There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

In 1962 20th Century Fox announced Tierney would play the lead role in Return to Peyton Place but Gene Tierney became pregnant and dropped out of the project. "
"I do not recall spending long hours in a mirror loving my reflection. Now maybe they'll understand why scriptwriters have me go off the deep end every time I'm in the same picture as her.

Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19 1920 – November 6 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Other notable roles include Martha Strable Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait (1943) Isabel Bradley Maturin in The Razor's Edge (1946) Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. are contained in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives to which scholars media experts and public from around the world may have full access.