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The term " sweater girl " was made popular in the 1940s and 1950s to describe Hollywood actresses like Lana Turner, Jayne Mansfield, and Jane Russell, who adopted the popular fashion of wearing tight, form-fitting sweaters that emphasized the woman's bustline.
Lana Turner. Actress: Madame X. Lana Turner had an acting ability that belied the "Sweater Girl" image MGM thrust upon her, and even many of her directors admitted that they knew she was capable of greatness (check out The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)).
- February 8, 1921
- June 29, 1995
Warner Bros. publicist Irving Fein wanted to come up with a catchy name for Lana Turner, and at the time, the “thing” was to describe a young starlet as the ____ girl. You know, like, “The It Girl.”. Well, Fein looked at the scene and came up with “The Sweater Girl.”. And the name stuck.
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- Lana Turner's father was murdered when she was a child. 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.
- Lana Turner was discovered while skipping class. 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.
- Lana Turner was known as "The Sweater Girl." 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).
- Lana Turner was married eight times. 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.
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Jun 30, 1995 · Lana Turner, who built a successful movie career on her first screen appearance as a teen-age "sweater girl," died yesterday. She was 75 and lived in Los Angeles. "She just took a breath...
Jul 1, 1995 · Lana Turner, who built a successful movie career on her first screen appearance as a teen-age "sweater girl," died on Thursday. She was 75 and lived in Los Angeles. "She just took a breath...
