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- Lana Turner's Father Was Murdered When She Was A Child.
- Lana Turner Was Discovered While Skipping Class.
- Lana Turner Was Known as "The Sweater Girl."
- Lana Turner Was Married Eight times.
- Lana Turner Was Rumored to Have Had An Ongoing Affair with Clark Gable.
- For Lana Turner, Tyrone Power Was The "One Who Got away."
- Lana Turner Taught James Bond How to Kiss.
- Lana Turner's Relationship with Johnny Stompanato Ended Tragically.
- Lana Turner's Personal Life Was Echoed in One of Her Most Famous roles.
Lana Turner—born Julia Jean Mildred Francis Turner on February 8, 1921 in Wallace, Idaho—had one of the most dramatic off-screen lives of any star of the Golden Age of Hollywood. The tragedy began when Turner was just 9 years old and her father—a conman and sometime-bootlegger named Virgil M. Turner—was beaten to death after winning money at a card...
Turner's 1936 discovery story is one of the most famous in Hollywood history. The soon-to-be star was just 16 years old, and a junior at Hollywood High School, when she skipped class to have a drink at the Top Hat Malt Shop across the street from her school. She was spotted by William Wilkerson, then-publisher of The Hollywood Reporter, who asked h...
Lana got the nickname "The Sweater Girl" as a result of the form-fitting, figure-accentuating top her character wore in her feature film debut, Mervyn LeRoy's legal drama They Won't Forget (1937). In it, Turner has a small role as a teenager whose murder sets off the plot. Warner Bros. publicist Irving Fine took credit for the nickname, which Lana—...
Lana Turner was married eight times to seven different men. The first of those men was band leader Artie Shaw, with whom she eloped in Las Vegas in 1940 after their first date; the marriage lasted four months. After their divorce, Turner found out she was pregnant but, per Shaw, "at the instigation of [her agent] Johnny Hyde and [Louis B. Mayer, co...
Turner was rumored to have had affairs with a lot of Hollywood's top leading men—one of them being Clark Gable, with whom she co-starred in several films in the early '40s. Robert Matzen hypothesized in his book Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3that Lombard took the plane ride that killed her—versus another, safer plane that woul...
Turner had many marriages, but the man she later came to consider the love of her lifewas someone she didn't marry. He was, after all, already married to someone else. That someone was actor Tyrone Power, with whom Turner began an affair in the late 1940s. In 1947 Turner learned she was pregnant but had an abortion; one year later, Power divorced h...
In a 2016 interview, Sir Roger Moore spoke about how, in his pre-Bond days, he starred in the costume drama Diane alongside Turner, who taught him how to kiss properly. "I go in for the kiss, and I dive in," said Moore, mimicking his passionate embrace and her horrified reaction. "I said, 'What's wrong, Lana?' She says, 'Sweetheart, when a lady get...
In the late 1950s, Turner was in a relationship with mobster (and bodyguard to famous gangster Mickey Cohen) Johnny Stompanato, who quickly became physically abusive toward the actress. On Friday 4, 1958, while at Turner's home in Beverly Hills, California, Stompanato threatened to kill Lana's mother, cut Lana's face to ruin her career, and hurt La...
Shortly after Stompanato's death, Turner was offered the starring role in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life, in which she would play an aging actress whose desires for continued stardom affect her relationship with her troubled teenage daughter (Sandra Dee). When producer Ross Hunter offered Turner the role, she initially turned it down, fearing tha...
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Mar 11, 2018 · Rachel Syme writes about a photography project by Lana Turner and Dario Calmese that documents Turner’s fashion collection, and explores the glamour of churchgoing women’s wardrobes.
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