Gene Tierney - Leave Her to Heaven (1945) (HD)

[NellyNutmeg]

@gnsback, Gene Tierney said she started smoking to deepen her voice, It was really high-pitched. I guess it was important in '40s movies for women to have deep/mature voices.

[alfsal67]

@NellyNutmeg I suppose it was, both Lauren Bacall and Lizabeth Scott had quite husky voices, not sure if they did anything to enhance it though. I would say Gene had a very pleasant voice over all.

[HAPPYTHELEAF]

Remembering GENE today 6/11/91 RIP

[leafyutube]

Great movie. Gene Tierney was a bad ass bitch in this one. haha

[JubalCalif]

What gorgeous Technicolor photography this movie had! And the lovely & talented Gene Tierney's best performance. The drowning scene (one of the most chilling scenes in cinema) was filmed in Calif's Sierra Nevada mountains at Bass Lake. How sad that poor Ms Tierney suffered so badly from mental illness later in her career. At least her last marriage was long & happy. Always one of my all time favorite movie stars. THANKS so much for posting this fascinating train scene from this Fox classic!

[gnsback]

Forgot to mention that since the theme of this was about a possessive wife; in ancient times a newlywed couple used to customarily take up to 2 years for a honeymoon, in order to get to know one another. In some countries the couple would go away, remaining undisturbed by those they knew. Nowadays we have divorce, divorce, because they don't do much of that getting to know one another uninterferedwith. People get divorced and then finally get to know their x's.

[gnsback]

Trains and Gene Tierney! What more could a guy ask for? Gene was at her prettiest about when this was made. The years of cigarette smoking had not caught up with her yet. And yes, she was possibly the most beautiful woman in the world, at least to Daryl Zanuck, and lots of us. Only saw her once in person at across a lobby and didn't even know how famous she was. Someone had to tell me who she was. They were flabbergasted and in awe to see her coming to lunch that day.

[alfsal67]

@gnsback Seeing her in person, wow that's must be a swell memory.

I just recently discovered her, so I still have many more films with her to enjoy, for the first time.

I will probably add some more highlights of her from other movies later.

[jgg59]

@alfsal67 Actually the bi-polar and shock treatments took there toll. Not that the smoking helped.

[gnsback]

Yes, it is interesting that some other stars suffered the same approximate symptoms beginning about that post war time, and some of them had also dated J.F.K. . I will always wonder if O.N.I., Office of Naval Intelligence was checking on his liasons with early forms of microwave surveillance and maybe it goofed a lot of 'targets' up. Surveillance victims get a lot more electromagnetic saturation than non surveillance citizens.