Daria cassini biography

Daria Cassini ended her journey on September 11, 2010 just prior to her 67th birthday, October 15th.
Antoinette Daria Cassini was born prematurely in Washington, DC, weighing three pounds two ounces (1.4 kg) and requiring a total blood transfusion.
When Daria Cassini was born in 1943, she was deaf and severely mentally handicapped.

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Gene Tierney

American actress (1920–1991)

Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991)^[1] was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed for her great beauty, she became established as a leading lady.^[2]^[3] She was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film Laura (1944), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven (1945).^[4]^[5]

Tierney's other roles include Martha Strable 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), Mary Bristol in Night and the City (1950), Maggie Carleton McNulty in The Mating Season (1951), and Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God (1955).

Early life

Gene Eliza Tierney was born on November 19, 1920, in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Howard Sherwood Tierney and Belle Lavinia Taylor. She was named after a beloved uncle, who died young.^[4

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OVER THE TITLES Oleg Cassini and Grace Kelly at the premiere of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, 1954—two years before she married Prince Rainier. Cassini later said, “Grace told me she would rather be a princess than a countess.”

From Bettmann/Corbis; digital colorization by Lorna Clark.

Six weeks before his death, on March 17, 2006, at age 92, the designer Oleg Cassini made his final public appearance, at a design-awards show at New York’s Whitney Museum. Cassini had always flaunted his advantages. In the 1940s he married Gene Tierney, one of Hollywood’s most beautiful actresses; in the 50s he was engaged to Grace Kelly; and in the 60s he dressed First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. That night at the Whitney, he was with the former supermodel Carol Alt, 46 years his junior, who was swathed in white fur and spilling out of her dress. For one last time, Cassini was playing the suave, Continental bon vivant sportsman and design innovator who had conquered every woman he ever wanted, from Anita Ekberg to Marilyn Monroe. The grandson of a Russian-Italian count who was the last Russian c

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The True and Tragic Life Story ofHollywood Beauty Gene Tierney

You can’t help but be moved by the tragic life of actress Gene Tierney. Though endowed with astonishing beauty and talent that won her early fame, a series of misfortunes would eventually bring her to the brink of suicide.

The daughter of a successful insurance broker, Gene had a privileged upbringing. By the time she reached her late teens, she was already a head-turner pursuing an acting career. Starting on Broadway, she was soon spotted by Hollywood mogul Darryl Zanuck, who put her under contract to Twentieth Century Fox.

At twenty, she had her first featured role, in Fritz Lang’s “The Return Of Frank James” (1940). She seemed to jump right off the screen. By 1943, she was co-starring opposite Don Ameche in Ernst Lubitsch’s “Heaven Can Wait.”

The following year brought the role with which she’d become most identified: Otto Preminger’s “Laura,” still one of the greatest mysteries ever filmed, had Gene playing a gorgeous young career