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
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice (archive footage)
as Tracy Carlyle Hastings (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Isabelle (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as (archive footage)
as (in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (archive footage)
as Jacqueline Perrault
as Self
as Vivian Cross
as (archive footage)
as Elizabeth Raleigh
as Elizabeth Raley
as Claire
as (archive footage)
as Carrie Masters
as Self (archive footage)
as Adriana Roman
as Tracy Carlyle Hastings
as Self - Guest / Various Characters
as Holly Parker
as (archive footage)
as Kit Jordon
as Melanie Flood
as 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Rosemary Howard
as Marjorie Penrose
as Sheila Cabot
as Lora Meredith
as Cynthia Potter (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Sara Scott
as Maggie Colby
as Constance MacKenzie
as Diane de Poitiers - Countess de Breze
as Self
as Lady Edwina Esketh
as Elsa Keller
as Samarra
as Carla Van Oven
as Madeline
as The Star
as Nora Taylor
as Self
as Georgia Lorrison
as Crystal Radek
as Actress in 'The Royal Rascal' (uncredited)
as Fredda Barlo
as Lily Brannel James
as Self - Mystery Guest
as Lady De Winter
as Lt. Jane 'Snapshot' McCall
as Self
as Virginia 'Jinny' Marshland
as Marianne Patourel
as Cora Smith
as Bunny Smith
as Valerie Parks
as Theodora "Theo" Scoffield West
as (archive footage)
as Lana Turner (uncredited)
as Self
as Peggy Evans aka Carol Burden
as Lana Turner
as Self - Guest Star
as Paula Lane
as Lisbeth 'Liz' Bard
as Elizabeth Cotton
as Beatrix 'Bea' Emery
as Sheila Regan
as Marjorie White Brooks
as Self (archive footage)
as Pat Mahoney
as Patty Marlow
as Herself (uncredited)
as Jane Thomas
as Rosalie Lewett
as Mado
as Helen
as Passerby (uncredited)
as Cynthia Potter
as Maid
as Mlle. Auber
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
as Mary Clay
Producer
as Co-Producer