Best Gene Tierney movies
Today we present the best Gene Tierney movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen ... and that you love! Let's go there with the best movies from Gene Tierney:
TOP 17: Black Widow
Gene Tierney as: Iris Denver
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Release: 1954
A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.
TOP 16: The Egyptian
Gene Tierney as: Baketamon
Genre: History, Drama
Release: 1954
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.
TOP 15: The Return of Frank James
Gene Tierney as: Eleanor Stone
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Release: 1940
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
TOP 14: The Left Hand of God
Gene Tierney as: Anne 'Scotty' Scott
Genre: Drama
Release: 1955
A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his tough tactics prove very successful in the Seven Villages, as around them China disintegrates in civil war and revolution. But he has a secret, and his friendship with mission nurse Anne (an attractive war widow) seems to be taking on an unpriestly tone.
TOP 13: The Shanghai Gesture
Gene Tierney as: Victoria Charteris (aka "Poppy Smith")
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 1941
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
TOP 12: Whirlpool
Gene Tierney as: Ann Sutton
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Release: 1950
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
TOP 11: Tobacco Road
Gene Tierney as: Ellie May Lester
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1941
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
TOP 10: Dragonwyck
Gene Tierney as: Miranda Wells
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Release: 1946
For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.
TOP 9: And the Oscar Goes To...
Gene Tierney as: Self (archive footage)
Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
Release: 2014
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
TOP 8: Heaven Can Wait
Gene Tierney as: Martha Strabel Van Cleve
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Comedy, Romance
Release: 1943
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.
TOP 7: The Razor's Edge
Gene Tierney as: Isabel Bradley
Genre: Drama, Romance, History
Release: 1946
An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
TOP 6: Where the Sidewalk Ends
Gene Tierney as: Morgan Taylor
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 1950
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
TOP 5: Leave Her to Heaven
Gene Tierney as: Ellen Berent Harland
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Release: 1945
A young novelist, Richard Harland, meets beautiful Ellen Berent on a train where they fall in love and are soon married. When tragedies take first his handicapped young brother, then his unborn son from him, Harland gradually realises that his wife's insane jealousy may be the cause of the tragedies in his life. Yet another shock awaits them all, as Ellen's emotions become uncontrollable.
TOP 4: Advise & Consent
Gene Tierney as: Dolly Harrison
Genre: Drama
Release: 1962
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
TOP 3: Night and the City
Gene Tierney as: Mary Bristol
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Release: 1950
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
TOP 2: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Gene Tierney as: Lucy Muir
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Mystery
Release: 1947
In 1900, strong-willed widow Lucy Muir goes to live in Gull Cottage by the British seaside, even though it appears to be haunted. On her very first night she meets the ghost of the crusty former owner, Captain Gregg—and refuses to be scared off. They eventually become friends and allies, after Lucy gets used to the idea of a man's ghost haunting her bedroom.
TOP 1: Laura
Gene Tierney as: Laura Hunt
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Release: 1944
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.