Gene Tierney: Hollywood Icon's Tragic Life and Legacy

[@kayevans2964]

The Ghost and Mrs Muir is one of my favourites.Such a gentle film yet very moving 🥰

[@Roz-y2d]

Yes, I remember. Lovely film❤

[@Shellmurt]

Me too i remember watching it with my grandmother ❤

[@stephaniestanley8041]

The end is devastating. Like in the movie, I believe that the second my mother died at 87, my father's hand was there for her.❤😢

[@track1949]

Leave Her To Heaven is still a great film. 🎉

[@sondragramse1770]

Watched that movie many times!

[@Jessica-pk2db]

My great aunt was a hair dresser and makeup artist for stars back then . I have a picture of my great aunt and Gene. I think my aunt was working on her hair.

[@stephaniestanley8041]

❤🎉 Jessica this is amazing

[@pannamal5182]

What else would she be working on? Best in bed

[@lynncarstens8316]

How cool

[@lelia660]

You are so lucky!!!

[@JanetGough-v4x]

What a precious thing!

[@jhawker2895]

I actually had dinner with my parents and Gene Tierney in 1957 at the age of 10. I don't remember much about the evening except for the extremely kind person Gene appeared to be to a child of 10. Thanks for reminding me of a wonderful person who I met far to young..🤩

[@VeraVeronica39]

She was underrated in my opinion. She was so beautiful and had such versatility. The roles she chose were all different and challenging.

[@BonnieCassler-dx6sd]

Loved her as Laura. One of my favorite mysteries.❤

[@vickimcwhirter6694]

I love Laura too, one of my favourite films. Gene was exquisite and Dana Andrews so masculine and sexy. ❤

[@CarolLustgarten]

Loved her in Laura. So beautiful. Talented. Beauty unmatched. 😊

[@pickettywitchoriginal]

Holy crap what a beautiful woman she was!

[@prudencepineapple9448]

Such a complicated woman who experienced great tragedy. My favourite actress of the 1940s-1950s. She always looked so fragile. My lasting memory of Gene is that of her on a lake in a row boat, watching her stepson drown in "Leave her to heaven" (1945). If you know the scene it's the unmoving porcelain face, deep red lips, dark sunglasses and totally emotionless. Very beautiful but also very evil. Her best role for me along with Laura!

[@imtheitchyouneedtoscratch]

Indeed and should have won the Oscar for best actress not bloody Joan Crawford 🤦‍♂️ (1942)

[@brendancoburn427]

...it was perfect!

[@melissaconnellyjones2622]

Any day that you get to hear another fascinating tale by Paul is the best ever. Having to endure 27 ECT treatments is horrifying all on its own, but then adding the other tragedies and struggles she faced it’s amazing she was able to not only survive, but rise above with style and grace. A truly remarkable lady.

[@sundayze]

Gene Tierney - one of the actresses of old I most admired.

[@GalvMermaid50]

I've heard her autobiography and visited her grace. What a courageous and beautiful lady.❤

[@barbarawillis5187]

This was a kind and informative look at Gene Tierney's life. She was beautiful and talented.

[@rhondajohnson8310]

Paul and old Hollywood tales? Don't mind if I do!

[@phaedrapage4217]

Your description of her beauty is spot-on. And my cats are still drawn to your voice, you've got quite a fan club here making it hard to type. Ellie, Lily, Daisy, and Chuck all say Hello! 😂❤❤❤❤❤

[@hildahilpert5018]

Oh how sweet.What smart kitties.

[@rosemiller8425]

She was beautiful, I love Ghost and Mrs. Muir,

[@glendam1148]

I could listen to you all day. Great voice. Great presentations. Very informative and interesting.

[@ttf4now]

How sad that mental health is still so misunderstood today.

[@melindabsa8391]

The stigma sadly lives on...

[@angiehowell1490]

Leave her to Heaven. Mental illness in that film

[@michelledesgroseilliers2956]

Paul speaking about classic Hollywood.....Yes, please!!!! ❤ from the USA!!!

[@Leslie55555]

Gene’s autobiography is incredible!

[@Wisdom-Nuggets-Tid-Bits]

Love your new channel!! Gene Tierney is one of my favorite movie actresses!!!

[@AmberPearce-y9o]

She was so beautiful, Dragonwyck & Leave her to heaven are two of my favourite films!

[@sherbearb.1593]

Paul, Thank you. I love old Hollywood. And may I say, you have the kindest looking eyes.

