In the novel, a similar episode provides the motive for Heather Babcock's murder fortunately for Tierney's fan, the actress did not similarly react to her revelation. Tierney quietly walked away in a state of shock. Years after her daughter's birth, Tierney was approached by a fan who apologetically admitted that she had been sick with Rubella when she had met the actress during WWII and said she hoped Tierney herself hadn't gotten ill. At a reception for a fading film star making a screen comeback, a gushing, pushy fan is poisoned by a drink apparently meant for the actress. With Joan Hickson, Claire Bloom, Barry Newman, Norman Rodway. The ordeal took a considerable emotional toll on the actress, who eventually divorced the philandering Cassini in 1952 and had numerous unhappy love affairs with, among others, John F. Miss Marple: The Mirror Crackd from Side to Side: Directed by Norman Stone. The title is a quotation from Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott, which is quoted as an epigraph. Tierney eventually, and reluctantly, agreed to have Daria institutionalized when she was four years old. Otherwise, the full book was first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club on 12th November 1962, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in September 1963, also with the shortened title The Mirror Crack’d. When the child, Daria, was born, doctors told her that she would never be able to speak or fully develop mentally. She was pregnant with Cassini's child when she went on a War bond tour during WWII and entertained at the Hollywood Canteen.Ī kiss from a fan who had contracted German Measles led to her unborn child developing brain damage during the pregnancy. Tierney, who starred memorably in "Laura" and "Leave Her to Heaven" among other films, was at one time married to fashion designer Oleg Cassini.
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