Ann Sothern

She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - for Motion Pictures, at 1612 Vine St, and for Television, at 1634 Vine St. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6125 Hollywood Blvd. She retired from acting, and died at her home in Ketchum, Idaho from heart failure. Howard Lee. Her role as the neighbour of elderly sisters, played by Lillian Gish and Bette Davis, with romantic interest provided by Vincent Price, brought Sothern an Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination. She had two daughters by Oleg Cassini -- Daria, who was born mentally handicapped, and Christina -- and miscarried one child while married to W. Her final film role was in The Whales of August in 1987. His previous wife had been the film star Hedy Lamarr.

She resumed working sporadically on television until the mid 1980s, including a television remake of her earlier success A Letter To Three Wives. Howard Lee, whom she married in 1963. In 1965 she was heard as the voice of the car in the series My Mother The Car. She is interred in the Glenwood Cemetery in Houston, next to her second husband, oilman W. Both programs were very successful and earned Sothern four Emmy Award nominations, but a bout of hepatitis had left her with a bloated and overweight appearance, and she preferred not to be seen. Gene Tierney died from emphysema in Houston, Texas at age 70. She was the lead in the series Private Secretary from 1953 until 1957, and The Ann Sothern Show from 1958 until 1959. Kennnedy and Prince Aly Khan -- had taken their toll. She returned to the screen in 1963 in Advise and Consent.

By the fifties she was rarely seen in films and was appearing regularly in television. A failed marriage to fashion designer Oleg Cassini, the premature birth of a partially blind and mentally retarded daughter (Tierney had contracted German measles from one of her fans while pregnant), and several failed love affairs -- the men included John F. She appeared in A Letter to Three Wives in (1949) and the film earned her excellent reviews, but did not stimulate her career. By 1955, Tierney was in a hospital, being treated for depression. After years of trying, Sothern had her first real success, and a string of "Maisie" film sequels and radio plays took her through to the late forties. Muir (1947). In a role originally intended for Jean Harlow, Sothern was cast as "Maisie", a bold, brassy but somewhat scatter-brained showgirl who was also an amateur detective. Tierney was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the following year's Leave Her to Heaven, and later starred in Dragonwyck, The Razor's Edge (both 1946), and The Ghost and Mrs.