[@phaedrapage4217]

I wish he was my "cool uncle" You know, the one at all the family reunions who had the best stories to tell. We're all his now adult nieces and nephews, and we all gather around him here to hear another story. (Another story that indeed may literally make us say "well, I never...") Gotta love cool Uncle Paul! ❤❤❤

[@joejones9520]

i think he is ai-created

[@KimberlySays...]

I've visited her grave here in Houston. I just happened upon it inside an enormous cemetery.

[@deniseleplatt1616]

I love this. Once again Paul does a fantastic job. Thank you

[@patriciakeenan5448]

The Razor's Edge (1947) with Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb. A masterpiece & she was breathtaking in beautiful b&w photography which captured her wonderful cheekbones. Thank you Paul, for this thoughtful tribute to a lovely lady❤

[@joanneentwistle7653]

Oleg Cassini -- now I have a face to the clothes that were around in the 80s. And now I realize I am not the only person who sounds like an angry Minnie Mouse haha. Having a daughter with special needs and dealing with depression, I comprehend the heartache this woman dealt with. As a mother, we want to heal our child's wounds, but sometimes we can't and we carry the guilt of not being able to. My heart goes out to her and her daughters.

[@Nat929]

Stunning natural beauty ✨️

[@sherbearb.1593]

Another of my favorite genres, by my favorite narrator. Wow. Lucky us!!

[@margaretbuckley9309]

Thank you for this Gene was such a great actress 👍

[@MistressQueenBee]

i think Paul is one of our really good story tellers of this century. great research on all his videos and a wonderful voice to draw you in.

[@laurenromeo6954]

She was a great actress and I really like a lot of her work!

[@bunnymad5049]

There's a Miss Marple case that echoes the tragedy of the broken quarantine. I must watch more of Gene's movies. I loved, "The Ghost and Mrs Muir". Her acting was different than the typical of the day. She was "real", not affected. Thank you, Paul.

[@rubies200]

Her novel, "Self-Portrait", saved me.

[@simpleman5688]

Cheers 🍻

[@mistermaxr]

I love your videos and I love Gene Tierney. I suggest editing in a snippet about Laura - its her most famous and remembered role.

[@laura6796]

I think I am going to really enjoy this channel! 😊

[@lelia660]

You did such Brilliant job. Her story has always broken my heart. I could recite every word of "Laura"--I've seen it so many times.

[@tonkysue207]

Really enjoyed this,brilliant presentation.she was very talented,and of course beautiful 💙uk

[@rosemaryfranzese317]

This is a good video about Gene rather than about her career. Agatha Christie used the tragedy of Gene’s experience of contracting rubella and giving birth to a severely disabled child in her novel “The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side”, the character of Marina Gregg wasn’t based on Gene but was inspired by this incident. I didn’t realise that Gene’s final marriage was such a good one and that she finally found a supportive and loving husband and l pleased to know she did. There were tragedies and setbacks in her life but she left behind some fine performances in films that are still well worth watching today but she also found peace and happiness in her later years and resumed her career on her terms. It wasn’t all doom and gloom with the radiant Gene Tierney.😊

[@Roz-y2d]

At long last I know the identity of the actress in Agatha Christies ‘A mirror cracked’ !!! Liz Taylor played an Hollywood actress with a ‘secret’. It was said that Christie based it on a real actress, and now we know!

[@Ciara1594]

My dad told me what happened to Ms.Tierney and her poor daughter. 🙄

[@80sDECADEshouldNEVERLEFT]

I cannot believe how pretty she was back in her heyday when I 1st heard of her and saw pictures of her 10 plus years ago; I was just am/stunned of her beauty!!

[@kevinmott6205]

Very moving and very well told story ❤

[@IndieAnnieJones1]

Gene is one of my favorite actresses? I did not realize all of the background of her story, especially her bouts with mental illness. Thank you so much for sharing her story and the legacy she left in her films and her life😊

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@HannahD87]

I am bingeing your videos. Wonderful narrator with a lovely kind voice. I’d love to request longer videos please? I could listen to you all night. There are far too many monotone people on KZbin but you’re a million miles from that. I love your style too and that we can actually see your face and demeanour. Really enjoying watching. Thank you for making the content. Very best wishes, Hannah x

[@janysmahoney1271]

'Leave Her 2 Heaven' is my favourite; a standalone beauty of the Silverscreen

[@thejudgmentalcat]

She was independent at a time when most women couldn't be. Kudos to her and to Bogie, who was one of the coolest Hollywood stars ever ❤

[@MrsMoofy]

Most beautiful woman of all time ❤ what a stunner

[@samydiesta7460]

Most Beautiful Woman Ever. Undoubtedly. ❤❤❤❤

[@TheKoolbraider]

The movie "Laura" is a classic. She's absolutely beautiful in it.

