![]() ![]() ![]() She was 17 when she visited Hollywood with her mother, brother and sister. She attended private schools in Connecticut and Switzerland. Miss Tierney was the daughter of Howard Tierney, a prosperous New York insurance broker. She stayed there, remaining active in local politics and in such causes as helping retarded children. ![]() She lived with him in Houston until his death in 1981. Howard Lee, the former husband of actress Hedy Lamarr. In 1961, she married millionaire Texas oilman W. Her last acting role was in 1980 in the TV-movie “Scruples,” in which she portrayed a magazine editor. The last was “The Pleasure Seekers” (1964), in which she had a cameo role. In the early 1960s, she managed to pick up a few pieces of her career, appearing in a television drama and in three films. I didn’t know who Elvis Presley was, or the names of any new books or songs or movies.” I didn’t know that Russia and the United States had fired rockets into space. I didn’t know who was running the government. That memory was just about the last I had until I woke up one day and wondered how it happened to be 1959. ![]() “I had been invited in 1956 to the inauguration of President Eisenhower. She had no recollection of many events in her life during the late 1950s, she said in her 1979 autobiography, “Self Portrait,” and had to recover details from relatives, friends, scrapbooks and letters. ![]()
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