LANA TURNER VINTAGE 1941 ZIEGFELD GIRL KEY STILL GELATIN SILVER PHOTO
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LANA TURNER ORIGINAL VINTAGE 1941 ZIEGFELD GIRL KEY STILL GELATIN SILVER PHOTO
DESCRIPTION: Original vintage 1941 gelatin silver photograph... (see mimeographed publicity stamp on verso) of actress LANA TURNER promoting the film "Ziefeld Girl".
- SIZE: approx. 8" X 10"
- TONE: B&W
- FINISH: glossy
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LANATURNER BIO (February 8, 1921 ? June 29, 1995) was an American actress.Discoveredand signed to a film contract by MGM at the age of sixteen, Turner first attracted attention in They Won'tForget (1937). She playedfeatured roles, often as the ingenue, in such films as Love Finds Andy Hardy(1938). During the early 1940s sheestablished 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 Hollywoodscream queens thanks to her role in the 1941 horror film Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, and her reputation as aglamorous femme fatale was enhanced by her performance in the film noir ThePostman 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 nominatedfor an Academy Award for Best Actress.In 1958, her daughter, Cheryl Crane, stabbed Turner's loverJohnny Stompanato to death. Acoroner's inquest brought considerable media attention to Turner and concludedthat Crane had acted in self defense.Turner's next film, Imitation ofLife (1959), proved to be one ofthe greatest successes of her career, but from the early 1960s, her roleswere fewer. She gained recognitionnear the end of her career with a recurring guest role in the television seriesFalcon Crest during 1982 and 1983.Turner madeher final television appearance in 1991, and died from throat cancer in 1995.Born JuliaJean Turner in Wallace, Idaho, she was the daughter of John Virgil Madison Turner, a miner from Hohenwald, Tennessee (died December 14, 1930), and Mildred Frances Cowan, a sixteen-year-old native of Arkansas (died February 22, 1982). A common and often repeatederror is to add the given names of her mother Mildred Frances to her birth name. These names she used when she converted toCatholicism. Until herfilm career took off, young JuliaTurner was known to family and friends as "Judy". Hard times eventually forced the family tore-locate to San Francisco, where her parents soon separated. On December 14, 1930, her father won some money at atraveling craps game, stuffed hiswinnings in his left sock, andheaded for home. He was later founddead on the corner of Minnesota and MariposaStreets, on the edge of Potrero Hilland the Dogpatch District in San Francisco, his left shoe and sock missing. Therobbery and murder were never solved.Soon after, her mother developedhealth problems and was advised by her doctor to move to a drier climate. With her ten-year-old daughter, she moved to Los Angeles in 1931.Mildred andLana were very poor, and Turner wassometimes separated from her mother, living with friends or acquaintances so that the family could save money. Her mother worked as a beautician to support them. After Turner was discovered, her mother became the overseer of Turner's career.Turner'sdiscovery at a Hollywood drug store is ashow-business legend. As asixteen-year-old student at Hollywood High School, Turner skipped a typing class and bought a Coke atthe Top Hat Cafe located on the southeast corner of Sunset Boulevard and McCadden Place (notSchwab's Pharmacy), where she wasspotted by William R. Wilkerson, publisher of The Hollywood Reporter. Wilkerson was attracted by her beauty and physique, and referred her to the actor/comedian/talentagent Zeppo Marx. Marx's agencyimmediately signed her on and introduced her to film director Mervyn LeRoy, who cast her in her first film, They Won't Forget (1937).Turner earnedthe nickname "The Sweater Girl" from her form-fitting attire in ascene in They Won't Forget.According to her daughter, this wasa nickname Turner detested throughout her entire career.In late 1937, she signed a contractwith Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $100 a week, and graduated from high school in between takes.According to LeRoy, it was thanks tohim that she made the switch, for heleft Warners to work at MGM and was advised by studio head Jack Warner to takeher with him, because Warnerbelieved that she wouldn't "amount to anything."Her first starring role for MGM was scheduled to be an adaption of TheSea-Wolf, co-starring ClarkGable, but the project waseventually canned. Instead, she was assigned opposite teen idol Mickey Rooneyin the Andy Hardy film Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938). It was this appearance that convinced Louis B. Mayer that LeRoy's protégé Turner could be thenext Jean Harlow, a sex symbol whohad died six months before Turner's arrival at MGM.Mayer turnedher into a glamorous star, mostlypopular among college boys, and gaveher the leads in several teen-oriented films in the late 1930s and early 1940s, such as Dramatic School (1938), These Glamour Girls (1939) and DancingCo-Ed (1939). In early 1940, she was also set to star in a remake of OurDancing Daughters, but the filmwas never made. From the beginningof her career, Turner stood herground on her beliefs and was one of the few actresses at MGM to go againstMayer's wishes. Turnerreached the height of her fame in the 1940s and 1950s.During World War II, Turner became apopular pin-up girl due to her popularity in such films such as ZiegfeldGirl (1941), Johnny Eager(1942), and four films withMetro?Goldwyn?Mayer's "king of the lot, "Clark Gable. The Turner-Gable films'successes were only heightened by gossip-column rumors about a relationshipbetween the two. Turner even had aB-17 Flying Fortress?the Tempest Turner?named after her. Following the canned The Sea Wolf project, Turner and Gable were set to star in The Uniformin December 1940. Turner waseventually replaced by Rosalind Russell and the film was released as TheyMet in Bombay (1941).Meanwhile, Turner was receiving much publicity for herpersonal life, and her career wasone of the very few to be furthered by this.MGM boosted this by