Lana Turner

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1921-02-08

Deathday 1995-06-29 (74 years old)

Place of Birth Wallace, Idaho, USA

Also Known As Julia Jean Turner, Лана Тёрнер, Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner

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

Actor

2019
2018
2017
This Is Bob Hope...

as Self (archive footage)

2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

as Self (archive footage)

2004
Los Angeles Plays Itself

as Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice (archive footage)

2002
Reflections of Evil

as Tracy Carlyle Hastings (archive footage)

2002
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2001
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir

as Self (archive footage)

1994
That's Entertainment! III

as (archive footage)

1993
La Classe américaine

as Isabelle (archive footage)

1988
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1982
Showbiz Goes to War

as (archive footage)

1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

as (in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (archive footage)

1981
Falcon Crest

as Jacqueline Perrault

1980
Witches' Brew

as Vivian Cross

1979
The Hollywood Clowns

as (archive footage)

1977
The Love Boat

as Elizabeth Raleigh

1977
The Love Boat

as Elizabeth Raley

1976
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)

1974
Persecution

as Carrie Masters

1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory

as Self (archive footage)

1969
The Big Cube

as Adriana Roman

1967
The Carol Burnett Show

as Self - Guest / Various Characters

1966
Madame X

as Holly Parker

1965
Love Has Many Faces

as Kit Jordon

1962
Who's Got the Action?

as Melanie Flood

1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

1961
Bachelor in Paradise

as Rosemary Howard

1961
By Love Possessed

as Marjorie Penrose

1960
Portrait in Black

as Sheila Cabot

1959
Imitation of Life

as Lora Meredith

1958
Andy Hardy Comes Home

as Cynthia Potter (archive footage) (uncredited)

1958
1958
The Lady Takes a Flyer

as Maggie Colby

1957
Peyton Place

as Constance MacKenzie

1956
Diane

as Diane de Poitiers - Countess de Breze

1955
The Rains of Ranchipur

as Lady Edwina Esketh

1955
The Sea Chase

as Elsa Keller

1955
The Prodigal

as Samarra

1954
Betrayed

as Carla Van Oven

1954
1953
Latin Lovers

as Nora Taylor

1953
The Oscars

as Self

1952
The Bad and the Beautiful

as Georgia Lorrison

1952
The Merry Widow

as Crystal Radek

1952
Singin' in the Rain

as Actress in 'The Royal Rascal' (uncredited)

1951
Mr. Imperium

as Fredda Barlo

1950
A Life of Her Own

as Lily Brannel James

1950
What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

1948
The Three Musketeers

as Lady De Winter

1948
Homecoming

as Lt. Jane 'Snapshot' McCall

1947
Cass Timberlane

as Virginia 'Jinny' Marshland

1947
Green Dolphin Street

as Marianne Patourel

1945
1945
Keep Your Powder Dry

as Valerie Parks

1944
Marriage Is a Private Affair

as Theodora "Theo" Scoffield West

1944
Twenty Years After

as (archive footage)

1943
Du Barry was a Lady

as Lana Turner (uncredited)

1943
Slightly Dangerous

as Peggy Evans aka Carol Burden

1943
1943
Strictly G.I.

as Self - Guest Star

1942
1941
Johnny Eager

as Lisbeth 'Liz' Bard

1941
Honky Tonk

as Elizabeth Cotton

1941
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Beatrix 'Bea' Emery

1941
Ziegfeld Girl

as Sheila Regan

1940
We Who Are Young

as Marjorie White Brooks

1940
Trifles of Importance

as Self (archive footage)

1940
Two Girls on Broadway

as Pat Mahoney

1939
Dancing Co-Ed

as Patty Marlow

1939
1939
These Glamour Girls

as Jane Thomas

1939
Calling Dr. Kildare

as Rosalie Lewett

1938
1938
1938
Four's a Crowd

as Passerby (uncredited)

1938
Love Finds Andy Hardy

as Cynthia Potter

1937
The Great Garrick

as Mlle. Auber

1937
Topper

as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

1937
They Won't Forget

as Mary Clay

Producer

1958