Gene Eliza Tierney November 19 1920 November 6 1991 was an American film and stage actress Acclaimed as one of the great beauties of her day she is bestremembered for her performance in the title role of Laura 1944 and her Academy Awardnominated performance for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven 1945 Other notable roles include Martha Strable Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait 1943 Isabel Bradley Maturin in The Razors Edge 1946 Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs Muir 1947 Ann Sutton in Whirlpool 1949 Maggie Carleton McNulty in The Mating Season 1951 and Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God 1955