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Behind the tragic veil of screen goddess GENE TIERNEY lay unmentionable horrors as her life disintegrated into unrelenting despair, madness and death.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, 1920 Gene wanted to be more than a debutante – mere flora and fauna to a successful man’s power and wealth.
Her father, Howard, a wealthy New York insurance broker, obsessed with upward mobility, denied his children nothing -- including the screaming matches of unrelenting hostility between him and his wife. Trapped in a world of hate and anguish, Gene began to retreat to the fantasy stage of her mind.