As the star of classic '40s films like Heaven Can Wait, Laura, Leave Her to Heaven and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Gene Tierney was known for her stunning beauty and powerful performances.

Gene Tierney ... "exotic" look. But Tierney seemed to have a knack for film noir most of all. There were her two best-known pictures – Leave Her to Heaven (1945) and Laura (1944) – her ...

Darryl Zanuck — a Hollywood titan whose production credits in the 1940s and 1950s are far too long to list here — once called Gene Tierney ... of Laura from the film, Tierney told the ...

Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney), he monopolised. The crime is being investigated by a blunt cop, Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews), who’s bemused by the bitchy feuding over the corpse by the acid Waldo ...

“If I was going to die, I wanted to die in one piece, a whole person, and look pretty in my coffin,” Gene Tierney later said ... the dead in Preminger’s Laura (1944). Her range was astonishing.