Lana Turner

DOB: 1921-02-08

DOD: 1995-06-29

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

Starred In

1951
Movie

Mr. Imperium

1941
Movie

Ziegfeld Girl

1959
Movie

Imitation of Life

1955
Movie

The Sea Chase

1941
Movie

Johnny Eager

1966
Movie

Madame X

1957
Movie

Peyton Place

1960
Movie

Portrait in Black

1937
Movie

They Won't Forget

1969
Movie

The Big Cube

1954
Movie

Betrayed

1941
Movie

Honky Tonk

1974
Movie

Persecution

1948
Movie

Homecoming

1947
Movie

Cass Timberlane

1961
Movie

By Love Possessed

1937
Movie

The Great Garrick

1955
Movie

The Prodigal

1952
Movie

The Merry Widow

1976
Movie

Bittersweet Love

1943
Movie

Slightly Dangerous

1953
Movie

Latin Lovers

1938
Movie

Dramatic School

1950
Movie

A Life of Her Own

1956
Movie

Diane

1980
Movie

Witches' Brew

1939
Movie

Dancing Co-Ed

1943
Movie

Strictly G.I.

1940
Movie

We Who Are Young

1937
Movie

Topper

1944
Movie

Twenty Years After

1938
Movie

Four's a Crowd

1981
Tv

Falcon Crest

1953
Tv

The Oscars

1977
Tv

The Love Boat

1977
Tv

The Love Boat