Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

During the filming of The Left Hand of God ( 1955 ), he noticed his co-star Gene Tierney having a hard time remembering her lines and also behaving oddly.

* 1920 – Gene Tierney, American actress ( d. 1991 )

* The Razor's Edge ( 1946 ) featuring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney.

* Gene Tierney

* November 6 – Gene Tierney, American actress ( b. 1920 )

Tracy followed it with Plymouth Adventure ( 1952 ), a historical drama set abroad the Mayflower, co-starring Gene Tierney.

" The infidelity continued, including an affair with Gene Tierney during the making of Plymouth Adventure in 1952.

Fonda starred in The Return of Frank James ( 1940 ) with Gene Tierney.

In 1951, he gave a strong performance in Close to My Heart, starring with Gene Tierney as a couple trying to adopt a child.

He returned as a film character actor in the late 60s and the 70s, notably in the cult classic Daughter of the Mind ( 1969 ), in which he was reunited with Gene Tierney, and in Love Story ( 1970 ).

It stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb.

New York City police detective Mark McPherson ( Dana Andrews ) is investigating the murder of beautiful, and highly successful, advertising executive, Laura Hunt ( Gene Tierney ).

* Gene Tierney as Laura Hunt

He offered relative newcomers Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews little support, allowed theatrically trained Judith Anderson to play to the balcony instead of reining in her performance, and virtually ignored Webb, who had learned the director was unhappy with his casting.

Laura was adapted as a radio play for two episodes of Lux Radio Theater, the first starring Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney and Vincent Price ( February 5, 1945 ), the second starring Gene Tierney and Victor Mature ( February 1, 1954 ).

In addition, " Laura " was presented twice on The Screen Guild Theater ( August 20, 1945 and February 23, 1950 ), both episodes starring Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb.

Bonus tracks include commentaries by film historian Jeanine Basinger, composer David Raksin, and author Rudy Behlmer ; a deleted scene ; the original theatrical trailer ; and Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait and Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain, two episodes from A & E Biography.

In 1986 Peck was honored alongside actress Gene Tierney with the first Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival Spain for their body of work.

Among the other actresses considered for Cassandra were Katharine Hepburn, Adele Longmire, Marsha Hunt, Laraine Day, Susan Peters, Joan Leslie, Gene Tierney and Priscilla Lane.

He was also at the same time gaining practical experience as a safe breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene Geary, later committed to Chester Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.

End Gene Raesz, who broke a hand in the Owl's game with LSU, was back working out with Rice Monday, and John Nichols, sophomore guard, moved back into action after a week's idleness with an ankle injury.

The stage musical, with music and lyrics by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, was adapted into a Technicolor motion picture at Paramount in 1959 by producer Norman Panama and director Melvin Frank, with a score by Nelson Riddle.

Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, the film was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger, and was based on Bergman's story and draft.

In 2005, Gene Weingarten from The Washington Post was sent a gift of a first edition Barnaby book as an incentive for Watterson's cooperation.

No matter whether it appeared above or below a main strip, the extra strip was known as the topper, such as The Squirrel Cage which ran along with Room and Board, both drawn by Gene Ahern.

Shoemaker Crater ( formerly Teague Ring ) in Western Australia was renamed in memory of Gene Shoemaker

Gene Krupa was the first drummer to head his own orchestra and thrust the drums into the spotlight with his drum solos.

* The ESS was a major element used to analyze evolution in Richard Dawkins ' bestselling 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

All five of its issues were published while the show was still on the air, and included letters from D. C. Fontana, Gene Roddenberry, and most of the cast members, and an article by future Hugo and Nebula winner Lois McMaster Bujold.

Eugene Curran " Gene " Kelly ( August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996 ) was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer.

In 1932, the dance studio was renamed The Gene Kelly Studio of the Dance.

Under it, a figure was dancing ... Gene.

He isn't cruel but he is tough, and if Gene believed in something he didn't care who he was talking to, whether it was Louis B. Mayer or the gatekeeper.

In 1970, he made another TV special: Gene Kelly and 50 Girls and was invited to bring the show to Las Vegas, Nevada, which he duly did for an eight-week stint – on condition he be paid more than any artist had hitherto been paid there.

* 1981 – Gene Kelly was the subject of a two-week film festival in France.

On January 13, 2012, Gene Hackman was struck by a car while riding a bicycle in Islamorada, Florida.

Gene therapy was first conceptualized in 1972, with the authors urging caution before commencing gene therapy studies in humans.

It was a spin-off of the British reality show Gene Simmons ' Rock School, which also aired on VH1.

Voight next portrayed President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 2001's action / war film, Pearl Harbor, having accepted the role when Gene Hackman declined ( his performance was received favorably by critics ).

Gene Kelly discovered her in Roland Petit Company " Ballet des Champs Elysées ", and cast her to appear opposite him in the musical An American in Paris ( 1951 ), a role in which a pregnant Cyd Charisse was originally cast.

The word meme is a shortening ( modeled on gene ) of mimeme ( from Ancient Greek μίμημα mīmēma, " something imitated ", from μιμεῖσθαι mimeisthai, " to imitate ", from μῖμος mimos " mime ") and it was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.

" Memeticist " was coined as analogous to " geneticist " originally in The Selfish Gene.