Gene Tierney News

Elsewhere here in DO you can read about this weekend's exciting premiere of Miriam Center's play "Johnny & Me!", and there are other chances this weekend for those in need of a Mercer fix.

MADMAN has recently released three fine films noirs from director Otto Preminger that were made for Fox in the 1940s and early 1950s.

And she's too good for Thunder Birds , a lustrous WWII propaganda brochure directed by William Wellman , whose mind must have been mercifully elsewhere during the cornball scenes of comedy relief that might have been storyboarded on bubblegum wrappers.

YOUR paper recently published an article on a film that was being made around the Weston area.

Her design legacy includes Gene Tierney's costumes in Laura and the first woman's jumpsuit.

In Section: ON SCREEN >> Posted By: Mark Peikert Despite some fervent proselytizing from no less than Martin Scorsese, 1945's Leave Her to Heaven still lacks the cult following the film so richly deserves.

NewYorkology film columnist Tim McGonagle was orphaned in a revival theater in Boston, Mass.

JOHN M. Stahl's masterful "Leave Her to Heaven" sounds like a contradiction in terms - a film noir in eye-popping Technicolor, with its most chilling scene taking place not in a dimly lit back alley but on a ...

Gene Tierney was the ultimate Hollywood femme fatale. One glimpse of her portrait was enough to bewitch Dana Andrews' hard-boiled police detective in Otto Preminger's 1944 classic Laura .

Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.

FRIDAY: Inauguration's over, people, and D.C. is back to being its old, boring self.

One of the better of Otto Preminger's sprawling adaptations of big, fat, multi-character, best-selling novels, this one Allen Drury's melodramatic civics lesson on cut-throat politics in D.C. The large cast -- ...

Reading about Otto Preminger's 1949 film version of the Oscar Wilde play Lady Windermere's Fan , here shortened to just The Fan, you'll find little praise and a near consensus that Preminger, also the producer, ...

Two classics of literature, Wuthering Heights and The Count of Monte Cristo are enjoyable to the misanthrope for completely different reasons.