I've watched very many of these shows now (thank you crepehanger47!) and I've come up wit a list of my favourite women. Those who not only looked good but were charming, intelligent and funny too. Anyone like to share their own list?
1. Hedy Lamaar
2. Ava Gardner
3. Debbie Reynolds
4. Jeanne Crane (although I don't share her political outlook)
5. Eva Marie Saint
6. Lee Remick
7. Gene Tierney
8. Linda Darnell
Not too many like these around now, or am I just a grumpy old man??
I've watched very many of these shows now (thank you NorbertR33!) and I've come up wit a list of my favourite women. Those who not only looked good but were charming, intelligent and funny too. Anyone like to share their own list?
1. Hedy Lamaar
2. Ava Gardner
3. Debbie Reynolds
4. Jeanne Crane (although I don't share her political outlook)
5. Eva Marie Saint
6. Lee Remick
7. Gene Tierney
These gracious ladies are in no particular order. I love them all!
Today is Genes birthday and I am watching all the wonderful tributes to Gene that have been uploaded since I first uploaded my own. The first youtubers' I found to upload any tributes to Gene where Mondbruder and Shanghibenny and thanks to them so did I,and now there are so many it is wonderful to see.
@SonjaHenieFilmFan - Ernie was a fan and contributor to Mad Magazine in the 50's. Whenever the writers needed a character name in one of their strips, they came up with "Melvin" or "Howard" Koznofsky.
Gene Tierney was one of the most beautiful women who ever lived...Personally, I think Elyse Knox was more beautiful, though...Gene's facial bone structure was perfect.
@pagalley1 They were both very beautiful women, I agree, and very hard to separate. I just learned from Wikipedia that Elyse died this year (2012). Very, very few of these stellar actresses are still with us. Lovely to be reminded of them here.
@HS22181 Because she said "no"? Well, she's right, she's not carnivorous, human are omnivores. Unless "carnivorous" has a secret definition I don't get :)
@planetrockford well actually, Marilyn had several miscarriages, not abortions. She really did want children. And she was a great actress, she just wasn't recognized for her talent because everyone wanted the dumb blonde Marilyn. Don't blame Marilyn for the mistakes of others. She actually did fight for better roles and for a happy love life.
@chilvari my teacher played a film for us in class and i couldnt help but to notice her beauty! i was like soooo distracted by it the entire movie!! lol im a female and my jaw was dropped to the floor. i dont generally see women this pretty/beautiful/gorgeous/enigmatic/stunning in my everyday life lol! im gonna cry lol.
Did she have a rough life? I've never known her life outside of the role she played in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. Mrs.Muir and Capt. Greg- what a lovely couple! That's all I've ever seen her in. You've peaked my curiosity about her sad life though...does she have an autobio?
Incredibly, she was every bit as beautiful, graceful and charming in real life as she was in her movies. Other stars seem more ordinary when they're just being themselves. But not Gene. She was always the most marvelous mystery.
@Bombeni I think she's more beautiful than Marilyn 1) because her face is so unique but mostly because 2) she always seemed so terribly mysterious, unlike Marilyn, whom we know absolutely everything about. We even know the person behind the person.
gene has the most remarkable angles to her lovely face. she's certainly one-of-a-kind...i always find it difficult to picture her in my mind for some reason...
I'm female, I watched the classic Hollywood movies back in the 60's and 70's when I was growing up and really got hooked. I'm not gay by any means, but I always thought Gene T was the most beautiful woman I ever saw; I even thought her more beautiful than Marilyn (just barely though) -- there was something more quirky about her beauty and thus more intriguing.
Gene was one of my all time favorite screen godesses. What a treat to see her on this show. Who can forget her as "Laura"? How sad that later in life she was afflicted horribly with mental illness. Truly one of the great screen beauties...and a gifted actress. THANKS a million for sharing this with us!!!
