Was Gene Tierney a Republican?

Old school Republicanism was much more represented in vintage Hollywood.

Gene Rayburn sure wasn't. He was quite liberal, and a big support of planned parenthood.

Any reportage on Gene Lockhart’s politics, R3?

R3 Not sure about politics, but he was a religious nutjob, so likely Repub

Why are bitches not answering the question about Gene Tierney? Nobody cares about these lesser Genes.

Gene Autry was a registered Democrat, but considered himself an "independent."

IMDB says she voted for Nixon in 1960, OP.

R7 Thank you for the information! A pity to hear that but I guess Gene wasn't one of the overzealous right-wingers like Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, or Ginger Rogers.

Celeste Holm takes offense that nobody is creating a thread asking about her political affiliation. Leonardo di Caprio still needs to brush up on his movie history.

From IMDB:

[quote]When she saw herself on screen for the first time, she was horrified by her voice ("I sounded like an angry Minnie Mouse"). She began smoking to lower her voice, but it came at a great price--she died of emphysema.

I know it was another era, but couldn't she have just tried voice lessons? She was an actress after all, and one who was fluent in French, no less.

R10 She wasn't the only actress who did that. Linda Darnell also took up smoking to age her voice (especially since she was under 18 when she made her debut as a leading actress).

“Republican” back then meant something different.

R12 Tell that to John Wayne and Lucile Watson.

[quote] “Republican” back then meant something different.

As did "Democrat," with a party of so many then who would be anti-abortion & Reagan Democrats so soon thereafter. The point being that politics is never a straight line from one point to the next.

[quote] "but I guess Gene wasn't one of the overzealous right-wingers like Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, or Ginger Rogers."

Or Buddy Ebsen.

Difficult to think of any topic more urgent in the year 2021.

^or 2022.

Why does OP want to know ? Is it an effort to cancel an actress who died 3 decades ago ? Dig her up and chide her for espousing different politics from the OP? Request reparations from her descendants? Have all of her movies cancelled ?

R7. Abraham Lincoln was a republican too. Does that pain you ? What the Republican Party has become after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 doesn’t have much to do with what it was before then. Many civil rights leaders were sympathetic to Richard Nixon’s first presidential candidacy. In some areas of the country the only way to support civil rights was to vote Republican.

r16, are you okay?

And, R19, due to the then-"Solid South," Republican support in Congress was greater than that of Democrats. A different era, indeed.

R11 And smoking killed her, too. Indirectly.

I have just consulted my copy of Gene’s “Self-Portrait,” which I purchased at Classic Bookstore…apparently during—approximately—March of 1982. Alas it makes little-to-no mention of politics…instead focusing on movies, men, money, mental illness, as well as the tragic Daria. When, at 39, Gene married Howard Lee and became a part of Houston society, she was undoubtedly surrounded by Republicans. She and Howard Lee were also close to republican John Tower, who was a US Senator representing Texas for nearly 25 years.

Republicans and conservatives were fashionable in Hollywood these days. Particularly in Mc Carthy era when moderate left wing leaning or liberalism was viewed as communism and espionage for Russia .

Just the same as today when moderate conservatives are viewed as Magats, racists and...Russian spies.

I've read Gene's memoir and yes, she was a Republican, probably influenced by her family, but this was before the days when the Repugs eventually became rabid and crazy.

As for how the parties have changed, watch - starting at 13:50 - the reaction to then-Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen's 1967 WML appearance, & try to imagine the reaction his current successor, Mitch McConnell, would have today in front of an audience of NYC denizens.

Anyone know what Gene's opinion on homosexuality was? Was she homophobic? I hope not.

She was married to a rich Texan, so yes.