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 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
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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Cogerson
Gene Tierney made her debut in a color movie, The Return of Frank James, in 1940. Within a year, she jumped into the Technicolor western outlaw waters full bore by playing Belle Starr. In all she made 5 color movies in the 1940’s, and 6 more in the 1950’s, with 1 in the 1960’s for a total of 12 out of 37 features in color. Noteworthy is that 2 of her first 4 features in the early forties were in color, but only 1 of her last 4 in the 1960’s.
Cogerson
It flipped to anonymous again.
Fixed it.
What I want to know is where did Steve get that ‘rogue’ poster that showed Tierney billed above Fonda in Return of Frank James. Not only was Hank in the title role but the official posters show his name above the title with Gene’s below – see for example Wikipedia AND IMDB.
See my previous post about GeneTierney. What’s going on here? Steve’s posters show her billed above Fonda in Rings on her Fingers too yet as again Wikipedia/IMDB illustrate that was not the case officially. What’s Steve got against Fonda – or was Gene Chuck’s secret girlfriend?
Bob, John was asking the same question on the Return of Frank James poster, the only possible answer I can think of is the film was re-issued in the late 40s when Tierney was currently ‘hot’ and the European distributors were more excited about her than they were Henry Fonda.
I can’t explain the Rings on her Fingers poster, it looks like an American poster, could be a re-issue. I have an alternate poster with different artwork and Fonda’s name is first. Maybe the poster artist didn’t care about ‘who’s on top’. 🙂
That is interesting stuff about how the posters are different.
1 Thanks for your explanations about Tierney out billing Hank. Like your poster artist it won’t concern me who’s on top provided you don’t start producing posters that give Myrna top billing over the King !
2 Anyway I’m now off to visit two other ladies – Jen Jones on your sit ena Goldie on Bruce’s. Have a good weekend.
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Hank Fonda was still struggling back then….and she was lovely….so I can see her being first….lol.
Hey John….good stats on Gene Tierney. I guess as her career went on…the less the studios were willing to pay for color…especially in the 1960s. Thanks as always for the comment and the visit.
(1) Here you’ve surpassed even your usual high standard so 9.5/10 before I go any further.
(2) I can’t recall seeing a run so many immediately opening stunning posters for what are obviously your lowest ranked movies
(3) Hudson’s Bay, Belle Star, Left Hand of God and China Girl, most of them made me wonder whether posters for the leading actresses of that time had extra curves airbrushed in just as they painted additional muscles onto a bare-chested Laddie in some of the posters for Two Years before the Mast.
(4) And as for the posters for Black Widow and Tobacco Road – Mama Mia!
(5) Those black and white stills too are simply breath-taking and I particularly loved the ones of Power and Gene in Son of Fury, Sexy Rexy and Gene in a creepy one from Mrs Muir, Dana Andrews in signature trench coat staring at THAT painting in Laura and Vincent Price and Gene from the same movie.
(6) I’m sure you won’t mind my also expressing my liking for Bruce’s beautiful miniature of Gene in the boat with those striking dark glasses.
(7) Bruce and you agree on 4 of the Top 5 and you both have them in the same order.
(8) Congratulations to both of you on selecting for high critical rankings Where the Sidewalk Ends a forgotten Noir par excellence which again teamed ‘Laura’ with the great Dana Andrews. I was also pleased that you included in your selections Way of a Gaucho in which Gene co-starred with Rory Calhoun who was one of my personal fave B movie cowboy actors of the 1950s
(9) Overall your video in conjunction with Bruce’s stats brings out how important (and beautiful) a star in her heyday this now often forgotten actress was. Good show.
Thanks Bob, glad you liked the video, thank you for the kind words. Gene Tierney was mighty purty and very photogenic, lots of interesting photos and posters, I was spoilt for choice. Look at those eyes, even her nose is perfect. I wanted that last close up photo to have an almost hypnotic effect on the viewer, a slow zoom before the fade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7NBRgB8vzE
A closer match with Bruce’s chart than my last video. I think we have the same 4 films in the critics top 5, but Bruce’s sources weren’t as fond of Heaven Can Wait as mine were.
Iconic movies. Hayworth had Gilda and Tierney has Laura, or is her bad girl role in Leave Her to Heaven her signature movie?
1 Possibly Leave Her to heaven is her most praised role – the Oracle could help us there – but Laura is I think her Gilda and it is certainly the one I always think of when Gene comes to mind though I’m biased in a way because Dana Andrews was in it and he was another of my boyhood idols.