changing the title of her latest film to SlightlyDangerous (1943). After thewar, Turner's career continuedsuccessfully with the release, in ThePostman Always Rings Twice (1946), which co-starred John Garfield. Asclaimed in a documentary, Turner didnot get along with him and when she found he was her male lead, she responded: "Couldn't they at least hiresomeone attractive?" The now-classic film noir marked a turning point inher career, and it marked Turner'sfirst femme fatale role. Reviews ofthe film, and in particular, Turner's performance, were glowing, with a critic of TheNew York Times writing it was "the role of her career." While not exactly giving up her pin-upcredentials, Turner establishedherself as a skilled actress. ThePostman Always Rings Twice was thus a turning point in her career. Turner commented on this:"Ifinally got tired of making movies where all I did was walk across the screenand look pretty. I got a big chanceto do some real acting in The Postman Always Rings Twice, and I'm not going to slip back if I can help it. I tried to persuade the studio to give mesomething different. But every timeI went into my argument about how bad a picture was they'd say, 'well, it's making a fortune.' That lickedme." She got therole after turning down "four pretty-pretty parts in a row." The film became a box office success, which prompted the studio to take more risks onthe star. In August 1946, it was announced Turner was set to replaceKatharine Hepburn in the big budgeted historical drama Green Dolphin Street (1947), a role for which she darkened her hair and lost 15pounds. She was cast due to thepersistance of producer Carey Wilson, who was overwhelmed by her performance in The Postman Always Rings Twice. Turner later recalled she was surprised aboutreplacing Hepburn, saying: "AndI guess I'm about the most un-Hepburnish actress on the lot. But it was just what I wanted to do." It was her first starring role that did notcenter on her looks. In an interview, Turner said: "I even go running around in thejungles of New Zealandin a dress that's filthy and ragged.I don't wear any make-up and my hair's a mess."Nevertheless, she insisted she wouldnot give up her glamorous image.]Later thatyear, Turner headlined CassTimberlane, a role that JenniferJones, Vivien Leigh and VirginiaGrey were previously considered for.As of early 1946, Turner was set forthe role, but schedules with GreenDolphin Street almost prohibited her from taking the role, and by late 1946, she was almost recast. Production ofCass Timberlane was very exhausting for Turner, as it was shot in between retakes of Green Dolphin Street. Nevertheless, she took the female lead in Homecoming (1948) in August 1947, only moments after finishing Cass Timberlane. She was the studio's first choice for the role, but they were reluctant to offer her the part, considering her overbooked schedule. Paired again with Clark Gable in Homecoming, their chemistry projected on the screen was wellreceived by the audience, and theywere nicknamed "the team that generates steam".By this period, Turner achieved themilestone of her film career, andwas not only MGM's most popular star, but also one of the ten best paid women in the United States.In 1948, Turner appeared in her first Technicolor film, appearing as Lady de Winter in The ThreeMusketeers, opposite Gene Kelly, Van Heflin and June Allyson.In November 1947, she agreed to dothe film, thereby giving up anunfinished film project called Bedeviled.However, in January 1948 it wasreported that she had withdrawn from the film.Initially, Louis B. Mayer gave her permission for doing so because ofher schedule, but she was later thatmonth put on suspension. Eventually, Turner agreed to make the film, but did not start production until March due tohaving to lose weight. In 1949, she was to headline A Life of Her Own(1950). The project was shelved forseveral months, and Turner insistedin December 1949 that she had nothing to do with it, saying: "Everybody agrees that the script is still a pile of junk. I'm anxious to get started.By the time this one comes out, itwill be almost three years since I was last on the screen, in The Three Musketeers. Idon't think it's healthy to stay off the screen that long."During the1950s, Turner starred in a series offilms that failed to succeed at the box office, a situation MGM attempted to remedy by casting her in musicals. The first, Mr. Imperium (1951), was a flop, while The Merry Widow (1952) was more successful.She gave a widely praised performance in Vincente Minnelli's film, The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), and later starred with John Wayne in the adventurefilm The Sea Chase (1955).She was then cast in the epic The Prodigal (1955), but the film and her performance in general were not well received. After the film Diane (1956), MGM opted not to renew her contract. This was a difficult time for Hollywood's major studios because a recentcourt decision forced them to divest themselves of their movie theaters. In addition, television had caught on in a big way; the public was staying home. Turner was just one of MGM's star roster to be letgo.Turner'scareer recovered briefly after she appeared in the hugely successful big-screenadaptation of Grace Metalious's best-selling novel, Peyton Place (1957), forwhich she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Another few box-office failures followed (AnotherTime, Another Place (1958), for example) when the 1958 scandal surrounding herdaughter's killing of Stompanato threatened to derail her career completely.In the trailof the related negative publicity, Turner accepted the lead role in Ross Hunter's remake of Imitation of Life(1959) under the direction of Douglas Sirk.Universal Studios capitalized on her new-found notoriety; the result was one ofthe biggest hits of the year, aswell as the biggest hit of Turner's career: she owned 50% of the earnings ofthe picture and for only the first year of the film's career she earned $11million. Critics and audiencescouldn't help noticing that the plots of both Peyton Place and Imitation ofLife had borrowed heavily