If you've seen 'Laura" 8 times, that's proof positive that you're a person of good taste & rare distinction, Major! Thanks for your comment, fellow fan of the late great Ms Tierney!! :)
I agree but she had a tragic life. One of her fans unknowningly infected with Rubella hugged her and Gene was pregnant at the time and her baby ended up born blind and retarted.
Actually, years later Gene met a woman who said she had deliberately left quarantine for rubella to meet her, infecting not only Tierney and her baby but who knows who else who she encountered. Really tragic.
I just ran "Laura" on the big screen at home. Miss Tierney is a classic. She rests here in Houston, in Glenwood Cemetery, next to her husband, just a few paces away from Howard Hughes.
Wow. Gene looks even more beautiful in this clip than she does in most of her classic films. I think it was Zanuck who described her as the most beautiful actress ever to appear in films and I think he may well have a point! Thanks for posting.
i've always been impressed with how gene carries herself...she MOVES so beautifully...watch her WALK down the staircase to greet Tyrone Power in THE RAZOR'S EDGE sometime.
I agree with you, VTMCOmpany, but I'm reminded of Barbara Stanwyck who had a very similiar poise. Of course Stanwyck had a dance background, and Gene Tierney is effortlessly graceful.
I wonder what it was that brought Gene back to New York,its possible to see the pain in Genes expressions even though it is good to see Gene laugh so naturally, and not covered in make up Gene was painfully beautiful.
Her autobiography is fascinating, she led a charmed childhood but things got tougher as she got older, she had 2 children with Oleg Cassini (one was retarded, I think still alive), she had a doomed romance with JFK when he was just starting his political career, she had a nervous breakdown. But Politeama is right, Gene was a class act. Loved her in "Leave Her To Heaven," and "Laura."
A gorgeous lady with a most unhappy life that she didn't deserve. I also read her memoirs and felt sad for her. But she was a class act all the way. She was always beautiful and shy. It is a pity that Hollywood had forgotten these stars and is destroying what these great artists built. Now vulgarity reigns. Gene Tierney a legend and an icon of the good times in Hollywood.
All true. You can see the pain in her smile on this show. God how I feel for her. But I wonder, is that only because she suffered or also because she was gorgeous? Lots of people, actors or not, talented or not, good looking or not, have suffered. She probably was sick and tired of being complemented for her beauty.
I agree with you. And those women beside being very beautiful and have class were very smart (there were some exceptions). Miss Tierney was beautiful and smart and so were Miss Hedy Lamarr, Ingried Bergman, Audey Hepburn, Irenne Dunne, etc. Nowadays the brain is gone, the class is gone, and the look is cheap (tattoos, profanity, lack of manners, etc.). Those golden years of Hollywood are totally gone and it is so refreshing to watch these clips here. Thank you NorbertR33 for sharing this gem.
Politeama; The stars you mention were talented BUT with the exception of Hedy Lamarr the rest were less than beautiful. You failed to mention the beautiful red-heads Rhoda Fleming, Arlene Dahl, Maureen O'Hara, Jeanne Crain, Rita Hayworth. The blonds as far as beauty go's but not as talented were Anita Eckberg, Mansfield, Monroe, L.Turner,Kim Novak. Brunettes Ava Gardner, Debra Paget, Sophia Loren. The 50's and 60's had them all .Today were stuck with fakes Pam Anderson and Jolie, a Shame indeed.
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In My Opinion G.Tierney was very very pretty just less than beautiful, we all have are own opinions let's respect each others . We left out Liz Taylor and Vivian Leigh shame on us.
@dtw1958 Her first born daughter was born severly mentally retarded. A "fan" who was sick with German Measles, had exposed Gene to the disease during her pregnancy. Gene did find more happiness later in life, after leaving the motion picture industry.
GSN rebroadcast this 1957 episode on 19 November 2008. It featured a highly unusual confrontation between Arlene Francis and John Daly over his definitions / interpretation of hog breeds involved in a game with a female North Carolina hog breeder. "Pigs is pigs!" Francis insisted, which isn't necessarily true in the world of hogs.
