1941. In the movie’s dénouement, Gin Sling (Ona Munson) turns out to be Poppy’s mother. Gene Tierney’s stunningly exotic costumes were designed by her husband-to-be, Oleg Cassini. In her autobiography, Gene observes that Hollywood struggled to know how to use her: “Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.”
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