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Lana Turner was born Julia Jean Mildred Francis Turner in Wallace, Idaho. There is some discrepancy as to whether her birth date is February 8, 1920 or 1921. Lana herself said in her autobiography that she was one year younger (1921) than the records showed, but then this was a time where women, especially actresses, tended to "fib" a bit about ...
Turner, Lana (1920-1995) Nicknamed the "Sweater Girl," actress Lana Turner defined feminine sexuality for a generation during the World War II era. She portrayed an archetypal character in The Postman Always Rings Twice, the first American film version of a James Cain novel and a seminal film noir, and helped reestablish the melodrama genre in the 1950s with her appearances in Peyton Place and Imitation of Life.
Jul 22, 2022 · This, Lana Turner later recalled, was how her career began. Turner (1921-1995) has a fair claim as the first modern celebrity film star, and her private life was every bit as turbulent and ...
Feb 8, 2021 · 1. Lana Turner's father was murdered when she was a child. Lana Turner—born Julia Jean Mildred Francis Turner on February 8, 1921 in Wallace, Idaho—had one of the most dramatic off-screen ...
Feb 8, 2021 · Lana Turner spoke these words as aspiring actress Lora Meredith in Imitation of Life (1959), but they could have been uttered by almost any of her characters over her 4 decades in Hollywood. Turner played women who wanted things: money, status, a successful man.
Jun 8, 2023 · Lana: The Lady, the Legend, The Truth, Turner’s own highly enjoyable—if carefully curated—1982 autobiography, bears this assertion out.In it, Turner recounts her seven tumultuous marriages ...
Killing of Johnny Stompanato. On the evening of April 4, 1958, 14-year-old Cheryl Crane fatally stabbed 32-year-old Johnny Stompanato, the boyfriend of her mother, actress Lana Turner, at Turner's rented home in Beverly Hills, California, United States. Stompanato, a former Marine and an associate of the Cohen crime family, had been in a year ...
