![]() ![]() Propriety must have discouraged her from sharing, more and in ""My Favorite Role"" as the real-life wife of ""solid citizen"" Howard Lee, she's as proper as ever. Gene Tierney Self-Portrait Hardcover Apby Gene Tierney (Author), Mickey Herskowitz (Collaborator) 112 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 30.69 Other used and collectible from 30.69 Mass Market Paperback 41.93 Other used and collectible from 15. ![]() She praises its therapeutic environment and inveighs against the shock-treatments to which she was subjected elsewhere her recoveryprocess and reflections on a condition that she now attributes in large part to chemical predisposition are sources worth her sharing. ![]() Escapes into sleep and delusion preceded the trip to window-ledge (the only scene exploited here, for dramatic opening effect) that led to her hospitalization and eventual mendlng at the Menninger Clinic. Hollywood hoopla is subsidiary to Gene Tierney's evergracious but disorderly account of her disappointments: in her father, for moral and financial betrayal in her rocky marriage to Oleg Cassini in ""the unsound birth"" of their retarded daughter in liaisons with Aly Khan and Jack Kennedy. The Fox girl so prized because she didn't make waves was to find herself ""drowning""-mentally ill-but until she acknowledged her ""weakness"" years later, it was business as usual, degeneratively. Gene Tierney, conventional to a fault, ""wanted everything to be nice""-innocently, during her privileged childhood and early Broadway and Hollywood breaks then desperately, as she became the victim of feelings she couldn't confront. Caution: here be spoilers for the novel The Mirror Crackd from side to side, and its adaptations. ![]()
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