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Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
Gene Tierney
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Gene Tierney
Age: 70 †
Born: 1920
Born: November 19
Died: 1991
Died: November 6
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Film Actor
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Brooklyn
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Gene Eliza Tierney
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