Lana Turner
Gender: Female
Born: 8th February 1921
Died: 29th June 1995
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Harold Robbins' The Survivors
Movies: Another Time, Another Place, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Imitation of Life, Peyton Place, The Bad and the Beautiful, They Won't Forget, Love Finds Andy Hardy, Diane, Dramatic School, Who's Got the Action?, The Adventures of Marco Polo, The Prodigal, Johnny Eager, These Glamour Girls, The Rains of Ranchipur, Ziegfeld Girl, Betrayed, Flame and the Flesh, The Sea Chase, Week-End at the Waldorf, The Three Musketeers, Honky Tonk, Somewhere I'll Find You, Madame X, The Merry Widow, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Cass Timberlane, Slightly Dangerous, Portrait in Black, Green Dolphin Street, The Big Cube, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Homecoming, Persecution, A Life of Her Own, The Lady Takes a Flyer, Latin Lovers, La Classe américaine, The Youngest Profession, Keep Your Powder Dry, Two Girls on Broadway, By Love Possessed, Bachelor in Paradise, We Who Are Young, Marriage Is a Private Affair, Dancing Co Ed
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
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