[@Sarah_270]

I didn't realize about your other channels, how brilliant!!!

[@JJW77]

Well, I never thought that you would do a Gene Tierney bio...

[@Deepbluecat]

Can you please do a presentation on Louise Brooks?

[@CatSharkie]

What a thoughtful video about a fascinating person, told with compassion and justifiable admiration

[@vanessadeakin]

She's one of my favourite actress

[@lorifromtemeculaca426]

Love all 3 of your channels, sir! Thank you for EVERY single story!

[@caroldry9262]

She was the most beautiful woman in Hollywood!

[@stephaniehale3379]

Why does no one mention 'the razor's edge'? A great great film and one of her best

[@keithdukes5990]

I'll second that 👍 along with "where the sidewalk ends!" With Dana Andrews And "Night & the City!" With Richard Widmark!😊 Both great underated Films Noirs IMHO🤔🧐😊👍

[@surreygirl2075]

Very sad gene had treatment for depression and couldn't remember her life a had mental health such a beauiful wonderful actress staring in Laura was my favourite film

[@garybrockwell2031]

One of my love's 😢 Great how her good parents looked after her in her youth💪💯 A real beauty 😍 her book is one we should all read🤔⚖️😓 In today's world where the have shut most facilities 🆘.. After such a life I'm really happy that she found a real man to look after her... Favourite film "The ghost and Mrs Muir" with Rex Harrison 🎬

[@jgg59]

Martin Scorsese has written a couple of articles on Gene Tierney he called her the most underrated actress of Hollywood’s golden era

[@ColleenD78]

Just subbed to your new channel!!! Super psyched for this, I adore all the golden age stars and can't wait to hear you tell their stories ❤❤❤

[@melindabsa8391]

Instantly subscribed. Wonderful channel, thank you so much from France.

[@ian757]

What a full and interesting life she led. I’ve seen many of her films and I’m sure you have too. I imagine you very much enjoyed, ‘The Ghost and Mrs Muir’.

[@deniselyke2841]

Love to see one on Howard Hughes. I could listen to Mr. Brodie all day

[@sondragramse1770]

Gene and Howard Hughes are buried in the same cemetery in Texas

[@TheJillybean13]

All this time I didn’t know about your sister channel. I guess I have some catching up to do. Subscribed. Cheers from across the pond and over the Appalachian/Smoky mountains sitting here in Nashville, TN (music city)

[@MLNoff]

I consider the loveliest of her time.

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

That's Hollywood

[@kimyip4207]

I am glad she ended well

[@universalqueenfern]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@prudencepineapple9448]

15:13 I can only speak from personal experience concerning Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). I had a close family member who had Bi-polar Type 1. ECT today is seen as a 'last resort' therapy. It can and was beneficial with my family member. To quote from The American Psychiatric Association: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a medical treatment most commonly used in patients with severe major depression or bipolar disorder that has not responded to other treatments. ECT involves a brief electrical stimulation of the brain while the patient is under anesthesia. It is typically administered by a team of trained medical professionals that includes a psychiatrist, an anesthesiologist, and a nurse or physician assistant.

[@nancytoothaker3224]

Yes, I had ECT for major depressive disorder back in 2003. I had to arrive SUPER early in the morning, get checked by the nurse, wait in a hospital bed until it was my time and then get wheeled to the treatment area. Then I'd be put under while they did the treatments, typically a series of shocks thru electrodes on my temples. I'd wake up back in the waiting area and get checked by the nurse again and then get to have someone drive me home. I had treatments 3 times a week for a month but I wasn't seeing any improvement so we stopped. I remember sleeping a lot and feeling vaguely sore but it definitely affected my memory, I have whole events that I have no recollection of.

[@roxannekabotsky2997]

It was a barbaric treatment. My bipolar birth mother was treated with ECT and suffered from memory loss all her life.

[@watchingthewheelsgoround260]

The actress’s of today will never be close to the beauty of golden age of cinema actresses.

[@imtheitchyouneedtoscratch]

God damn straight about that.

[@Lvnshyrn07]

Can we just take a moment to contemplate the fact that in the "Tobacco Rose (or Road?)" movie, they actually said that a 23 yo woman was too old? 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 dude....... we have come a long way, baby!🤣

[@susanb2015]

In many old movies women couldn't be older than 23 and men couldn't be older than 38. They could Be much older but not say their real ages.

[@RebeccaGogovcev]

Like that man would say no to this gorgeous woman!

[@Flamsterette]

Ew, smoking. Thanks for the upload, Paul.

