Overview

Know for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
08 Feb, 1921 (104 years old)

Lana Turner

Biography

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.

Known For

Reflections of Evil
HD
138 min 2002

Reflections of Evil

Comedy
The Big Cube
HD
98 min 1969

The Big Cube

Drama
Madame X
HD
100 min 1966

Madame X

Drama
Love Has Many Faces
HD
104 min 1965

Love Has Many Faces

Drama
Bachelor in Paradise
HD
109 min 1961

Bachelor in Paradise

Comedy
By Love Possessed
HD
115 min 1961

By Love Possessed

Drama

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