Understandable here why G-T auditioned Kovacs as a possible 4th panelist. Bright and funny so so surreal.
a truely beautiful legend inside and out she had a tough time sad her book makes me cry but how strong she was shows your a legend gene and now and always a true star xoox catt
I should point out that Gene Tierney,for me ,is untouchable as my favourite.The others were
not listed in any order.I could have added more.I hope this does not lead to the usual arguments
that we see resulting from such lists.
Regards.
northernoir 1 day ago
My favourites.Gene Tierney,Hedy Lamar,Ava Gardner,Lee Remick,Tuesday Weld,Martha Hyer,Maureen O'Hara.Linda Darnell,Joan Dru,Natalie Wood.
northernoir 1 day ago
I've watched very many of these shows now (thank you crepehanger47!) and I've come up wit a list of my favourite women. Those who not only looked good but were charming, intelligent and funny too. Anyone like to share their own list?
1. Hedy Lamaar
2. Ava Gardner
3. Debbie Reynolds
4. Jeanne Crane (although I don't share her political outlook)
5. Eva Marie Saint
6. Lee Remick
7. Gene Tierney
8. Linda Darnell
Not too many like these around now, or am I just a grumpy old man??
ComposerInUK 3 days ago
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I've watched very many of these shows now (thank you NorbertR33!) and I've come up wit a list of my favourite women. Those who not only looked good but were charming, intelligent and funny too. Anyone like to share their own list?
1. Hedy Lamaar
2. Ava Gardner
3. Debbie Reynolds
4. Jeanne Crane (although I don't share her political outlook)
5. Eva Marie Saint
6. Lee Remick
7. Gene Tierney
These gracious ladies are in no particular order. I love them all!
ComposerInUK 3 days ago
Easily the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.We were blessed to have known her.
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Today is Genes birthday and I am watching all the wonderful tributes to Gene that have been uploaded since I first uploaded my own. The first youtubers' I found to upload any tributes to Gene where Mondbruder and Shanghibenny and thanks to them so did I,and now there are so many it is wonderful to see.
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Remembering GENE today 6/11/91 RIP
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sul·try/ˈsəltrē/
Adjective: (of a person, esp. a woman) Attractive in a way that suggests a passionate nature.
ProSportsForums 4 months ago
Who Is the Howard L "Kivnasky" mentioned around 2:18? Thanks!
SonjaHenieFilmFan 4 months ago
@SonjaHenieFilmFan - Ernie was a fan and contributor to Mad Magazine in the 50's. Whenever the writers needed a character name in one of their strips, they came up with "Melvin" or "Howard" Koznofsky.
rolko52 2 months ago
"All I can think of is Myrna Loy"-"I've thought of her at times" :0)
pildskadden 4 months ago
stunning actress, her with Rex Harrison in Mrs Muir' Ghost still makes me weep.
The best actress beauty from US to me.
yippitydodah 7 months ago
so pretty
GraniteQuarrier 8 months ago
Gene Tierney was one of the most beautiful women who ever lived...Personally, I think Elyse Knox was more beautiful, though...Gene's facial bone structure was perfect.
pagalley1 8 months ago
@pagalley1 They were both very beautiful women, I agree, and very hard to separate. I just learned from Wikipedia that Elyse died this year (2012). Very, very few of these stellar actresses are still with us. Lovely to be reminded of them here.
ComposerInUK 3 days ago
@ComposerInUK Didn't realize Elyse died...I'll have to check up on that.
pagalley1 19 hours ago
Ernie Kovacs looks like Gomez Addams from the Addams Family.
genesislover 8 months ago
She didn’t know the definition of carnivorous.
HS22181 9 months ago
@HS22181 Because she said "no"? Well, she's right, she's not carnivorous, human are omnivores. Unless "carnivorous" has a secret definition I don't get :)
0AnCla0 9 months ago 3
@0AnCla0 *humans*
0AnCla0 8 months ago
@0AnCla0 meat eater
hippyblood4 5 months ago
"all i can think of is Myrna Loy."
