Lana Turner

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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.

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2023
1939: Secrets of Hollywood's Golden Year
TV show
2018
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Movie Self (archive footage)
2017
This Is Bob Hope...
Movie Self (archive footage)
2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Movie Self (archive footage)
2003
Murders of Hollywood
Movie Self (archive footage)
2002
Reflections of Evil
Movie Tracy Carlyle Hastings (archive footage)
2002
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
Movie Self (archive footage)
1996
Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Lana Turner
Movie Self (archive footage)
1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Movie Self (archive footage)
1994
That's Entertainment! III
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993
La Classe américaine
Movie Isabelle (archive footage)
1992
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie Self (archive footage)
1988
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Movie Self

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1985
Night of 100 Stars II
Movie Self
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1982
Showbiz Goes to War
Movie (archive footage)
1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Movie (in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (archive footage)
1981
Falcon Crest
TV show Jacqueline Perrault
1981
Entertainment Tonight
TV show Self
1980
Witches' Brew
Movie Vivian Cross
1979
The Hollywood Clowns
Movie (archive footage)
1978
Ciné regards
TV show Self
1977
The Love Boat
TV show Elizabeth Raley
1976
Bittersweet Love
Movie Claire
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie (archive footage)
1974
Persecution
Movie Carrie Masters
1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Movie Self (archive footage)
1969
Harold Robbins' The Survivors
TV show Tracy Carlyle Hastings
1969
The Big Cube
Movie Adriana Roman
1967
The Carol Burnett Show
TV show Self - Guest / Various Characters
1966
Madame X
Movie Holly Parker
1965
Love Has Many Faces
Movie Kit Jordon
1962
Who's Got the Action?
Movie Melanie Flood
1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Movie Self - Actress 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961
Bachelor in Paradise
Movie Rosemary Howard
1961
By Love Possessed
Movie Marjorie Penrose
1960
Portrait in Black
Movie Sheila Cabot