American - Actress | November 19, 1920 - November 6, 1991
The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.
Gene Tierney
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My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.
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Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.
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It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
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It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
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In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
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In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
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In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.
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I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.
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I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.
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I was not cut out to be a rebel.
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I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.
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