from Turner's private life.Each film depicted the troubled, complicated relationship between a single mother and her teenage daughter.She made herlast film at MGM starring with Bob Hope in Bachelor in Paradise (1961). Other highlights of this era include two Hunterproductions (for whom she did Imitation of Life), Portrait in Black (1960) and Madame X (1966), which proved to be her last major starring role.Turner waswell known inside Hollywood circles for datingoften, changing partners often, and for never shying away from the topic of howmany lovers she had in her lifetime.Turner wasmarried eight times to seven different husbands:Bandleader Artie Shaw (1940). Married only four months, Turner was 19 when she and Shaw eloped on their first date. The sudden marriage was highly publicized, and there was even talks of MGM releasing her from her contract. She later referred to their stormy and verbally abusive relationship as "my college education".Actor and restaurateur Joseph Stephen Crane (1942?1943, 1943?1944). Turner and Crane's first marriage was annulled after she discovered that Crane's previous divorce had not yet been finalized. After a brief separation (during which Crane attempted suicide), they re-married to provide for their newborn daughter, Cheryl.Millionaire socialite Henry J. Topping Jr. (1948?1952). A brother of Dan Topping, owner of the New York Yankees, and a grandson of tin-plate magnate Daniel G. Reid, "Bob" Topping proposed to Turner at the 21 Club in Los Angeles by dropping a diamond ring into her martini. Although worth millions when they married?the ceremony occurred three days after Topping was divorced from his third wife, actress Arline Judge, who had been previously married to his brother Dan?Topping suffered heavy financial losses due to poor investments and excessive gambling. The couple's marriage resulted in a church trial for the officiant because the marriage took place less than a year after Topping's divorce from Judge. Actor Lex Barker (1953?1957), whom she divorced. In a book written by Cheryl Crane, Crane claimed that he repeatedly molested and raped her, and that it was after she told her mother this that they divorced.Rancher Frederick "Fred" May (1960?1962), who was a member of the May department-store family.Robert P. Eaton (1965?1969);. A movie producer, he went on to write The Body Brokers, a behind-the-scenes look at the Hollywood movie world, featuring a character named Marla Jordan, based on Turner.Nightclub hypnotist Ronald Pellar, also known as Ronald Dante or Dr. Dante (1969?1972). The couple met in 1969 in a Los Angeles discotheque and married that same year. After about six months of marriage, Pellar disappeared a few days after Turner had written a $35, 000 check to him to help him in an investment; he used the money for other purposes. In addition, she later accused him of stealing $100, 000 worth of jewelry. She laterfamously said, "My goal was tohave one husband and seven children, but it turned out to be the other way around."Turner metJohnny Stompanato during the spring of 1957, shortly after ending her marriage to Barker.At first, Turner was susceptible toStompanato's good looks and prowess as a lover, but after she discovered his ties to the Los Angeles underworld (in particular, his association with gangster Mickey Cohen), she tried to break off the affair out of fear ofbad publicity. Stompanato was noteasily deterred, however, and over the course of the following year, they carried on a relationship filled with violentarguments, physical abuse andrepeated reconciliations.In the fallof 1957, Stompanato followed Turnerto Englandwhere she was filming Another Time, Another Place (1958) costarring Sean Connery.Afraid that Turner was having an affair with Connery, Stompanato stormed onto the set brandishing a gun.Connery punched Stompanato's jaw once and took away his gun. Stompanato was soon deported by Scotland Yard forthe incident. On theevening of April 4, 1958, Turner and Stompanato began a violent argument inTurner's house at 730 N. Bedford Drive in Beverly Hills. Fearing her mother's life was in danger, Turner's fourteen-year-old daughter, Cheryl, grabbed a kitchen knife and ran to Turner's defense.Many theories abound as to what happened afterward, but it appears the teenager stabbed Stompanato, killing him. The case quickly becamea media sensation. It was laterdeemed a justifiable homicide at a coroner's inquest, at which Turner provided dramatic testimony.Some observers have said her testimony that day was the acting performance ofher life. In 1969, Turner appeared in her only lead starring role ontelevision in ABC's Harold Robbins' The Survivors, but despite the presence of other big-name stars, the program fared badly opposite Mayberry R.F.D.and The Doris Day Show on CBS and The NBC Monday Movie, and was cancelled midway into the season.In the 1970sand 1980s, Turner appeared inseveral television roles, mostnotably as a guest star for several episodes on the series Falcon Crestas Jaqueline Perrault, but themajority of her final decade was spent out of the public eye.She died atthe age of 74 in 1995 of complications from throat cancer, which was diagnosed in 1992 and which she had been battling ever since, at her home in Century City, Los Angeles, California. She was, until her death, a very heavy smoker.Turner wassurvived by Cheryl Crane, her onlychild, and Crane's life partnerJoyce "Josh" LeRoy, whomshe said she accepted "as a second daughter".They inherited some of Turner's sizable estate, built through shrewd real estate holdings and investments.However, the majority of her estatewas left to her maid, Carmen LopezCruz.For hercontribution to the motion-picture industry, Turner has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6241 Hollywood Boulevard.In 1983, Turner suffered a heart attack but recovered. In the mid-1990s, Turner spoke of her belief in God. Turner isthe subject of the poem "Lana Turner has collapsed" by the poet FrankO'Hara.Turner andStompanato appear as minor characters in James Ellroy's novel L.A.Confidential.Turnerappears mentioned on the rap section of