Lana Turner
AKA: Julia Jean Turner
Birthday: 1921-02-08
Died: 1995-06-29
Birthplace: Wallace, Idaho, USA
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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.
Filmography
Character: Beatrix 'Bea' Emery
Character: (in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (archive footage)
Character: Georgia Lorrison
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Lisbeth 'Liz' Bard
Character: Lady De Winter
Character: Constance MacKenzie
Character: Tracy Carlyle Hastings (archive footage)
Character: Cynthia Potter
Character: Lady Edwina Esketh
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice (archive footage)
Character: Rosemary Howard
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Carla Van Oven
Character: Elizabeth Cotton
Character: Theodora "Theo" Scoffield West
Character: Carrie Masters
Character: Lt. Jane 'Snapshot' McCall
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Virginia 'Jinny' Marshland
Character: Marianne Patourel
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Rosalie Lewett
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Marjorie Penrose
Character: Peggy Evans aka Carol Burden
Character: Lily Brannel James
Character: Diane de Poitiers - Countess de Breze
Character: Lana Turner (uncredited)
Character: 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Self - Guest Star
Character: Marjorie White Brooks
Character: Herself (uncredited)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Cynthia Potter (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: (archive footage)
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Actress in 'The Royal Rascal' (uncredited)
Character: Passerby (uncredited)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Tracy Carlyle Hastings
Character: Isabelle (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)