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We’ll also visit some Japanese cats and puzzle over a disarranged corpse. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll describe Tierney’s years of heartbreak and the revelation that compounded them. The strain ended her marriage to Oleg Cassini and sent her into a breakdown that lasted years. At the height of her fame in 1943, movie star Gene Tierney contracted German measles during pregnancy and bore a daughter with severe birth defects.
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