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. I like this. Very interesting way to look at her career. My favourite Tierney movies. The Ghost and Mrs Muir, Leave Her to Heaven, Laura, Dragonwyck and Where The Sidewalk Ends.

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    1. Hey Carolyn. Glad you like this Gene Tierney movie page. I have seen and enjoyed four of your Top 5…..only Where The Sidewalk Ends has escaped me. I will have to check that one out. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.

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  2. I have seen 26 of the films listed. Gene Tierney is one of my favorite actresses of the classic era. Thanks for the page.

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    1. You beat my 24 by 2!

      That means you have Gold for USA.
      I am down to Silver for Canada.

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      1. Hey Flora….since Larry started giving his tally counts….you have had to settle for silver. But silver is better than the nothing I get….lol

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        1. Hey Flora…..good to know….but based on the amount of movies he watched we might never win another gold….ever…..lol

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    2. Hey Larry….I think when I asked you which stars were your favorites….Gene Tierney was the only one we did not have a UMR page on…well no more..,lol.

      Tally count: ….you 26, Flora 24, Paul 18, Bern1960 17 and me 8….another win….you are starting to get a serious collection of gold….lol. Thanks for stopping by….and sharing your thoughts and tally count.

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  3. How was I not one of the people who requested this page?

    Sorry Robert Roy/Bobby that I was not the first person to comment, but as Steve mentioned I have been distracted by my love of westerns airing for 48 straight hours on TCM

    and – gasp! – sleeping.

    I| love Gene Tierney.

    Gene’s role in her film opposite film noir regular Richard Widmark in Night and the City which was filmed in England during a food rationing- Widmark talked about always been hungry – was actually enlarged so that she had more work to do as she was working for the first time in years. Originally, she was meant to be Widmark’s girlfriend only. But her role was expanded so that she had a whole storyline with scenes where Richard was absent.

    My favourite of her career is Laura. I can talk hours about Laura. Laura is my favourite Dana Andrews movie. I own the DVD. I see it at least once every two months.

    I also love Leave Her to heaven – fabulous film. EVil. Evil. Evil. 🙂

    And what about The Ghost and Mrs. Muir – a beautiful and fastastic love story between a woman and a ghost whom she believes is the only one who can see him. But Natalie Wood as her daughter saw him too. George Sanders is wonderful. The entire cast is wonderful.

    Now that I’ve talked about favourites:

    Here are my rankings/viewings;

    The highest ranking film I have seen is number1
    The highest ranking film I have not seen is number 6

    Therefore, I have seen:

    5 of the top 5
    7 of the top 10
    10 of the top 15 (love the Return of Frank James)
    17 of the top 20
    21 of the top 25 (Whirlpool and Where the Sidewalk Ends I love too)
    I have seen 24 overall.

    The lowest ranked film I have seen is The Pleasure Seekers.

    As for the reference to the Agatha Christie mystery The Mirror Crackd- I knew the book before I knew of this actress and recognized the reference right away.

    Excellent, Bruce!

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    1. Hey Flora.
      1. I will forgive you for not being first…..though it would have been almost impossible to beat Bern1960 this time….as she was right next to me when I hit the publish button and had already read most of the page…..and her comment came about 2 minutes after the page hit the airwaves.
      2. I could have sworn that Gene Tierney was on the request list….and it was requested by more than one person…I must have deleted her when I was putting the requests in ABC order.
      3. Thanks for the behind the scenes information on Night and the City.
      4. Laura is a classic….and her performance in Leave Her To Heaven is awesome….three evils is about right…I was sure to find a picture of her in the row boat.
      5. I also enjoyed The Ghost and Mrs. Muir….she and Harrison were fun to watch together.
      6. The Egyptian was supposed to be a Marlon Brando movie….I hear Bob somewhere…lol.
      7. Tally count…..Larry 26, you 24, Paul 18, Bern1960 17 and me 8….seems I am at the bottom all the time lately…when it comes to classic movie stars.
      8. I figured you would enjoy that interesting fact about Tierney and Agatha Christie.
      As always…thanks for the visit, the comment and for sharing your movie knowledge.

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  4. Another winning page. I love how this pages come out some random. Or at least they appear to be random from my viewpoint. She was lovely and talented. Shame about her off screen problems. Keep up the good work.

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    1. Thanks Helakoski. They are pretty random….though the request list usually gets a subject picked….I do tend to go back and forth between classic stars and current stars….so since Tierney was a classic subject….the next one will be a current star. I agree with you 100% that she was a lovely and talented star. Her off screen issues were tragic indeed…..glad she recovered enough to continue working,,,,but the late 1950s were very rough for her. Thanks for the kind words and the comment.

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  5. Sorry Steve I meant Cornel rather that Colonel the latter being the way we used to think of it as kids.

    BOB

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