Madonna's "Vogue" next tostars from the Golden Age era of Hollywoodlike Bette Davis or Marilyn Monroe and in Nina Simone's "My baby justcares for me.Filmography Films and roles Title Year Role Co-stars Notes They Won't Forget 1937 Mary Clay Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson Topper 1937 Uncredited Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young, Billie Burke The Great Garrick 1937 Mademoiselle Auber Brian Aherne, Olivia de Havilland The Adventures of Marco Polo 1938 Nazama'a Maid Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone Love Finds Andy Hardy 1938 Cynthia Potter Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland The Chaser 1938 Miss Rutherford (scenes deleted) Dennis O'Keefe, Ann Morriss, Lewis Stone Four's a Crowd 1938 Passerby (uncredited) Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell, Patric Knowles Rich Man, Poor Girl 1938 Helen Thayer Robert Young, Lew Ayres, Ruth Hussey Dramatic School 1938 Mado Luise Rainer, Paulette Goddard Calling Dr. Kildare 1939 Rosalie Lewett Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day These Glamour Girls 1939 Jane Thomas Lew Ayres Dancing Co-Ed 1939 Patty Marlow Richard Carlson, Artie Shaw Turner met her future husband Artie Shaw on this film and they married soon after Two Girls on Broadway 1940 Patricia 'Pat' Mahoney Joan Blondell, George Murphy Remake of the 1929 hit film The Broadway Melody We Who Are Young 1940 Marjorie White Brooks John Shelton Ziegfeld Girl 1941 Sheila Regan James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr Turner's breakthrough role Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1941 Bea Emery Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman Turner was originally to play Ivy Pearson the prostitute, with Bergman playing Bea. However the roles were switched. Honky Tonk 1941 Elizabeth Cotton Clark Gable, Claire Trevor Turner's first of four films with Clark Gable Johnny Eager 1942 Lisbeth Bard Robert Taylor, Van Heflin Somewhere I'll Find You 1942 Paula Lane Clark Gable, Robert Sterling Second film starring Turner and Gable The Youngest Profession 1943 Herself (guest star) Virginia Weidler, John Carroll Cameo role Slightly Dangerous 1943 Peggy Evans/Carol Burden Robert Young, Walter Brennan Du Barry Was a Lady 1943 Cameo Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly Uncredited guest star Marriage Is a Private Affair 1944 Theo Scofield West John Hodiak, James Craig Keep Your Powder Dry 1945 Valerie 'Val' Parks Laraine Day, Susan Peters Week-End at the Waldorf 1945 Bunny Smith Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson Remake of the 1932 film Grand Hotel. Turner played the role similar to Joan Crawford's in that film The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Cora Smith John Garfield Considered to be Turner's greatest performance and her signature film. Turner herself regarded this as one of her personal favorites Green Dolphin Street 1947 Marianne Patourel Van Heflin, Donna Reed, Richard Hart Cass Timberlane 1947 Virginia Marshland Spencer Tracy Homecoming 1948 Jane 'Snapshot' McCall Clark Gable, Anne Baxter, John Hodiak Third film starring Turner and Gable The Three Musketeers 1948 Milady de Winter Gene Kelly, Vincent Price, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Angela Lansbury A Life of Her Own 1950 Lily Brannel James Ray Milland, Louis Calhern, Ann Dvorak The only film Turner made with George Cukor as director Mr. Imperium 1951 Fredda Barlo Ezio Pinza The Merry Widow 1952 Crystal Radek Fernando Lamas The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Georgia Lorrison Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Gloria Grahame Latin Lovers 1953 Nora Taylor Ricardo Montalban Flame and the Flesh 1954 Madeline Pier Angeli, Carlos Thompson Betrayed 1954 Carla Van Oven Clark Gable, Victor Mature Fourth and final film starring Turner and Gable The Prodigal 1955 Samarra Edmund Purdom, Louis Calhern The Sea Chase 1955 Elsa Keller John Wayne The Rains of Ranchipur 1955 Lady Edwina Esketh Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray Diane 1956 Diane de Poitiers Roger Moore, Marisa Pavan, Pedro Armendariz Turner's last film under her 18 year contract with MGM. Peyton Place 1957 Constance MacKenzie Lee Philips, Hope Lange, Diane Varsi, Russ Tamblyn, Arthur Kennedy Nominated?Academy Award for Best Actress The Lady Takes a Flyer 1958 Maggie Colby Jeff Chandler Another Time, Another Place 1958 Sara Scott Sean Connery, Barry Sullivan Imitation of Life 1959 Lora Meredith John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Juanita Moore, Susan Kohner Turner's most successful film. The last film directed by Douglas Sirk Portrait in Black 1960 Sheila Cabot Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee, John Saxon Directed by Michael Gordon By Love Possessed 1961 Marjorie Penrose Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Jason Robards Bachelor in Paradise 1961 Rosemary Howard Bob Hope Who's Got the Action? 1962 Melanie Flood Dean Martin Love Has Many Faces 1965 Kit Jordan Cliff Robertson, Ruth Roman Madame X 1966 Holly Parker John Forsythe, Constance Bennett, Burgess Meredith, Ricardo Montalban The Big Cube 1969 Adriana Roman George Chakiris, Karin Mossberg, Richard Egan Persecution 1974 Carrie Masters Trevor Howard Bittersweet Love 1976 Claire Robert Lansing, Celeste Holm Witches' Brew 1980 Vivian Cross Teri Garr, Richard Benjamin Thwarted 1991 Margo Lane William Hauckes, Victor Helou Turner's last film appearance
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DESCRIPTION: Original vintage 1941 gelatin silver photograph... (see mimeographed publicity stamp on verso) of actress LANA TURNER promoting the film "Ziefeld Girl".
- SIZE: approx. 8" X 10"
- TONE: B&W
- FINISH: glossy
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SHIPPING TERMS
- I ship all items using, what I call, triple protection packing.The photos are inserted into a display bag with a white board, thenpacked in between two thick packaging boards and lastly wrapped withplastic film for weather protection before being placed into theshipping envelope.