"i've thought of her at times."
hahaha.
itsbrittany0423 9 months ago
After the show, John Daly went dinky-down on Gene Tierney.
OH YEAH!
62easthar62 9 months ago
She was ravishingly beautiful.
lorrainewands 9 months ago
legend!
dermott37 11 months ago
Hate me if you will for saying this but I couldn't help but notice that Megan Fox resembles Gene Tierney a little bit... Just my opinion :)
mrtigerucantfly 11 months ago
@mrtigerucantfly I think she looks like Geena Davis.
genesislover 8 months ago
@genesislover I think your right.....
lauderdale8747 6 months ago
wow- she looks lovely, but omgosh, she looks soooo sad. Almost hard to watch! Love Gene anyway!!!!!!!!!!
1choppedliver 1 year ago
Gene Tierney is the most beautiful woman I have ever laid eyes on...prettier than Marilyn. And a very talented actress, I adore her movies.
chilvari 1 year ago
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planetrockford 1 year ago
@planetrockford well actually, Marilyn had several miscarriages, not abortions. She really did want children. And she was a great actress, she just wasn't recognized for her talent because everyone wanted the dumb blonde Marilyn. Don't blame Marilyn for the mistakes of others. She actually did fight for better roles and for a happy love life.
chilvari 1 year ago
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planetrockford 1 year ago
@chilvari my teacher played a film for us in class and i couldnt help but to notice her beauty! i was like soooo distracted by it the entire movie!! lol im a female and my jaw was dropped to the floor. i dont generally see women this pretty/beautiful/gorgeous/enigmatic/stunning in my everyday life lol! im gonna cry lol.
ummmiloveu 1 year ago
Sexiest overbite ever :-)
Falcon7001 1 year ago
Beautiful.
phil123711 1 year ago
you can see the mental issues if you watch closely
is Laura on you tube?
ednuk 1 year ago
@ednuk
a little insensitive there!
jsepa2ni1 1 year ago
@ednuk yes and hindsight is 20/20
robi2000 1 year ago
Her performance in "Leave her to heaven" was outstanding!
Being beautiful is an asset to a woman, but can also be their downfall.
franklindavid 1 year ago
Breathtakingly gorgeous woman with all the refined and innocent/shy grace still alive in her time. And a fabulous actor as well.
How sad that her life was so badly ruined by her father, the men she associated with, and Hollywood's star system.
And how glorious that she battled her way back to a happy and meaningful life.
FnordicQueen 1 year ago 3
Did she have a rough life? I've never known her life outside of the role she played in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. Mrs.Muir and Capt. Greg- what a lovely couple! That's all I've ever seen her in. You've peaked my curiosity about her sad life though...does she have an autobio?
OnCloudNine62 1 year ago
@OnCloudNine62 Yes Gene did write a book on her life titled ''Self Portrait'' there is also an biography by Michelle Vogel.
HAPPYTHELEAF 1 year ago
Ms. Tierney was such a beautiful & talented actress, but was such a tortured soul.
rickram1961 1 year ago
Incredibly, she was every bit as beautiful, graceful and charming in real life as she was in her movies. Other stars seem more ordinary when they're just being themselves. But not Gene. She was always the most marvelous mystery.
4Topwood 1 year ago 2
Watch Leave Her to Heaven. I camera has never filmed a woman more beautifully.
zamusicza 1 year ago
@zamusicza Right, she look amazing there!!!
gianca60 1 year ago
@Bombeni I think she's more beautiful than Marilyn 1) because her face is so unique but mostly because 2) she always seemed so terribly mysterious, unlike Marilyn, whom we know absolutely everything about. We even know the person behind the person.
ashleyg325 1 year ago
gene has the most remarkable angles to her lovely face. she's certainly one-of-a-kind...i always find it difficult to picture her in my mind for some reason...