[@sarahcartier3393]

Hollywood's still obsessed with stick thin actresses? Love the name Antoinette, wonder what happened to her?????

[@susanb2015]

She spent her whole life in a Home and died in her 60s.

[@sarahcartier3393]

@@susanb2015 Did her mom ever visit or did she just disown her for her career?

[@susanb2015]

@@sarahcartier3393 All I heard in her biography is that she would sit in a room that had a painting of her daughter as a baby and cry. It seemed she never saw her daughter. One thing I don't like about Tierney no matter how mentally ill she was. She could've kept her daughter.

[@susanb2015]

I just found out that Howard Hughes paid for everything for her daughter.

[@katesun2957]

@@susanb2015 Or at least visited.

[@janejohnstone5795]

I sense ..she came from privilege..well educated and beautiful...

[@skuhlemeyer]

Hey anyone in their 70s I had her paper doll remember them?

[@jakevendrotti1496]

Yes, I remember the Gene paper doll!

[@lilliedoubleyou3865]

First time on this channel! Do we need to adjust the playback speed to 1.25?

[@jakevendrotti1496]

Yes

[@janysmahoney1271]

2me, 1 of the top 2 most striking women of the Silverscreen era; My 15yr ol son recently caught a small glimpse of her in the film 'Laura'; i had t pick his mouth up off the floor an he later asked.. *Who's she, shes stunning beautiful?*

[@sharonswift8668]

Her sister half sister Barbara was a patient at state hospital I worked at In Pennsylvania.

[@lilymarie4030]

Don't understand how he could not mention 'Laura'!!

[@janejohnstone5795]

She looked like Jackie Kennedy..a little....very beautiful..

[@OrangeTabbyCat]

A 17 year old catching the eye of an old Hollywood geezer, a man telling her to lose weight… what a crappy world for actresses. At least Lucille Ball showed them for a while but she was bitching with female workers in the business.

[@xenotbbbeats7209]

Holy cow, my niece looks so much like her, except my niece"s eyebrows are thicker and more gorgeous, and she has light green eyes instead of blue. My niece is so gorgeous. She looks better without makeup than with. She's earning her PhD. at Texas A&M now. When she was in high school, she was walking through the mall. She stood 5'8", was maybe a size 2 with natural DDs. She never wore makeup, had lips so pouty, when she tried to get her bottom lip pierced, the ring was too small to fit around her plump bottom lip, and had wavy, thick, chestnut hair down to her waist. The manager of Victoria's Secret ran out into the hallway and said, "You're working here!!"😅 She did, too, until my brother and sister-in-law found out! I'm glad she didn't go into modeling and went to college instead. Beauty fades, but her intelligence will go on for decades. Right now, she can enjoy both!

[@jgg59]

To be fair Gene Tierney actually had green eyes

[@UPalooza]

Your compatriot Agatha Christies was so crass, that she took Tierney's story and used it as the basis for her book, The Mirror Crack'd.

[@suzzannegabel1636]

The story of poor Gene being infected with rubella (German measles) by a selfish fan is basically the plot of Agatha Christie's "The Mirror Cracked".

[@sherrymiller2302]

I have difficulty feeling maximum empathy for someone genetically given the advantage of great beauty, great intelligence, wealth, etc, etc. Society often uses the "ideal" to falsely filter out those seen as unworthy of consideration.

[@ericarchie7426]

Paul B. didn't do his usual sign-off. 🤔

[@stephaniestanley8041]

It is not fair or accurate to assume Gene was unfaithful in her marriage early on to Oleg.

[@jgg59]

When she was separated, she did have an affair with Kennedy and Kurt Douglas. But to be fair, it didn’t look like her and Oleg Cassini were ever getting back together. But they did.

[@stephaniestanley8041]

@@jgg59 my comment was early on in her marriage

[@jgg59]

@@stephaniestanley8041 but that never happened on Tierney’s part Cassini always cheated.

[@marcysmith3166]

The modern era stock video footage detracts from the subject and is a turn off.

[@janysmahoney1271]

Her mental health issues must of been really hard t live with in an era where mental health was seen as a disease

[@gailcurl8663]

It's Marilyn Monroe, Not Madeline Monroe!! What is Your Problem??

[@canadian_american84]

She has piercing eyes

[@r3db0x]

Was she any good at acting? From this telling, it sounds as if she only got her success because of men interested in her beauty and "dedication".

[@freddyfurrah3789]

There is only one reality. Unless you are talking about alternative dimensions, but even then. It just makes reality that more amazing. I have to give you a thumbs down.

[@StayKindUnwind]

Holy shit theres more