Tierney and Fonda


I wish Tierney and Fonda made more films together they have great chemistry. The Return of Frank James and Advise and Consent are the two others. Tierney stated Return of Frank James it was her first movie and she was terrible thank god it made money, and let her go on to other roles.

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Chances are if Henry Fonda didn't take a leave of absence into World War II, he and Gene Tierney might have worked together on a more frequent level. On the other hand, Fonda wouldn't have worked out in the Dana Andrews role in Tierney's most acclaimed movie, LAURA (1944) nor in A BELL FOR ADANO (1945), which went to John Hodiak. However, I can see him in the Cornel Wilde role in Tierney's Academy Award nominated performance in LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945). For Fonda starrers, I can see Tierney in the title role of MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946), but in spite of the title role, it wasn't big enough to award an already accomplished actress as Tierney, so the role went to Cathy Downs, whose career never achieved the stardom it might have had, in spite the film's success. Fonda's career lasted longer than Tierney's, in fact, through the time of his death in 1982. Tierney retired in 1955, made a couple of comebacks in the 1960s, then retired again. One can imagine the roles she would have played and accomplished had she continued to work through the '70s. Yes, Fonda and Tierney worked together in three movies, a western, a comedy and a political drama, the latter which didn't put them together as much as they did in the 1940s. The 1960s was a whole new era for a whole new generation, so Fonda and Tierney starring material in the 60s would be unlikely, though possible for YOURS MINE AND OURS (1968) since Tierney was much younger than Lucille Ball, though Ball's reputation as the Queen of Television on the movie screen would prove to be more box office than Tierney's passing parade. At least Fonda and Tierney worked together, three times in fact, the same amount of times she did opposite 20th Century-Fox's top leading man, Tyrone Power.

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Gene Tierney and Henry Fonda sure make one heck of a fine looking couple in this movie.


“There is NO such thing as a free lunch.” - Milton Friedman

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They sure did. This film is one of my favorite little obscure film gems not on DVD

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