VTMCompany 1 year ago
I'm female, I watched the classic Hollywood movies back in the 60's and 70's when I was growing up and really got hooked. I'm not gay by any means, but I always thought Gene T was the most beautiful woman I ever saw; I even thought her more beautiful than Marilyn (just barely though) -- there was something more quirky about her beauty and thus more intriguing.
Bombeni 1 year ago
sorry.... what year was thiss??
satinchic22 1 year ago
So sad-all of these folks are gone. i remember when they were all alive-you'd see them on TV-Gene Tierney too.
SenorZorrozzz 1 year ago
Lucia! The beautiful enigmatic Mrs. Lucy Muir!
atta boy Ernie...
FriendofRamblinJack 1 year ago
Gene was one of my all time favorite screen godesses. What a treat to see her on this show. Who can forget her as "Laura"? How sad that later in life she was afflicted horribly with mental illness. Truly one of the great screen beauties...and a gifted actress. THANKS a million for sharing this with us!!!
JubalCalif 2 years ago 6
@JubalCalif Actully by this time she was in the mist of her mental illness.
jgg59 2 years ago
I've seen "Laura" eight times---love it.
9TheMajor 2 years ago
@9TheMajor
If you've seen 'Laura" 8 times, that's proof positive that you're a person of good taste & rare distinction, Major! Thanks for your comment, fellow fan of the late great Ms Tierney!! :)
JubalCalif 2 years ago
I loved Gene Tierney in "Laura" and "The Ghost and Mrs.Muir"... two classics from the golden age of dramatic film making.
Titan752 2 years ago 3
Thank you martikkeh--I did not know. Something that sorrowful would surely take a toll.
ipmoic 2 years ago
I've never really heard of her before, but I saw a picture of her in an old magazine and though she was very pretty so I looked her up :)
KaseyluvsJamesDean 2 years ago
I love seeing her, but I don't think she looks well, which is upsetting.
She was so specially beautiful. Today, they would have made her wear braces which would have ruined her delightful overbite.
ipmoic 2 years ago
I agree but she had a tragic life. One of her fans unknowningly infected with Rubella hugged her and Gene was pregnant at the time and her baby ended up born blind and retarted.
martikkeh 2 years ago
Actually, years later Gene met a woman who said she had deliberately left quarantine for rubella to meet her, infecting not only Tierney and her baby but who knows who else who she encountered. Really tragic.
hkk321 2 years ago
Gene is radiant inspite of her inner turmoil.
shanghaibenny2 2 years ago 2
I just ran "Laura" on the big screen at home. Miss Tierney is a classic. She rests here in Houston, in Glenwood Cemetery, next to her husband, just a few paces away from Howard Hughes.
tallpaul521 2 years ago 2
Wow. Gene looks even more beautiful in this clip than she does in most of her classic films. I think it was Zanuck who described her as the most beautiful actress ever to appear in films and I think he may well have a point! Thanks for posting.
vonkvetch 2 years ago 4
i've always been impressed with how gene carries herself...she MOVES so beautifully...watch her WALK down the staircase to greet Tyrone Power in THE RAZOR'S EDGE sometime.
VTMCompany 2 years ago 2
I agree with you, VTMCOmpany, but I'm reminded of Barbara Stanwyck who had a very similiar poise. Of course Stanwyck had a dance background, and Gene Tierney is effortlessly graceful.
CDU916 2 years ago
I wonder what it was that brought Gene back to New York,its possible to see the pain in Genes expressions even though it is good to see Gene laugh so naturally, and not covered in make up Gene was painfully beautiful.
