info about gene:
With prominent cheekbones and the most appealing overbite of her day, her striking good looks helped propel her to stardom. Her best known role is the enigmatic murder victim in
Laura (1944).
Her first daughter was born mentally retarded because Gene had contracted measles during a U.S.O. tour. This served as the uncredited inspiration for the plot of the 1980 Agatha Christie movie
The Mirror Crack'd (1980).
During her first film she discovered that her voice was too high and it was suggested that she take up smoking to lower her voice. It worked, but she eventually died of emphysema.
Darryl F. Zanuck, founder of the 20th Century Fox, said she was unquestionably the most beautiful woman in movie history.
Had her share of love affairs during her Hollywood reign, including a notorious one with
John F. Kennedy, whom she met while filming
Dragonwyck (1946).
Tierney was in the throes of suicidal depression and was admitted to the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, on Christmas Day in 1957, after police talked her down from a building ledge
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