Thea autobiography of 1940s/50s movie star Gene Tierney
What a wonderfully honest person she was...sharing her mental health problems back when people didn't talk about them. Loved her as an actress before reading this and now love and respect her as a human being. In the end she found happiness and married a man who was perfect for her.
This biography opens with Gene Tierney's thoughts as she is standing on a ledge of a high rise building in New York's tony Sutton place contemplating jumping. She feels no fear. Marilyn Monroe lives just down the street and shortly afterwards is found dead, apparently at ther own hand as well.
The bio continues through Tierney's mental struggles with coping with life, unable to raise her daughter, in and out of mental institutions, her upbringing and career. Profoundly sad and contemplative, this writing will surprise readers as to the battles that even beautiful, successful people sometimes face in the real world.
Gene Tierney was not only a talented actress, but one of the most beautiful screen stars ever. Here she is pictured (black and white)with Gary Cooper, Tyrone Power, Clark Gable, Henry Fonda, Howard Hughes, and more of her screen loves, but in reality failing at love with the wrong men. I found it fascinating, yet heartbreaking. One to keep in the non-fiction collection of your library.
The bio continues through Tierney's mental struggles with coping with life, unable to raise her daughter, in and out of mental institutions, her upbringing and career. Profoundly sad and contemplative, this writing will surprise readers as to the battles that even beautiful, successful people sometimes face in the real world.
Gene Tierney was not only a talented actress, but one of the most beautiful screen stars ever. Here she is pictured (black and white)with Gary Cooper, Tyrone Power, Clark Gable, Henry Fonda, Howard Hughes, and more of her screen loves, but in reality failing at love with the wrong men. I found it fascinating, yet heartbreaking. One to keep in the non-fiction collection of your library.