- The shipping cost for U.S. shipments includes USPS "Delivery Confirmation" tracking.
- Combined Shipping Discounts:If you purchasemore than one item within a two week period that will be shippedtogether just add $2.00 to the base shipping cost. This will cover anyadditional quantity of a similar item purchased. If you purchasedifferent types of items (i.e. clothes andphotos) please contact me for the lowest possible shipping discount. Please wait for me to issue the invoice with the reduced shipping cost before making payment.
PAYMENT TERMS
- Please pay within three (3) days of purchase.
- I reserve the right to re-list the item(s) if payment is not received within seven (7) days.
- California residents - please wait for me to adjust the invoice to include California Sales Tax of 7.25% and 9.50% for Los Angeles residents.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
I will respond to all inquiries within 24 hours. Please feel free to contact me anytime at 1-310-880-8140 (Pacific Standard Time)
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LANATURNER BIO (February 8, 1921 ? June 29, 1995) was an American actress.Discoveredand signed to a film contract by MGM at the age of sixteen, Turner first attracted attention in They Won'tForget (1937). She playedfeatured roles, often as the ingenue, in such films as Love Finds Andy Hardy(1938). During the early 1940s sheestablished 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 Hollywoodscream queens thanks to her role in the 1941 horror film Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, and her reputation as aglamorous femme fatale was enhanced by her performance in the film noir ThePostman 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 nominatedfor an Academy Award for Best Actress.In 1958, her daughter, Cheryl Crane, stabbed Turner's loverJohnny Stompanato to death. Acoroner's inquest brought considerable media attention to Turner and concludedthat Crane had acted in self defense.Turner's next film, Imitation ofLife (1959), proved to be one ofthe greatest successes of her career, but from the early 1960s, her roleswere fewer. She gained recognitionnear the end of her career with a recurring guest role in the television seriesFalcon Crest during 1982 and 1983.Turner madeher final television appearance in 1991, and died from throat cancer in 1995.Born JuliaJean Turner in Wallace, Idaho, she was the daughter of John Virgil Madison Turner, a miner from Hohenwald, Tennessee (died December 14, 1930), and Mildred Frances Cowan, a sixteen-year-old native of Arkansas (died February 22, 1982). A common and often repeatederror is to add the given names of her mother Mildred Frances to her birth name. These names she used when she converted toCatholicism. Until herfilm career took off, young JuliaTurner was known to family and friends as "Judy". Hard times eventually forced the family tore-locate to San Francisco, where her parents soon separated. On December 14, 1930, her father won some money at atraveling craps game, stuffed hiswinnings in his left sock, andheaded for home. He was later founddead on the corner of Minnesota and MariposaStreets, on the edge of Potrero Hilland the Dogpatch District in San Francisco, his left shoe and sock missing. Therobbery and murder were never solved.Soon after, her mother developedhealth problems and was advised by her doctor to move to a drier climate. With her ten-year-old daughter, she moved to Los Angeles in 1931.Mildred andLana were very poor, and Turner wassometimes separated from her mother, living with friends or acquaintances so that the family could save money. Her mother worked as a beautician to support them. After Turner was discovered, her mother became the overseer of Turner's career.Turner'sdiscovery at a Hollywood drug store is ashow-business legend. As asixteen-year-old student at Hollywood High School, Turner skipped a typing class and bought a Coke atthe Top Hat Cafe located on the southeast corner of Sunset Boulevard and McCadden Place (notSchwab's Pharmacy), where she wasspotted by William R. Wilkerson, publisher of The Hollywood Reporter. Wilkerson was attracted by her beauty and physique, and referred her to the actor/comedian/talentagent Zeppo Marx. Marx's agencyimmediately signed her on and introduced her to film director Mervyn LeRoy, who cast her in her first film, They Won't Forget (1937).Turner earnedthe nickname "The Sweater Girl" from her form-fitting attire in ascene in They Won't Forget.According to her daughter, this wasa nickname Turner detested throughout her entire career.In late 1937, she signed a contractwith Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $100 a week, and graduated from high school in between takes.According to LeRoy, it was thanks tohim that she made the switch, for heleft Warners to work at MGM and was advised by studio head Jack Warner to takeher with him, because Warnerbelieved that she wouldn't "amount to anything."Her first starring role for MGM was scheduled to be an adaption of TheSea-Wolf, co-starring ClarkGable, but the project waseventually canned. Instead, she was assigned opposite teen idol Mickey Rooneyin the Andy Hardy film Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938). It was this appearance that convinced Louis B. Mayer that LeRoy's protégé Turner could be thenext Jean Harlow, a sex symbol whohad died six months before Turner's arrival at MGM.Mayer turnedher into a glamorous star, mostlypopular among college boys, and gaveher the leads in several teen-oriented films in the late 1930s and early 1940s, such as Dramatic School (1938), These Glamour Girls (1939) and DancingCo-Ed (1939). In early 1940, she was also set to star in a remake of OurDancing Daughters, but the filmwas never made. From the beginningof her career, Turner stood herground on her beliefs and was one of the few actresses at MGM to go againstMayer's wishes. Turnerreached the height of her fame in the 1940s and 1950s.During World War II, Turner became apopular pin-up girl due to her popularity in such films such as ZiegfeldGirl (1941), Johnny Eager(1942), and four films withMetro?Goldwyn?Mayer's "king of the lot, "Clark Gable. The Turner-Gable films'successes were only heightened by gossip-column rumors about a relationshipbetween the two. Turner even had aB-17 Flying Fortress?the Tempest Turner?named after her. Following the canned The Sea Wolf project, Turner and Gable were set to star in The Uniformin December 1940. Turner waseventually replaced by Rosalind Russell and the film was released as TheyMet in Bombay (1941).Meanwhile, Turner was receiving much publicity for herpersonal life, and her career wasone of the very few to be furthered by this.MGM boosted this by changing the title of her latest film to SlightlyDangerous (1943). After thewar, Turner's career continuedsuccessfully with the release, in ThePostman Always Rings Twice (1946), which co-starred John Garfield. Asclaimed in a documentary, Turner didnot get along with him and when she found he was her male lead, she responded: "Couldn't they at least hiresomeone attractive?" The now-classic film noir marked a turning point inher career, and it marked Turner'sfirst femme fatale role. Reviews ofthe film, and in particular, Turner's performance, were glowing, with a critic of TheNew York Times writing it was "the role of her career." While not exactly giving up her pin-upcredentials, Turner establishedherself as a skilled actress. ThePostman Always Rings Twice was thus a turning point in her career. Turner commented on this:"Ifinally got tired of making movies where all I did was walk across the screenand look pretty. I got a big chanceto do some real acting in The Postman Always Rings Twice, and I'm not going to slip back if I can help it. I tried to persuade the studio to give mesomething different. But every timeI went into my argument about how bad a picture was they'd say, 'well, it's making a fortune.' That lickedme." She got therole after turning down "four pretty-pretty parts in a row." The film became a box office success, which prompted the studio to take more risks onthe star. In August 1946, it was announced Turner was set to replaceKatharine Hepburn in the big budgeted historical drama Green Dolphin Street (1947), a role for which she darkened her hair and lost 15pounds. She was cast due to thepersistance of producer Carey Wilson, who was overwhelmed by her performance in The Postman Always Rings Twice. Turner later recalled she was surprised aboutreplacing Hepburn, saying: "AndI guess I'm about the most un-Hepburnish actress on the lot. But it was just what I wanted to do." It was her first starring role that did notcenter on her looks. In an interview, Turner said: "I even go running around in thejungles of New Zealandin a dress that's filthy and ragged.I don't wear any make-up and my hair's a mess."Nevertheless, she insisted she wouldnot give up her glamorous image.]Later thatyear, Turner headlined CassTimberlane, a role that JenniferJones, Vivien Leigh and VirginiaGrey were previously considered for.As of early 1946, Turner was set forthe role, but schedules with GreenDolphin Street almost prohibited her from taking the role, and by late 1946, she was almost recast. Production ofCass Timberlane was very exhausting for Turner, as it was shot in between retakes of Green Dolphin Street. Nevertheless, she took the female lead in Homecoming (1948) in August 1947, only moments after finishing Cass Timberlane. She was the studio's first choice for the role, but they were reluctant to offer her the part, considering her overbooked schedule. Paired again with Clark Gable in Homecoming, their chemistry projected on the screen was wellreceived by the audience, and theywere nicknamed "the team that generates steam".By this period, Turner achieved themilestone of her film career, andwas not only MGM's most popular star, but also one of the ten best paid women in the United States.In 1948, Turner appeared in her first Technicolor film, appearing as Lady de Winter in The ThreeMusketeers, opposite Gene Kelly, Van Heflin and June Allyson.In November 1947, she agreed to dothe film, thereby giving up anunfinished film project called Bedeviled.However, in January 1948 it wasreported that she had withdrawn from the film.Initially, Louis B. Mayer gave her permission for doing so because ofher schedule, but she was later thatmonth put on suspension. Eventually, Turner agreed to make the film, but did not start production until March due tohaving to lose weight. In 1949, she was to headline A Life of Her Own(1950). The project was shelved forseveral months, and Turner insistedin December 1949 that she had nothing to do with it, saying: "Everybody agrees that the script is still a pile of junk. I'm anxious to get started.By the time this one comes out, itwill be almost three years since I was last on the screen, in The Three Musketeers. Idon't think it's healthy to stay off the screen that long."During the1950s, Turner starred in a series offilms that failed to succeed at the box office, a situation MGM attempted to remedy by casting her in musicals. The first, Mr. Imperium (1951), was a flop, while The Merry Widow (1952) was more successful.She gave a widely praised performance in Vincente Minnelli's film, The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), and later starred with John Wayne in the adventurefilm The Sea Chase (1955).She was then cast in the epic The Prodigal (1955), but the film and her performance in general were not well received. After the film Diane (1956), MGM opted not to renew her contract. This was a difficult time for Hollywood's major studios because a recentcourt decision forced them to divest themselves of their movie theaters. In addition, television had caught on in a big way; the public was staying home. Turner was just one of MGM's star roster to be letgo.Turner'scareer recovered briefly after she appeared in the hugely successful big-screenadaptation of Grace Metalious's best-selling novel, Peyton Place (1957), forwhich she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Another few box-office failures followed (AnotherTime, Another Place (1958), for example) when the 1958 scandal surrounding herdaughter's killing of Stompanato threatened to