HAPPYTHELEAF 2 years ago 3
Her autobiography is fascinating, she led a charmed childhood but things got tougher as she got older, she had 2 children with Oleg Cassini (one was retarded, I think still alive), she had a doomed romance with JFK when he was just starting his political career, she had a nervous breakdown. But Politeama is right, Gene was a class act. Loved her in "Leave Her To Heaven," and "Laura."
wlhardy 2 years ago
August '57, just 4 months before she was institutionalized and subjected to massive shock treatments.
torchkit 2 years ago
A gorgeous lady with a most unhappy life that she didn't deserve. I also read her memoirs and felt sad for her. But she was a class act all the way. She was always beautiful and shy. It is a pity that Hollywood had forgotten these stars and is destroying what these great artists built. Now vulgarity reigns. Gene Tierney a legend and an icon of the good times in Hollywood.
Politeama 2 years ago 38
All true. You can see the pain in her smile on this show. God how I feel for her. But I wonder, is that only because she suffered or also because she was gorgeous? Lots of people, actors or not, talented or not, good looking or not, have suffered. She probably was sick and tired of being complemented for her beauty.
Boudosaved 2 years ago
I agree with you. And those women beside being very beautiful and have class were very smart (there were some exceptions). Miss Tierney was beautiful and smart and so were Miss Hedy Lamarr, Ingried Bergman, Audey Hepburn, Irenne Dunne, etc. Nowadays the brain is gone, the class is gone, and the look is cheap (tattoos, profanity, lack of manners, etc.). Those golden years of Hollywood are totally gone and it is so refreshing to watch these clips here. Thank you NorbertR33 for sharing this gem.
Politeama 2 years ago 4
Politeama; The stars you mention were talented BUT with the exception of Hedy Lamarr the rest were less than beautiful. You failed to mention the beautiful red-heads Rhoda Fleming, Arlene Dahl, Maureen O'Hara, Jeanne Crain, Rita Hayworth. The blonds as far as beauty go's but not as talented were Anita Eckberg, Mansfield, Monroe, L.Turner,Kim Novak. Brunettes Ava Gardner, Debra Paget, Sophia Loren. The 50's and 60's had them all .Today were stuck with fakes Pam Anderson and Jolie, a Shame indeed.
Etnalleb 2 years ago
Gene Tierney was less than beautiful?
jgg59 2 years ago
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In My Opinion G.Tierney was very very pretty just less than beautiful, we all have are own opinions let's respect each others . We left out Liz Taylor and Vivian Leigh shame on us.
Etnalleb 2 years ago
That's like saying that Wilt Chamberlain was less than tall. But I respect your right to say so.
oldaardvark 2 years ago
@Politeama What was it that caused her life to be 'unhappy'?
dtw1958 7 months ago
@dtw1958 Her first born daughter was born severly mentally retarded. A "fan" who was sick with German Measles, had exposed Gene to the disease during her pregnancy. Gene did find more happiness later in life, after leaving the motion picture industry.
trschaefer 7 months ago
@Politeama
Without a doubt...I agree with every word...
deetjay1 3 weeks ago
what year?
ConfusedSponge 3 years ago
Miss Tierney rests in peace here in Houston, in the Glenwood Cemetary, a few steps from Howard Hughes.
A classy lady forever remembered as "Laura".
martinimerlin 3 years ago
beautiful woman
blancface 3 years ago
she didn't even seem to need make-up!
Muffy2314 3 years ago 2
Tierney is certainly a gorgeous carnovore.
GSN rebroadcast this 1957 episode on 19 November 2008. It featured a highly unusual confrontation between Arlene Francis and John Daly over his definitions / interpretation of hog breeds involved in a game with a female North Carolina hog breeder. "Pigs is pigs!" Francis insisted, which isn't necessarily true in the world of hogs.
Understandable here why G-T auditioned Kovacs as a possible 4th panelist. Bright and funny so so surreal.
soulierinvestments 3 years ago
a truely beautiful legend inside and out she had a tough time sad her book makes me cry but how strong she was shows your a legend gene and now and always a true star xoox catt
26mae1987 3 years ago 16
What is this mystery they're talking about?
TheMerryArtist 3 years ago
Laura
pixiedust222222 3 years ago 2
They guess who the guest is. If referring to her most famous role Laura.
jgg59 3 years ago