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When Gene met Louis Shurr, an actor's agent: "He looked up and down and said "George Abbot is casting a play about Irish immigrants. He sometimes gives a chance to unknowns." He walked over to his coffee table, opened a copy of The Saturday Evening Post, handed it to me, and said, "read this in an Irish brogue." I had a quick ear and often walked around the house imitating whatever actress I had seen in a movie that day. But even now I have no idea where I had heard, or acquired, the thick Irish brogue that rolled off my tongue as I read from the article in the magazine. My father seemed flabbergasted when I finished, and so did the agent. But after all, I was a Tierney. I had the touch of the shamrock in me." (From Self-portrait, 1979)
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