derail her career completely.In the trailof the related negative publicity, Turner accepted the lead role in Ross Hunter's remake of Imitation of Life(1959) under the direction of Douglas Sirk.Universal Studios capitalized on her new-found notoriety; the result was one ofthe biggest hits of the year, aswell as the biggest hit of Turner's career: she owned 50% of the earnings ofthe picture and for only the first year of the film's career she earned $11million. Critics and audiencescouldn't help noticing that the plots of both Peyton Place and Imitation ofLife had borrowed heavily from Turner's private life.Each film depicted the troubled, complicated relationship between a single mother and her teenage daughter.She made herlast film at MGM starring with Bob Hope in Bachelor in Paradise (1961). Other highlights of this era include two Hunterproductions (for whom she did Imitation of Life), Portrait in Black (1960) and Madame X (1966), which proved to be her last major starring role.Turner waswell known inside Hollywood circles for datingoften, changing partners often, and for never shying away from the topic of howmany lovers she had in her lifetime.Turner wasmarried eight times to seven different husbands:Bandleader Artie Shaw (1940). Married only four months, Turner was 19 when she and Shaw eloped on their first date. The sudden marriage was highly publicized, and there was even talks of MGM releasing her from her contract. She later referred to their stormy and verbally abusive relationship as "my college education".Actor and restaurateur Joseph Stephen Crane (1942?1943, 1943?1944). Turner and Crane's first marriage was annulled after she discovered that Crane's previous divorce had not yet been finalized. After a brief separation (during which Crane attempted suicide), they re-married to provide for their newborn daughter, Cheryl.Millionaire socialite Henry J. Topping Jr. (1948?1952). A brother of Dan Topping, owner of the New York Yankees, and a grandson of tin-plate magnate Daniel G. Reid, "Bob" Topping proposed to Turner at the 21 Club in Los Angeles by dropping a diamond ring into her martini. Although worth millions when they married?the ceremony occurred three days after Topping was divorced from his third wife, actress Arline Judge, who had been previously married to his brother Dan?Topping suffered heavy financial losses due to poor investments and excessive gambling. The couple's marriage resulted in a church trial for the officiant because the marriage took place less than a year after Topping's divorce from Judge. Actor Lex Barker (1953?1957), whom she divorced. In a book written by Cheryl Crane, Crane claimed that he repeatedly molested and raped her, and that it was after she told her mother this that they divorced.Rancher Frederick "Fred" May (1960?1962), who was a member of the May department-store family.Robert P. Eaton (1965?1969);. A movie producer, he went on to write The Body Brokers, a behind-the-scenes look at the Hollywood movie world, featuring a character named Marla Jordan, based on Turner.Nightclub hypnotist Ronald Pellar, also known as Ronald Dante or Dr. Dante (1969?1972). The couple met in 1969 in a Los Angeles discotheque and married that same year. After about six months of marriage, Pellar disappeared a few days after Turner had written a $35, 000 check to him to help him in an investment; he used the money for other purposes. In addition, she later accused him of stealing $100, 000 worth of jewelry. She laterfamously said, "My goal was tohave one husband and seven children, but it turned out to be the other way around."Turner metJohnny Stompanato during the spring of 1957, shortly after ending her marriage to Barker.At first, Turner was susceptible toStompanato's good looks and prowess as a lover, but after she discovered his ties to the Los Angeles underworld (in particular, his association with gangster Mickey Cohen), she tried to break off the affair out of fear ofbad publicity. Stompanato was noteasily deterred, however, and over the course of the following year, they carried on a relationship filled with violentarguments, physical abuse andrepeated reconciliations.In the fallof 1957, Stompanato followed Turnerto Englandwhere she was filming Another Time, Another Place (1958) costarring Sean Connery.Afraid that Turner was having an affair with Connery, Stompanato stormed onto the set brandishing a gun.Connery punched Stompanato's jaw once and took away his gun. Stompanato was soon deported by Scotland Yard forthe incident. On theevening of April 4, 1958, Turner and Stompanato began a violent argument inTurner's house at 730 N. Bedford Drive in Beverly Hills. Fearing her mother's life was in danger, Turner's fourteen-year-old daughter, Cheryl, grabbed a kitchen knife and ran to Turner's defense.Many theories abound as to what happened afterward, but it appears the teenager stabbed Stompanato, killing him. The case quickly becamea media sensation. It was laterdeemed a justifiable homicide at a coroner's inquest, at which Turner provided dramatic testimony.Some observers have said her testimony that day was the acting performance ofher life. In 1969, Turner appeared in her only lead starring role ontelevision in ABC's Harold Robbins' The Survivors, but despite the presence of other big-name stars, the program fared badly opposite Mayberry R.F.D.and The Doris Day Show on CBS and The NBC Monday Movie, and was cancelled midway into the season.In the 1970sand 1980s, Turner appeared inseveral television roles, mostnotably as a guest star for several episodes on the series Falcon Crestas Jaqueline Perrault, but themajority of her final decade was spent out of the public eye.She died atthe age of 74 in 1995 of complications from throat cancer, which was diagnosed in 1992 and which she had been battling ever since, at her home in Century City, Los Angeles, California. She was, until her death, a very heavy smoker.Turner wassurvived by Cheryl Crane, her onlychild, and Crane's life partnerJoyce "Josh" LeRoy, whomshe said she accepted "as a second daughter".They inherited some of Turner's sizable estate, built through shrewd real