Gene Tierney

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6125 Hollywood Blvd. She died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, after suffering the effects of heart disease for several years. Howard Lee. She married after her retirement and distanced herself from her Hollywood career, and for the rest of her life politely refused any requests for interviews. She had two daughters by Oleg Cassini -- Daria, who was born mentally handicapped, and Christina -- and miscarried one child while married to W. By her retirment at the age of 17 she had appeared in more than forty films, and had acted with some of the biggest stars of her era, including Clark Gable and Myrna Loy in Too Hot to Handle (1938), Bette Davis in All This and Heaven Too (1940), and Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in Babes on Broadway (1941), but she was not able to make continue her success as an actor into adulthood. His previous wife had been the film star Hedy Lamarr. After a string of box-office disappointments, her film career ended with her final performance in 1943.

Howard Lee, whom she married in 1963. She continued acting but by this time was maturing, and as a teenager was less popular with audiences. She is interred in the Glenwood Cemetery in Houston, next to her second husband, oilman W. Her next major success, and the film for which she is perhaps best remembered was The Philadelphia Story (1941) in which she played the wise-cracking younger sister of Katharine Hepburn. Gene Tierney died from emphysema in Houston, Texas at age 70. She was one of the all-female cast of The Women (1939), as Norma Shearer's daughter, a role that was uncharacteristically sentimental for her. Kennnedy and Prince Aly Khan -- had taken their toll. She returned to the screen in 1963 in Advise and Consent. The film was a success and over the next few years Weidler was regularly employed by the studio, usually playing precocious tom-boys.

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. Her first film for them was opposite their leading male star Mickey Rooney in Love Is A Headache (1938). By 1955, Tierney was in a hospital, being treated for depression. Neither studio made full use of her abilities, and when Paramount did not extend her contract, she was signed by MGM. Muir (1947). Over the next few years she played minor roles in films for RKO and Paramount Studios. 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. Born in Eagle Rock, California, Weidler made her first film appearance in 1933.