of a Gaucho (1952), which was filmed on location within Argentina, her contract at 20th Century Fox expired. That equivalent month, she starred when Dorothy Bradford within Plymouth Adventure opposite Spencer Tracy at MGM, which was followed by her role as Marya Lamarkina Sutherland paired Clark Gable in Never Let Me Go (1953). She remained at a studio to play Kay Barlow within Personal Affair, which was released that equivalent season.

When Tierney was inside Europe, she began an affair by owning Prince Aly Khan, but their marriage plans met sustaining fierce opposition from either a Aga Khan. She returned to the U.S., within which she played Iris Denver in Black Widow (1954), about the woman manslayer co-starring Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, George Raft, with Peggy Ann Garner.

When swimming a role when Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God (1955) opposite Humphrey Bogart, Tierney's long string of home troubles eventually took their toll. She said that Bogey may watch that she was mentally unstable.

Caring all about her mental health, she consulted the psychiatrist. She so left Hollywood and was admitted to Harkness Pavilion in New York. Late she went to the Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut. Fallowing Xxvii shock treatments, she tried to run away, however was caught & led back.

Tierney was seen by the neighbor around 1957 as she was about to go for it from either the shelf. A constabulary were known as & she was admitted to the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, on December 25. She was freed from either Menningers the as the consequence season, fallowing the coarse of action that involved, inside its last, working as a sales girl withinside a big emporium, in which she was spotted by a client & it resulted in arresting headline. She so met Howard Lee around Aspen, Colorado.

20th Century Dodger offered her the lead role inside Holiday for Lovers. Even so, a stress proved as well smashing. Times into production, she quit & was readmitted to Menningers briefly around 1959.

Later life
Years fallowing the tragedy of her girl Daria, Tierney learned from either a fan who approached her that the woman experienced sneaked away from quarantine while sick using German morbilli to meet her in the period of her USO tour in the early 1940s. Tierney said that once a woman recounted a story to her, she good stared at her taciturnly, so turned & walk off. She said she did non remember her, however when that 2nd meeting she would remember her for the rest of her life.

Around 1960, Tierney sent a telegram of congratulations to Kennedy on his election triumph, although she voted for Richard Nixon.

She married oil baron Howard Lee around Aspen around 1960 and moved to Houston. Tierney sexual love around Texas by using Lee & became renowned bridge player. Within 1962, 20th Century Fox announced she would play a lead role in Return to Peyton Place, but she became pregnant & dropped away from a design. She late experienced the miscarriage.

Her comeback to the screen wwhen around her role as Dolly Harrison inside Advise and Consent (1962) co-starring Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Peter Lawford, and Burgess Meredith. A year late she played Albertine Prine around Toys in the Attic starring Dean Martin and Geraldine Page.

Tierney played Jane Barton in The Pleasure Seekers (1964) starring Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, and Carol Lynley, then again retired.

She played Lenore Constable, yet, in the television movie Daughter of the Mind (1969) with Don Murray and Ray Milland.

Her autobiography, Self-Portrait, where she frankly discussed her life, career & mental problems, was published inside 1979.

Tierney's final indicate business performance wwhen as Harriet Toppingham in the TV mini-series Scruples (1980) starring Lindsay Wagner.

She died at age Lxx of emphysema in Houston. She is interred within Segment E-One of Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, beside her 2nd hubby, Howard Lee.

Gene Tierney has the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6125 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood.

Trivia
Some develop speculated that Agatha Christie used the real life tragedy of Tierney and her firstborn girl to construct her fictional plot in ''The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side'' (1962), as the motive behind the murder in the novel is similar. Tierney's 2nd hubby, Howard Lee, was married to Hedy Lamarr from 1953 to 1960.