estate holdings and investments.However, the majority of her estatewas left to her maid, Carmen LopezCruz.For hercontribution to the motion-picture industry, Turner has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6241 Hollywood Boulevard.In 1983, Turner suffered a heart attack but recovered. In the mid-1990s, Turner spoke of her belief in God. Turner isthe subject of the poem "Lana Turner has collapsed" by the poet FrankO'Hara.Turner andStompanato appear as minor characters in James Ellroy's novel L.A.Confidential.Turnerappears mentioned on the rap section of Madonna's "Vogue" next tostars from the Golden Age era of Hollywoodlike Bette Davis or Marilyn Monroe and in Nina Simone's "My baby justcares for me.Filmography Films and roles Title Year Role Co-stars Notes They Won't Forget 1937 Mary Clay Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson Topper 1937 Uncredited Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young, Billie Burke The Great Garrick 1937 Mademoiselle Auber Brian Aherne, Olivia de Havilland The Adventures of Marco Polo 1938 Nazama'a Maid Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone Love Finds Andy Hardy 1938 Cynthia Potter Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland The Chaser 1938 Miss Rutherford (scenes deleted) Dennis O'Keefe, Ann Morriss, Lewis Stone Four's a Crowd 1938 Passerby (uncredited) Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell, Patric Knowles Rich Man, Poor Girl 1938 Helen Thayer Robert Young, Lew Ayres, Ruth Hussey Dramatic School 1938 Mado Luise Rainer, Paulette Goddard Calling Dr. Kildare 1939 Rosalie Lewett Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day These Glamour Girls 1939 Jane Thomas Lew Ayres Dancing Co-Ed 1939 Patty Marlow Richard Carlson, Artie Shaw Turner met her future husband Artie Shaw on this film and they married soon after Two Girls on Broadway 1940 Patricia 'Pat' Mahoney Joan Blondell, George Murphy Remake of the 1929 hit film The Broadway Melody We Who Are Young 1940 Marjorie White Brooks John Shelton Ziegfeld Girl 1941 Sheila Regan James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr Turner's breakthrough role Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1941 Bea Emery Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman Turner was originally to play Ivy Pearson the prostitute, with Bergman playing Bea. However the roles were switched. Honky Tonk 1941 Elizabeth Cotton Clark Gable, Claire Trevor Turner's first of four films with Clark Gable Johnny Eager 1942 Lisbeth Bard Robert Taylor, Van Heflin Somewhere I'll Find You 1942 Paula Lane Clark Gable, Robert Sterling Second film starring Turner and Gable The Youngest Profession 1943 Herself (guest star) Virginia Weidler, John Carroll Cameo role Slightly Dangerous 1943 Peggy Evans/Carol Burden Robert Young, Walter Brennan Du Barry Was a Lady 1943 Cameo Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly Uncredited guest star Marriage Is a Private Affair 1944 Theo Scofield West John Hodiak, James Craig Keep Your Powder Dry 1945 Valerie 'Val' Parks Laraine Day, Susan Peters Week-End at the Waldorf 1945 Bunny Smith Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson Remake of the 1932 film Grand Hotel. Turner played the role similar to Joan Crawford's in that film The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Cora Smith John Garfield Considered to be Turner's greatest performance and her signature film. Turner herself regarded this as one of her personal favorites Green Dolphin Street 1947 Marianne Patourel Van Heflin, Donna Reed, Richard Hart Cass Timberlane 1947 Virginia Marshland Spencer Tracy Homecoming 1948 Jane 'Snapshot' McCall Clark Gable, Anne Baxter, John Hodiak Third film starring Turner and Gable The Three Musketeers 1948 Milady de Winter Gene Kelly, Vincent Price, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Angela Lansbury A Life of Her Own 1950 Lily Brannel James Ray Milland, Louis Calhern, Ann Dvorak The only film Turner made with George Cukor as director Mr. Imperium 1951 Fredda Barlo Ezio Pinza The Merry Widow 1952 Crystal Radek Fernando Lamas The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Georgia Lorrison Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Gloria Grahame Latin Lovers 1953 Nora Taylor Ricardo Montalban Flame and the Flesh 1954 Madeline Pier Angeli, Carlos Thompson Betrayed 1954 Carla Van Oven Clark Gable, Victor Mature Fourth and final film starring Turner and Gable The Prodigal 1955 Samarra Edmund Purdom, Louis Calhern The Sea Chase 1955 Elsa Keller John Wayne The Rains of Ranchipur 1955 Lady Edwina Esketh Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray Diane 1956 Diane de Poitiers Roger Moore, Marisa Pavan, Pedro Armendariz Turner's last film under her 18 year contract with MGM. Peyton Place 1957 Constance MacKenzie Lee Philips, Hope Lange, Diane Varsi, Russ Tamblyn, Arthur Kennedy Nominated?Academy Award for Best Actress The Lady Takes a Flyer 1958 Maggie Colby Jeff Chandler Another Time, Another Place 1958 Sara Scott Sean Connery, Barry Sullivan Imitation of Life 1959 Lora Meredith John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Juanita Moore, Susan Kohner Turner's most successful film. The last film directed by Douglas Sirk Portrait in Black 1960 Sheila Cabot Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee, John Saxon Directed by Michael Gordon By Love Possessed 1961 Marjorie Penrose Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Jason Robards Bachelor in Paradise 1961 Rosemary Howard Bob Hope Who's Got the Action? 1962 Melanie Flood Dean Martin Love Has Many Faces 1965 Kit Jordan Cliff Robertson, Ruth Roman Madame X 1966 Holly Parker John Forsythe, Constance Bennett, Burgess Meredith, Ricardo Montalban The Big Cube 1969 Adriana Roman George Chakiris, Karin Mossberg, Richard Egan Persecution 1974 Carrie Masters Trevor Howard Bittersweet Love 1976 Claire Robert Lansing, Celeste Holm Witches' Brew 1980 Vivian Cross Teri Garr, Richard Benjamin Thwarted 1991 Margo Lane William Hauckes, Victor Helou Turner's last film appearance
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