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Subject: ARCHIVE: February 8, 1921 ~It was a century ago, Hollywood Film star LANA TURNER, whose memorable performances in films like "The Postman Always Rings Twice", "Peyton Place", and "The Bad and the Beautiful" made her an internationally revered Academy Award-nominate actress, was born 100 years ago today! ...


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Miss Turner died of cancer in 1995, at age 74.
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Date Posted: Monday, February 08, 01:35:23pm
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ARCHIVE: February 8, 1921 ~It was a century ago, Hollywood Film star LANA TURNER, whose memorable performances in films like "The Postman Always Rings Twice", "Peyton Place", and "The Bad and the Beautiful" made her an internationally revered Academy Award-nominate actress, was born 100 years ago today! ...


Lana Turner
[ Julia Jean Turner ]
(February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995)


American actress. Over the course of her nearly 50-year career, 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 actresses in the United States, and one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's (MGM) biggest stars, with her films earning the studio more than $50 million during her 18-year contract with them. Turner is frequently cited as a popular culture icon of Hollywood glamour and a screen legend of classical Hollywood cinema.

Lana Turner, seen here with Kirk Douglas in the 1952 classic melodrama, "The Bad and the Beautiful",
which earned 6 Oscars nominations winning 5 statues. Remarkably, the film was arguably Turner's best
acting effort, yet was NOT nominated for the 'Best Acting' honor! ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpYT_OkOqBI


Born to working-class parents in northern Idaho, Turner spent her childhood there before her family relocated to San Francisco. In 1936, when Turner was 15, she was discovered while purchasing a soda at the Top Hat Malt Shop in Hollywood. At the age of 16, she was signed to a personal contract by Warner Bros. director Mervyn LeRoy, who took her with him when he transferred to MGM in 1938. She soon attracted attention by playing the role of a murder victim in her film debut, LeRoy's They Won't Forget (1937), and she later moved into supporting roles, often appearing as an ingénue.

During the early 1940s, Turner established herself as a leading lady and one of MGM's top stars, appearing in such films as the film noir Johnny Eager (1941); the musical Ziegfeld Girl (1941); the horror film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941); and the romantic war drama Somewhere I'll Find You (1942), one of several films in which she starred opposite Clark Gable. Turner's reputation as a glamorous femme fatale was enhanced by her critically acclaimed performance in the noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), a role which established her as a serious dramatic actress. Her popularity continued through the 1950s in dramas such as The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and Peyton Place (1957), the latter for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.


...Intense media scrutiny surrounded the actress in 1958 when her teenage daughter Cheryl Crane stabbed Turner's lover Johnny Stompanato to death in their home during a domestic struggle. Her next film, Imitation of Life (1959), proved to be one of the greatest commercial successes of her career, and her final starring role in Madame X (1966) earned her a David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress. Turner spent most of the 1970s and early 1980s in semi-retirement, making her final film appearance in 1980. In 1982, she accepted a much-publicized and lucrative recurring guest role in the television series Falcon Crest, which afforded the series notably high ratings. In 1992, Turner was diagnosed with throat cancer and died of the disease three years later at age 74.

Learn MORE of the Hollywood femme fatale film star ...
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001805/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lana_Turner
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6208/lana-turner

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Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane is 77 now (NT)She took the blame for killing Lana's lover Johnny Stompanato in 1958, when she was 14Monday, February 08, 04:18:42pm
Nice to see TCM did a Turner tribute marathon programming yesterday! (NT)I saw "The Bad and the Beautiful" last night -her best!!Tuesday, February 09, 09:00:34am


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