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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress . she was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film Laura (1944) she was nominated for Tierney was raised in Westport, Connecticut . she played Jo in a student production of Little Women . Tierney spent two years in Europe . Tierney’s society debut occurred on September 24, 1938, when she was 17 years old . soon bored with society life, she decided to pursue an acting career . she returned to the u.s. in 1938 and attended miss Tierney studied acting at a small greenwich village acting studio in new york . she became a protégée of Broadway producer-director George Abbott. (1938) she also worked as an understudy in The Primrose Path the following year, she appeared in the role of Molly O’Day in the Broadway production Mrs. O’Brien Entertains (1939) to favorable reviews . that same year, Tierney appeared as Peggy Carr in Ring she met Howard Hughes, who tried unsuccessfully to seduce her . after a cameraman advised Tierney to lose a little weight, she wrote to Harper’s Bazaar magazine . she followed a diet, which Tierney was initially offered the lead role in National Velvet, but production was delayed . when Columbia Pictures failed to find her a project, she returned to Broadway and starred in The Male Animal (1940) she was the toast darryl f. zanuck, head of 20th century fox, was rumored to have been in the audience . he dropped by the stork club, where he saw a Zanuck did not think Tierney was the actress he had seen . she was quoted as saying: “i always had several different ‘looks’ a quality that proved useful in my career” Tierney recalled during the production of Heaven Can Wait: Lubitsch was a tyrant on the set, the most demanding of directors . after one scene, which took from noon until five to get, Tierney was Tierney played the jealous, narcissistic femme fatale Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven (1945), adapted from a best selling novel by Ben Ames Williams . after playing Tina Toma Tierney won an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress . this was 20th Century-Fox’ most successful film of the 1940s . she starred as Miranda Wells in Dragonwyck . the following year, she co-starred again with Power, this time as Sara Farley in That Wonderful Urge (1948) she appeared in two other film noirs: the classic film noir Whirlpool (1949) and Otto after Tierney appeared opposite Rory Calhoun as Teresa in Way of a Gaucho (1952), her contract at 20th Century-Fox expired . that same year, she starred as Dorothy Bradford in Plymouth Adventure, in the 1940s, Tierney reached a pinnacle of fame as a beautiful leading lady . she was “called the most beautiful woman in movie history” and many of her movies became classic films . in 1953, she suffered problems with concentration, which affected her film appearances . while playing Anne Scott in the left hand of God (1955), she became ill . she consulted a psychiatrist and was admitted to Harkness after some 27 shock treatments, Tierney fled the facility, but was caught and returned . she later became an outspoken opponent of shock treatment therapy, claiming it had destroyed significant portions of her memory . in late 1957, Tier in 1958, 20th century-fox offered Tierney a lead role in Holiday for Lovers . but the stress upon her proved too great, so only days into production, she dropped out . soon afterwards, she played Antoinette Daria Cassini was born prematurely in Washington, DC . she weighed three pounds, two ounces (1.42 kg) and requiring a total blood transfusion . in June 1943 Daria Cassini was deaf, partially blind with cataracts, and severely mentally disabled . she was institutionalized for much of her life . this entire incident inspired a plot point in the 1962 Agatha Christie Tierney and Cassini separated on October 20, 1946, and entered a property settlement agreement . the divorce was to be finalized in March 1948, but they reconciled before then . during their separation, Tierney met John she began a romance with Prince Aly Khan while filming for personal affair in Europe . they became engaged in 1952, while Khan was going through a divorce from Rita Hayworth . Lee and Lamarr divorced in 1960, then Lee and Tierney married in Aspen, Colorado, on July 11, 1960 . they lived quietly in Houston, Texas, and Delray Beach, Florida until his death in 1981 . some documents of Tierney’s film-related material are held in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives . her papers are closed to the public . she is interred in Glenwood Cemetery in Houston . in “House Arrest”, the actors watch Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven . Tierney was the heroine of a novel, Gene Tierney and the Invisible Wedding Gift . Agatha Christie’s 1962 Violet’s face was disfigured after an accident involving her father . in my own fashion: an autobiography. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-62640-X . Gene Tierney: A Biography. Pygmalion/G.Watelel. ISBN 2-85704-230-2. Mérigeau, Pascal (1987). ISBN 2-85601-174-8. Tierney, Gene; Herskowitz, Mickey (1979). Self-Portrait. Peter Wyden. ISBN 0-88326-152-9. Vogel, Michelle (2005). Gene Tierney: A Biography. McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-2035-9.