2 Her heyday was in the 1940s and her movie career was all but over with Bogie’s Left Hand of God in 1955 following which parts were sporadic and of little career significance. She was I understand plagued by both physical and mental health problems though she was in TV as late as 1980 as a supporting player in Lindsay Wagner’s Scruples. I don’t think that it’s hyperbole to say that there are no actresses in today’s cinema with quite her glamorous pedigree whereas in the classic cinema they seemed to be able to churn them out as if they were off a production line. Maybe their absence today is to do with the fact a different breed of female is required who can swear like a trooper and push sex in your face whereas in Gene’s day that sort of behaviour would not have suited acceptable screen personas though I gather that Crawford for one in private life would have made the trooper’s blush !
Hey Steve….Heaven Can Wait got a Top 10 spot……heck almost a Top 5 spot….so it was close. Thanks for sharing the link.
Hey Bob and Steve…good to know that Steve almost got this one right…lol. I agree 100% Steve’s Posters and my stats go very well together. 🙂
BRUCE:
1 If W of C suggested ‘drivel’ you must retain that heading. Remember the Randolph Scott movie based on the H Rider Haggard novel She [who must be obeyed!]
2 A Walter Pidgeon page would be a marvellous companion-piece to your Greer Garson page
given that Greer and he were a great screen team that seems to be largely overlooked these days; and as Walt worked for MGM for a long time you might be able to give us some more of those very informative Worldwide Grosses. Especially look out for a little-known Pidgeon movie from the early 50s called The Sellout. One of my favourite B movies which probably didn’t earn much but whose earnings would interest me.
3 Your father- in-law’s past cinema connections and W of C’s involvement in projects indicate that the Cogersons collectively might deserve to be regarded as a movie dynasty.
4 One of Bud’s biographers suggests that because of his civil rights activities there was at certain cinemas in the States an unofficial boycott of his films which contributed to some of them flopping in the 60s. Did your father-in-law ever come across anything like that in his time?
5 The 40s and 50s must have been a wonderful time to be directly connected with movie houses. I think that today’s multiplexes whilst good for business have lost the individual charm of the little local picture palaces with which I grew up, just as in many regions ‘on line’ has robbed us of the thrill of walking into a video library and browsing around.
6 Speaking of dynasties did you see on the newsreels father Clooney chaining himself to a building or fence as a political protest and his proud son standing beside him in support? This suggests that George may well come from a ‘caring’ dynasty and explains some of his crusading movies.
7 I have now transcribed into my data base most of the rush work that you did before your hols – so roll on next week !!
BOB
i love the tone of this page, so breezy. thank you for taking a fun hobby (film) and taking the right approach – fun. folks can be far too serious, or perhaps reverential, about movies. i take them seriously and love them, but it is entertainment and, yes, art, but no need for it to be a chore to discuss or celebrate. so thanks.
Hey Mark…thanks for a great comment and a great compliment. I like to think that the one line for each movie is a “snapshot” of how the movie performed…it is not a be all claim that a movie is bad or good….just how it performed statistically. I also say you can sort the movies in way you want…..if you think box office has nothing to do with a movie being good or bad…..then only sort by reviews……others say that critics do not know a good movie…..then sort by how the viewing public responded to a movie. Glad to hear that you feel this pages are fun…..”fun” is the major reason I have been doing these pages for over 5 years now.
FOR CONSIDERATION ON RETURN FROM HOLS
1 The beauty of Cogerson is that it will give out not just stats but various kinds of comment about movies and their stars so that it can be said to cater for people who look for different aspects of information about the film world; and on the law of averages any particular aspect of information that you provide when doing a page should be of interest to a reasonable number of people.
2 Therefore I do not agree with the use of the word ‘drivel’ on your Gene Tierney page and indeed I think that I have seen you use it elsewhere. Having for years before Cogerson struggled to acquire reliable information about box office grosses for classical stars in particular I have first hand experience of how difficult your task is at times and I am very interested in your processes as you have described them above. I am sure that others too are.
3 Maybe this should have bee posted on the Requests page but could I ask you to use different terminology in future when describing the section currently castigated as ‘drivel’ – for example ‘special information’ or ‘research information’? At least think about it.
Hey Bob.
1. Your comment is our philosophy of the page….we try and provide lots of different stats in lots of different categories. Our “key words” for this page are “Best” Gene Tierney Movies, “Worst” Gene Tierny movies, Gene Tierny “Box Office Grosses”, Gene Tierney Movies “Ranked” and Gene Tierny “Oscar” Movies. Those “keywords” are very popular for people searching actors and actresses.
2. Maybe “drivel” is not a good fit for this page…..but sometimes….I tend to go off on a non movie tangent there….on this page…it is actually pretty informative.
3. I will take your renaming suggestions under consideration..though I must say that “drivel” was the way WoC described this part of the page.
So you might be interested in some upcoming projects….working on an interview with my father-in-law. He worked at the Tiger Theater in Auburn Alabama in the 1940s and 1950s…he has some great thoughts of movies and how theater used to operate….then Walter Pidgeon.
As always thanks for taking the time to visit or pages.