Gene Tierney Movies

Gene Tierney in 1944's Laura
Gene Tierney in 1944’s Laura

Want to know the best Gene Tierney movies?  How about the worst Gene Tierney movies?  Curious about Gene Tierney box office grosses or which Gene Tierney movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Gene Tierney movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Gene Tierney (1920-1991) was an American Oscar® nominated film and stage actress. She was one of the most popular stars working in the 1940s…appearing in 14 $100 million (adjusted gross) movies during that time decade, Gene Tierney’s IMDb page shows 41 acting credits from 1940-1980. This page will rank 36 Gene Tierney movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Her television appearances were not included in the rankings.

Drivel part of the page:  This Gene Tierney page was requested by Film Lover 293.  Some of these pages are very difficult to put together.  This page turned out to be one of the easiest ones we have ever done.  Of her 36 movies…..29 of them were already in our database.  4 required some quick research…and 3 required some deeper research.  We will gladly take these numbers any day of the week when doing new UMR pages.

Gene Tierney in 1945's Leave Her To Heaven
Gene Tierney in 1945’s Leave Her To Heaven

Gene Tierney Movies Ranked In Chronological Order with Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.

Gene Tierney Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Gene Tierney movies by co-stars of her movies
  • Sort Gene Tierney movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Gene Tierney movies by domestic yearly box office rank
  • Sort Gene Tierney movies by how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Gene Tierney movie received.
  • Sort Gene Tierney movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
  • Blue link in Co-star column takes you to that star’s UMR movie page

Adjusted Gene Tierney Adjusted Worldwide Box Office Grosses 

Gene Tierney in 1946's The Razor's Edge
Gene Tierney in 1946’s The Razor’s Edge

Possibly Interesting Facts About Gene Tierney

1. Gene Eliza Teirney was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1920. Her father, a successful insurance broker, set up a corporation, Belle-Tier, to fund and promote her acting career….I think that it worked!

2. Gene Tierney most famous movie role was in 1944’s Laura.  She originally did not want to make the movie but did it anyway under contract obligations….so basically 20th Century Fox made her make the movie.

3. Gene Tierney appeared in five films with Dana Andrews: 1941’s Tobacco Road, 1941’s Belle Starr , 1944’s Laura, 1948’s The Iron Curtain and 1950’s Where the Sidewalk Ends.

4.  Gene Tierney’s only Oscar® nomination was for 1945’s Leave Her To Heaven.  Her incredible performance as one of the movie’s greatest villains is probably why this is one of Martin Scorsese‘s favorite movies.

5.  Gene Tierney was a guest at the house of Tyrone Power on May 19, 1946, when Primula Niven, wife of actor David Niven, fell down a flight of stairs, sustaining injuries that would eventually result in her death.

6.  Gene Tierney was married two times.  She had two children….both daughters.

7.  Gene Tierney’s daughter was born intellectually disabled because Gene had contracted German measles during her only appearance at the Hollywood Canteen. This served as the uncredited inspiration for the plot of the 1962 Agatha Christie novel and later movie 1980’s The Mirror Crack’d.

8.  When Gene Tierney saw herself on screen for the first time, she was horrified by her voice (“I sounded like an angry Minnie Mouse”). She began smoking to lower her voice, but it came at a great price – she died of emphysema.

9.  Gene Tierney appeared in 18 $100 million box office hits.  That is tied for 8th place when looking at all the actresses that are on our website.

10. Gene Tierneys’ cumulative movie totals:  Adjusted domestic box office:  $4.21 billion.  Her movies received 29 Oscar® nominations….winning 4 times.

Check out Gene Tierney‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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106 thoughts on “Gene Tierney Movies”

  1. For me she was the most beautiful woman to have ever graced movie screens. Daryl Zanuck agreed with me as he thought the same thing. Nice to see her being remembered. Laura is one of my favorite movies of all.

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    1. Hey Richard….thanks for stopping by….I think many people felt the same way about her. I agree Laura is an all-time classic movie. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

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  2. BRUCE

    1 A bonus it is getting a page on this beautiful actress of long ago. As many cinema-goers seem to have forgotten or were never aware of her in the first place it did not enter my mind that you would get around to her. at all.

    2 She was great as the selfish manipulator whom Power finally exposes and rejects in The Razor’s Edge. And of course she WAS Laura who haunts Dana Andrews who has never met her and thinks she is dead. The scene where out of the blue she walks in alive and surprises Dana who if I recall correctly is sitting in a brown study in front of her portrait is cinema art at its highest.

    3 Dana was her perfect counterpart as his laconic and often world-weary persona ideally suited those 40s/early 50s film noir flicks. Always 2nd fiddle if one of the A list stars was in the movie Dana was one of my very favourite B list stars.

    4 Gene and Ty Power also appear together in Son of Fury (1942). Strangely I preferred the 1953 remake with Colonel Wilde and Constance Smith even though the latter was an artistically
    inferior B movie.

    5 Anyway I am afraid you’ll need to extend your holiday – sorry Flora ! – because you’ve been churning out the updates and new pages at such a rate recently that I’ll need more time for my own data base to catch up ! !

