The latter was filmed in Britain, and she remained there to shoot Personal Affair. Muir was her last major starring role from 1948’s The Iron Curtain onward, she appeared primarily in smaller supporting performances in projects including the 1949 thriller Whirlpool and Jules Dassin’s classic 1950 noir Night and the City.Īfter 1952’s Way of a Gaucho, Tierney’s Fox contract expired, and at MGM she starred with Spencer Tracy in Plymouth Adventure, followed by the Clark Gable vehicle Never Let Me Go.
Somerset Maugham novel - The Razor’s Edge. Tierney continued working at a steady pace, and in 1946 co-starred with Tyrone Power in an adaptation of the W. After 1945’s A Bell for Adano, she next appeared as a femme fatale in the melodrama Leave Her to Heaven, a performance which won her a Best Actress Academy Award nomination – her most successful film to date.
A supporting turn in Ernst Lubitsch’s classic 1943 comedy Heaven Can Wait signaled an upward turn in Tierney’s career, however, and the following year she starred as the enigmatic Laura in Otto Preminger’s masterful mystery.
Closer to home was 1942’s Thunder Birds, in which Tierney starred as a socialite however, she was just as quickly returned to more exotic fare later that same year for China Girl. Inexplicably and wholly inappropriately, she was cast as a native girl in three consecutive features: Sundown, The Shanghai Gesture, and Son of Fury. Fox remained impressed with her skills, but critics consistently savaged her work. She then starred as the titular Belle Starr.
The lead in MGM’s National Velvet was offered her, but when the project was delayed Tierney signed with Fox, where in 1940 she made her film debut opposite Henry Fonda in the Fritz Lang Western The Return of Frank James.Ī small role in Hudson’s Bay followed before Tierney essayed her first major role in John Ford’s 1940 drama Tobacco Road. However, after the studio failed to find her a project, she returned to New York to star on-stage in The Male Animal. A six-month contract was then offered by Columbia, which she accepted. The studio offered a contract, but the salary was so low that her parents dissuaded her from signing instead, Tierney pursued a stage career, making her Broadway debut in 1938’s Mrs. Tierney was educated in Connecticut and Switzerland she traveled in social circles, and at a party met Anatole Litvak, who was so stunned by her beauty that he requested she screen test at Warner Bros.
0 kommentar(er)
