Word: genes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...framework of security that most women can only dream of-striking beauty, social position, wealth and stardom in Hollywood. Yet in 1954 Cinemactress Gene Tierney went to pieces, and to a mental institution. Last week, back in Hollywood at last, she talked freely of the pressures that broke her down and of the heartening treatment that led to recovery. See MEDICINE, Reborn Star...
...north in Ludington, Mich., Gene and Pauline Skerbeck were toughing it out with their Sunday school (clean, no girlie shows, no flatties). The weather was bringing in bloomers, and though Pauline burned blessed palm leaves in her trailer, the red ones were few and far between. A strip act might have pulled more of a crowd, but Pauline was against it. "We're Catholics, you see. I always tell people that ask where the girl show is that they should save their $1.50 and get their wives to take off their clothes and dance around nude at home...
...Sunday school, Gene Skerbeck has the last word: "It used to be that you could take a show into the back country and those people had never seen anything like it. But they've all seen it on TV now. The rubes and the suckers are playing golf now. Oh, I don't say there aren't some rubes left, but where they are I don't know. Sometimes I think the only real suckers left are in the business...
Staring carefully at her face in the mirror, smoothing the glossy black hair and shading the lids above expressive grey-green eyes, the coolly beautiful woman saw that she was still as the world once knew her. Last week Cinemactress Gene Tierney was back in a Hollywood dressing room-back from a mental institution. Was that foreboding phrase a shame to hide? Not a bit. To ex-Patient Tierney, 37, Topeka's famed Menninger Clinic was an exultant experience...
Breezy Rise. In 1954, when she suddenly fled Hollywood after starring in 30 major movies since 1940, it hardly seemed possible that glittering Gene Tierney might be "broken." Born well to do, the daughter of a prosperous Manhattan insurance broker with an estate in Connecticut's fashionable Fairfield County, her rise was a breeze. But behind the beauty and breeding, behind the mask of confidence, she hid too much to handle alone. There was quite...