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Lana Turner

Lana Turner

Acting

Born February 8, 1921, Wallace, Idaho, USA

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.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (29)
  • 2018Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
  • 2017This Is Bob Hope... — Self (archive footage)
  • 20091939: Hollywood's Greatest Year — Self (archive footage)
  • 2003Murders of Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
  • 2002Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • 2001Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir — Self (archive footage)
  • 1996Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Lana Turner — Self (archive footage)
  • 1995The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies — Self (archive footage)
  • 1988Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • 1988The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind — Self (archive footage)
  • 1987Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood — Self
  • 1985Night of 100 Stars II — Self
  • 1983Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Entertainment Tonight — Self
  • Ciné regards — Self
  • 1972Hollywood: The Dream Factory — Self (archive footage)
  • The Carol Burnett Show — Self - Guest / Various Characters
  • 1961Hollywood: The Selznick Years — Self - Actress 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • The Dinah Shore Chevy Show — Self
  • MGM Parade — Self
  • The Oscars — Self
  • What's My Line? — Self
  • The Ed Sullivan Show — Self
  • 1943Show-Business at War — Self
  • 1943Strictly G.I. — Self - Guest Star
  • 1940A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound — Self
  • 1940Trifles of Importance — Self (archive footage)
  • 1939Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga — Herself (uncredited)
  • 1936Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) — Self
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