06-23-2020, 03:55 PM
Starts at 2:00...
There are very very few interviews with her.
The audio isn't great but this is all there is.
Suicide is the opening topic of this interview...
Quote:In late December 1957, Tierney, from her mother's apartment in Manhattan, stepped onto a ledge 14 stories above ground and remained for about 20 minutes in what was considered a suicide attempt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Tierney
Could you imagine something as fine as Gene Tierney standing on the ledge of a building contemplating suicide?? Damn, yo.
4:38 ROFL. Wow. Holy shit man. This lady was truly fucking amazing.
4:56 she explains that the iconic Laura poster was an enlarged photograph of her with paint applied on top to make it look like a painting.
That's how perfect Gene Tierney really was...
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https://www.austinchronicle.com/imager/b...36381.jpeg
Usually paintings are perfected versions of people posing, but for Gene Tierney, they had to do it in reverse.
I dunno, I just find the story fascinating.
You gotta admit that's pretty interesting.
Classic hollywood was sort of glorious, still corrupt and insidious, but it produced some quality shit.
I think Gene Tierney is ENTRANCING.
Because she REALLY IS just that mesmerizing by HERSELF.
It's not just the filming techniques and stuff.
They don't make 'em like they used to though, there are very few entrancing actors/actresses out there these days.
I actually can't think of any right off the bat, which is totally bad.
There's like no one.
Lol...
6:04 OMG "Laura" (1944)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_(1944_film)
SUCH a great film, like yeah, it kind of is entirely centered around Laura's image...
But it's still excellent, and Gene Tierney was mythically beautiful enough to make it real.
Not gonna BS though, Gene's story is hard to watch/listen to because it was SOOO hardcore.
That's the truth of a lot of these early hollywood peoples' lives and there are tons of examples of it.
After this I'm gonna watch a later life interview with Veronica Lake because I won't even believe it exists til I see it.
Most of their lives were kinda heinous stories TBH.
But if you think about it, isn't almost anyone's life like that??
6:28 she tells the story of her "crooked teeth" but they're not crooked, they are actually referencing her overbite...
That was her most iconic trait in the media.
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https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/...L._AC_.jpg
Repositioning teeth changes bone structure somewhat... cuz they are in a certain position since early in life so your body grows that way.
People should stop fucking with plastic surgery... this is why today's popularized cosmetic procedures are so bad.
Gene Tierney just NATURALLY looked that way.
You either look like that or you don't, lmao.
Most people fuckin' don't...
Thing about Gene Tierney is that she was basically abused.
She was personally abused, systematically abused...
Probably traumatized and essentially brain damaged by conventional medical "treatments" for crazy people at the time.
I think one of the questions that people really have is what did these classic movie stars do in those other decades of their lives after they retired??
I've got a thread about super elderly people...
"What's the deal with living to be super old?"
https://www.sectual.com/thread-4893.html
And specifically super old hollywood people...
https://www.sectual.com/thread-4892.html
Oooo, check this pic out:
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/ame...d607434766
I've NEVER seen the full photo and I've been collecting pics of Gene Tierney since 2004.
There's GLITTER in her hair.
I mean...
DAYUM.
That's some straight up Prince shit right there.
