![]() ![]() Tierney actually published an autobiography in 1978 titled Self-Portrait, which is now out of print, and author Michelle Vogel published a biography from McFarland & Company in 2009. Schiebel: A star biography aims to tell the star’s life story, chronicling the who, what, when, and where. ![]() Tierney’s performance earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, and here was where I saw what an extraordinary talent she was.īellwoar: How would you explain what the difference is between a star study and a biography? That film led me to the Technicolor noir Leave Her to Heaven (1945), which I saw on what was then the American Movie Classics channel. Even in this inauspicious exhibition environment, I was hooked by the low-key, black-and-white cinematography, the mystery, and the dreamy style of it all. I checked out an old VHS copy of Laura and watched it on my thirteen-inch television set. ![]() This was also around the time I was first getting into film-and film history and criticism-and I was trying to track down some of the major examples of film noir, a term I had just learned. I grew up in Peoria, Illinois, and was working at the public library one summer when I was in high school. Will Schiebel: Yes, the film was Otto Preminger’s Laura (1944), and I vividly remember watching it for the first time. ![]()
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