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Lana Turner
Julia Jean "Lana" Turner was an American actress. Over a career spanning nearly five decades, she achieved fame as both a pin-up model and a film actress, as well as for her highly publicized personal life. In the mid-1940s, she was one of the highest-paid American actresses, and one of MGM's biggest stars, with her films earning over one billion dollars in 2026 currency for the studio during her…
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entertainment · American actress (1921–1995) · television actor · film actor · autobiographer · stage actor · model · singer · actor · dancer · also Lana Turner, Julia Jean Turner, Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner, Judy Turner, Turner
Born 8 February 1921 · Died 29 June 1995 · Q201034
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2026· 2 entries
Currency for the studio during her 18-year contract with them
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2025· 2 entries
Yahoo: Lana Turner’s 7 Husbands: Drama, Scandal and Murder
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Dollars ), but Turner's contract was put on temporary suspension by Mayer after production finished
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2024· 1 entry
Yahoo: Lana Turner: New Questions Arise About the Stabbing Death of Her Mobster Boyfriend
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2012· 1 entry
Complex named her the eighth-most infamous actress of all time
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2005· 1 entry
That Turner "came to crystallize the opulent heights to which show business could usher a small-town girl, as well as its darkest, most tragic and narcissistic depths"
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2002· 1 entry
Artist Eloy Torrez included Turner in an outdoor mural, Portrait of Hollywood, painted on the auditorium of Hollywood High School, her alma mater
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1995· 7 entries
Died 1995-06-29.
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Of complications from the cancer, at her home in Century City, Los Angeles, with her daughter, Cheryl, by her side
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Awarded Donostia Award (1995).
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“My life has been a series of emergencies.”
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“I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.”
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“The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now. It never did, really. It was romance I wanted, kisses and candlelight, that sort of thing. I never did dig sex very much.”
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“My goal was to have one husband and seven children, but it turned out to be the other way around.”
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1992· 1 entry
And died three years later, at the age of 74
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1985· 1 entry
Which marked her final on-screen appearance
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1982· 1 entry
With the series subsequently garnering notably high ratings
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1981· 1 entry
The National Film Society presented Turner with an Artistry in Cinema award
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1980· 1 entry
Turner made her final feature film appearance, in the comedy horror film Witches' Brew, alongside Teri Garr
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1975· 2 entries
Awarded Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award for Persecution (1975).
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Turner gave a single performance as Jessica Poole in The Pleasure of His Company opposite Louis Jourdan at the Arlington Park Theater in Chicago
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1969· 1 entry
Married Ronald Pellar, a nightclub hypnotist whom she had met at a Los Angeles disco
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1966· 1 entry
Turner had her last major starring role in the courtroom drama film Madame X, based on the 1904 play by Alexandre Bisson, in which Turner portrayed a lower-class woman who marries into a wealthy family
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1965· 1 entry
Met Hollywood producer and businessman Robert Eaton, who was ten years her junior, through business associates
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1958· 1 entry
Intense media scrutiny surrounded Turner when her lover, Johnny Stompanato, was stabbed to death by her teenage daughter, Cheryl Crane, during a domestic struggle in their home
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1956· 1 entry
Turner discovered she was pregnant with Barker's child, but gave birth to a stillborn baby girl seven months into the pregnancy
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1955· 1 entry
MGM's new studio head Dore Schary had Turner star as a pagan temptress in the Biblical epic The Prodigal (1955), her first CinemaScope feature
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1950· 1 entry
Turner left her handprints and footprints in cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre
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1949· 2 entries
“Everybody agrees that the script is still a pile of junk. I”
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Turner was to star in A Life of Her Own (1950), a George Cukor-directed drama about a woman who aspires to be a model in New York City
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1945· 1 entry
Co-starred with Laraine Day and Susan Peters in Keep Your Powder Dry, a war drama about three disparate women who join the Women's Army Corps
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1940· 2 entries
Turner appeared in her first musical film, Two Girls on Broadway, in which she received top billing over established co-stars Joan Blondell and George Murphy
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Columnist Louella Parsons wrote: "If Lana Turner will behave herself, and not go completely berserk she is headed for a top spot in motion pictures
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1936· 1 entry
At the age of 15, she was discovered by a talent scout, while shopping at the Top Hat malt shop in Hollywood
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1930· 1 entry
Her father won some money at a traveling craps game; he stuffed his winnings in his sock and headed home, but was later found bludgeoned to death on the corner of Minnesota and Mariposa Streets, on the edge of San Franci
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1925· 1 entry
Where her father opened a dry cleaning service and worked in the local silver mines
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1921· 2 entries
Born 1921-02-08.
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At Providence Hospital in Wallace, Idaho
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