    Best Regards BOB

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    1. Hey Bob.
      1. Seems I got some requests for a Tierney page a long time ago….but for some reason…I lost who asked for the page…and then yesterday Film Lover 293 requested her. Usually when I get a request I do a quick check to see how difficult the page will be to do. Last night I sat down for a quick look…and the next thing I knew I had found all the stats on all of her movies except for 1963’s Four Nights of the Full Moon which seems to be a movie that nobody released and nobody saw.
      2. I agree with your thoughts on Laura and The Razor’s Edge….though she made more movies with Andrews….I like her movies with Powers more.
      3. One day I will do a page on Dana Andrews….I feel good about his movies until we reach the 1960s….then his career dropped quickly
      4. I liked Son Of Fury……filmed as a real volcano was active….not thinking the Cornel Wilde version had that in the background….though until reading your comment I did not even realize the movie had been redone.
      5. That time will be coming soon….unless we figure out a way to publish when we are away from the database…..there will be no new information for almost a week. In July 2015….I only wrote 5 pages for the entire month….I am hoping to have 5 done before leaving town on Saturday.
      Cogerson 🙂

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      1. BRUCE
        1 Only in your pages would one find a comprehensive career box-office run down for a marvellous actress of long ago such as Gene So thank you on behalf of all those who appreciate it as much as I.

        2 I have Dana Andrews While the City Sleeps on DVD and regularly dust it down and watch it. Great atmospheric movie and almost the last decent thing Dana did before the decline of his career, though round about the same time he did Beyond a Reasonable Doubt which had a great twist at the end.

        3 5 more pages on the way this week ! Must ring the travel agent and cancel my August hols in Italy.

        BOB

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        1. Hey Bob
          1. Hey…I figure somebody has to get this information out there….lol.
          2. I will have to check out that Andrews movie….maybe Dana Andrews will be the next classic star. My mom just shared the information that he was brothers with Steve Forrest…that was something that I did not know.
          3. That was a total of 5 before we leave….3 are already done…2 to do in the next 3 days….so I think you can postpone that call to your travel agent…lol.

          Actually I have this warped idea….Debbie has a William and Mary class on Saturday morning…we are leaving as soon as she gets home….my plan is to publish a new page when she calls saying she is on the way home….that way new information will out there for a little bit of the vacation….since I have made the decision to write more pages on a regularly basis the views have gone up and up….part of me thinks the gap of no new information will stop that trend of increasing the views. Since this hobby generates no income…and only costs me money (to pay my website provider)….the views are one of the main sources to keep doing the pages….I get a kick out of seeing that the pages are reaching the entire world…with the exception of Central Africa.

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          1. BRUCE
            1 I knew about Steve Forrest. He’s a ringer for Dana. As he never nade it into Dana’s league I find it hard to recall a Steve film though. Possibly Liz Taylor’s Rhapsody. I’ll have to look it up.

            2 Your pages are so professional that I never thought that you regarded them as a hobby. Do you still also run a store then?

            BOB.

          2. Hey Bob
            1. I see it now that I know they are related….but never saw it before. I remember Steve from S.W.A.T. the television show.
            2. My grocery store running days are over….21 years of 90 hours a week….Tuesdays off…..and more work on holidays …did my time…..now I am a stay at home dad…..part time teacher. It was the best decision of my life…and it worked out so well….that is why we have a 7 year old named Emily running around.
            3. I joined HubPages at the beginning of 2011….when their slogan….”Write about what you want…and earn money for it” caught my eye. Turns out their slogan should have been….”Write about what you want….and HubPages will earn money for it”.
            4. During my time there I won 3 Hubbies….. my favorite was a Hubbie win for 2012’s Best Page of the Year…for this page…which is the only remaining movie page left on HubPages. http://hubpages.com/entertainment/World-War-2-Movies-in-Chronological-Order I came up with this idea….after I randomly watched Cary Grant’s Destination Tokyo and Spencer Tracy’s Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo back to back.
            5. So far my compensation for all of these pages…..are two HubPage t-shirts, one HubPage bumper sticker and one HubPage notebook…..which WoC still has and uses…..I got those for my 3 Hubbie award wins.

          3. Cogerson

            Dana Andrews and Steve Forrest were 16 years apart in age. I have read (and no idea how true it is) that they did not meet until after WWII when Forrest came to Hollywood and decided to pursue a film career. Quite different movie types. Andrews was a polished actor. Forrest was like an old oak tree. Wooden as can be, but somehow solid and impressive.

          4. Hey John…thanks for the information on Andrews and Forrest. I wonder if Forrest got advice from big brother when filming Mommie Dearest. 16 years is a long gap. I have a 28 and a 7 year old. They are not too close….especially since they never lived with each other. So I can easily see your comment about their relationship being true. Thanks again.

  4. Good one Bruce.
    I really like Gene Tierney.
    Have seen about half of her movies, certainly all the big ones.
    “Leave Her to Heaven” ROCKS!

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    1. Hey Paul…..thank you…..glad you like her and the page. We do a tally count with some of the visitors….with three people reporting in….you have the best score…..but some serious contenders have yet to report…
      Tally Count
      Paul G. 18
      Bern1960 17
      Cogerson 8
      Thanks for stopping by and commenting.

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  5. She was pure evil and very selfish in Leave Her To Heaven. Not a nice person at all in that one. I know for sure I have seen 17 of her movies and a few others sound very familiar.

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    1. Hey Bern1960….thanks for digging through the memory to play our tally contest…..you medaled last time….not thinking you are going to this time. Tally count Paul 18, you 17 and me at 8. I agree with you about Leave Her To Heaven the boat scene alone proves your point. Thanks for helping out.

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