Lana Turner
Biography
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Lana Turner (February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995) was an American actress. Discovered and signed to a film contract by MGM at the age of sixteen, Turner first attracted attention in They Won't Forget (1937). She played featured roles, often as the ingenue, in such films as Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938). During the early 1940s she established herself as a leading actress in such films as Johnny Eager (1941), Ziegfeld Girl (1941) and Somewhere I'll Find You (1942). She is known as one of the first Hollywood scream queens thanks to her role in the 1941 horror film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and her reputation as a glamorous femme fatale was enhanced by her performance in the film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). Her popularity continued through the 1950s, in such films as The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and Peyton Place (1957), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
In 1958, her daughter, Cheryl Crane, stabbed Turner's lover Johnny Stompanato to death. A coroner's inquest brought considerable media attention to Turner and concluded that Crane had acted in self defense. Turner's next film, Imitation of Life (1959), proved to be one of the greatest successes of her career, but from the early 1960s her roles were fewer. She gained recognition near the end of her career with a recurring guest role in the television series Falcon Crest during 1982 and 1983. Turner made her final television appearance in 1991, and died from throat cancer in 1995.
Acting (85 movies)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941
Love Has Many Faces
1965
Mr. Imperium
1951
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946
Ziegfeld Girl
1941
Imitation of Life
1959
The Hollywood Clowns
1979
The Sea Chase
1955
Johnny Eager
1941
The Three Musketeers
1948
Madame X
1966
Another Time, Another Place
1958
Peyton Place
1957
Reflections of Evil
2002
Love Finds Andy Hardy
1938
The Rains of Ranchipur
1955
Portrait in Black
1960
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942
Trifles of Importance
1940
They Won't Forget
1937
Showbiz Goes to War
1982
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
Bachelor in Paradise
1961
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
The Big Cube
1969
Betrayed
1954
Who's Got the Action?
1962
Week-End at the Waldorf
1945
Honky Tonk
1941
Two Girls on Broadway
1940
Marriage Is a Private Affair
1944
Persecution
1974
Homecoming
1948
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
Cass Timberlane
1947
The Youngest Profession
1943
Green Dolphin Street
1947
The Lady Takes a Flyer
1958
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988
Calling Dr. Kildare
1939
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
By Love Possessed
1961
The Great Garrick
1937
The Prodigal
1955
The Adventures of Marco Polo
1938
The Merry Widow
1952
Bittersweet Love
1976
Slightly Dangerous
1943
Latin Lovers
1953
Dramatic School
1938
A Life of Her Own
1950
Diane
1956
These Glamour Girls
1939
Keep Your Powder Dry
1945
Rich Man, Poor Girl
1938
Flame and the Flesh
1954
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943
Witches' Brew
1980
Dancing Co-Ed
1939
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Strictly G.I.
1943
We Who Are Young
1940
Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
1939
Topper
1937
That's Entertainment! III
1994
Andy Hardy Comes Home
1958
Show-Business at War
1943
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940
Twenty Years After
1944
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002
This Is Bob Hope...
2017
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936
Singin' in the Rain
1952
Four's a Crowd
1938
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
La Classe américaine
1993
Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Lana Turner
1996
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
2001
Great Lady Has an Interview
1954
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
Murders of Hollywood
2003
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