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Gene Tierney

American actress

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“Laura”

  • Laura
    In Laura

    …executive named Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney). McPherson examines all aspects of Laura’s life, including the two men who knew her best, her mentor—the older, snobbish newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb)—and her sophisticated fiancé, Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price). Through their stories, which are told in flashback, through Laura’s letters,…

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“Leave Her to Heaven”

  • In John M. Stahl

    Gene Tierney starred as an unstable woman whose obsession with her husband (Cornel Wilde) results in murder and suicide; the supporting cast included Vincent Price and Jeanne Crain. Although there was some debate over whether the thriller was a true film noir—it featured spectacular locales…

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  • The quintessential film noir femme fatale
    In femme fatale

    … in The Maltese Falcon (1941), Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Ava Gardner in The Killers (1946), and Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946) and The Lady from Shanghai (1947).

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