TCM Tributes Robert Ryan, Gene Tierney

Turner Classic Movies ITS Continues day-long salutes Thurs actors.Acclaimed noted as one of the great beauties of her day, Gene Tierney is best-remembered for her performance in the title Role of Laura (1944) and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Other Notable Roles include Strable Martha Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait (1943), Isabel Bradley Maturin in The Razor's Edge (1946), Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs.. Muir (1947), Ann Sutton in Whirlpool (1949), Maggie Carleton McNulty in The Mating Season (1951) and Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God (1955). Certain of her film-related material and personal papers are contained in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives, Thu wakes Scholars and media experts from around the world May not have full access.Gene Tierney at last in 1991, shortly before her 71st birthday, of emphysema in Houston , Texas. She had started smoking on a screening of her first movie Thurs lower her voice Because "I sound like an angry Minnie Mouse." She Became a heavy smoker, wakes contributed Thurs her death. She is interred next to Lee in the Glenwood Cemetery in Houston, Texas.In 1986, Tierney was honored Alongside actor Gregory Peck with the first Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain for Their body of work.For her Contribution to the motion picture industry, Tierney has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6125 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Gene Tierney, one the most beautiful actresses in movie history, gets the Honor Saturday. And endearing child star Margaret O'Brien receives the Honor Sunday. (Tierney is shown in "The Shanghai Gesture.") Robert Ryan, one of Hollywood's best Actors, is saluted today. The salute includes Ryan "The Set-Up," an excellent boxing drama, at 9:30 tonight, and "The Wild Bunch" at 1:15 am Saturday.