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This is the Hollywood game.
Gene Tierney
split from designer Oleg Cassini and had an affair with young Congressman
John F. Kennedy
.
Later he married
Jacqueline Bouvier
, who had studied like the actress at Miss Porter (Connecticut's elite private school) and, once he became first lady, he listened to Diane Vreeland (editor of 'Harper's Bazaar') so that Cassini was his official 'couturier'.
In that mix of divine magic and human frailty, the Tierney had to deal with her inner demons.
After being hired by Fox, in 1943 she went to the Hollywood Canteen to entertain the American troops.
There the tragedy came in the form of a kiss.
A fan skipped quarantine and got rubella.
A few months later she gave birth to Daria, a premature baby girl weighing less than 1.5 kilos, deaf, nearly blind and with brain problems
.
"She fell mentally ill because she had a broken heart since her fame had indirectly affected her daughter. She couldn't bear it," says Alexandre, her eldest grandson who lives in Ibiza.
The first months of Daria's life were combined with the filming of
'Laura' (Otto Preminger, 1944).
Bipolarity was beginning to play tricks on him.
But in a show of continuing to seduce through 24 images per second, he joined with other great classics of the decade, 'Let heaven judge her' (1945), 'El filo de la navaja' (1946) and 'El fantasma y la Mrs. Muir '(1947).
In 1948 their second daughter, Christina, Alexandre's mother, was born.
The young man surprises us: "No one has inherited the image rights to his films because the studios have them by contract."
Nor can they edit books or films because Oleg's widow (Marianne Nestor), who died in 2006, has not respected his will: "My mother sued the widow and as a result of this
the divorce agreement of the 50s signed between Gene and Oleg. In it, my grandfather left half his fortune to his daughters.
As there is still no final judgment, my mother's inheritance is blocked and we cannot use my grandmother's name and image. "
Under the glamor of his effigy, Tierney suffered for his daughter, for Oleg's infidelities with other luminaries such as Lana Turner, for the betrayal of his father ...
Billionaire producer Howard Hughes paid much of the medical bills,
including the admission to a specialized center for Daria.
Already estranged from her husband, she had an unsuccessful relationship with JFK since as an actress she hindered the clan's political ambitions.
The double standard!
John's father had invested in RKO and was a lover of Gloria Swanson.
After Oleg's divorce in 1953, he
tried to piece together the pieces of his heart with Ali Khan, the ex-husband of Rita Hayworth and son of Aga Khan III
, the leader of the Shiite Ismaili Muslims.
But the link was frustrated.
From there, her career was eclipsed and she suffered hallucinations, she was admitted to sanatoriums,
suffered more than a dozen electroshocks, tried to commit suicide and lost her memory to such an extent that during the filming of 'The Left Hand of God' (1955 ), Humphrey Bogart sneaked his lines
.
In an age when stars were the epitome of perfection, Gene publicly demonstrated that the gear of the star system was not the Holy Grail.
"He was independent, he faced his problems with courage, he never hid the truth - Alexandre wrote - and he was an inspiration for his way of being".
Mental problems were taboo, which is why he got on so well with Kennedy, since his sister Rosemary had suffered a lobotomy.
In 1960 he went through various experiences.
She married oil millionaire W. Howard Lee as soon as he divorced star Hedy Lamarr
;
Ali Khan died in a car accident;
Kennedy was proclaimed president and Cassini officially appointed adviser to the First Lady.
He telegraphed John: "Congratulations. I knew you'd make it."
But he kept quiet that he had voted for Nixon.
He retired in 1964. A pulmonary emphysema killed Gene Tierney in 1991. He was 70 years old.
On the occasion of the centenary of his birth on November 19, the book 'The Universe of Gene Tierney' (Ed. Notorious) has been published
.
His grandson remembers that: "he smoked like a machine, he drank Diet Coke continuously, his voice was taken and his hands were shaking. It was a very different image from that of the young Hollywood beauty. She was a grandmother."
Moral?
Respect the quarantine.
A movie grandmother
When Gene traveled to Paris on the Concorde, he stayed at the Plaza Athénée.
In the city of light, she shone more than on the big screen as her four grandchildren were surrounded: the brothers Delphina (52), Jasmina (50), Alexandre (43) and Cédric (37).
Alexandre was 14 years old when he died, but "I remember that she was very affectionate, she was always kissing and hugging us and, despite the distance, she worried about being present. She called for birthdays, wrote letters and if at Christmas we didn't see each other, He sent us money so we could buy something for him. With my sisters they went shopping and went to nice restaurants. "
They affectionately called her 'Bama'.
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