Lana Turner
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.
96 acting credits
Acting · 96
Falcon Crest
1981
The Love Boat
1977
The Carol Burnett Show
1967
What's My Line?
1950
The Oscars
1953
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
MGM Parade
1955
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Singin' in the Rain
1952
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946
Imitation of Life
1959
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941
Harold Robbins' The Survivors
1969
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
The Three Musketeers
1948
Peyton Place
1957
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940
Topper
1937
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
La Classe américaine
1993
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
The Sea Chase
1955
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
Ziegfeld Girl
1941
Diane
1956
Honky Tonk
1941
Madame X
1966
The Merry Widow
1952
The Rains of Ranchipur
1955
Bachelor in Paradise
1961
Betrayed
1954
The Prodigal
1955
That's Entertainment! III
1994
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942
Dancing Co-Ed
1939
Love Has Many Faces
1965
Cass Timberlane
1947
Show-Business at War
1943
Another Time, Another Place
1958
Calling Dr. Kildare
1939
Johnny Eager
1941
Who's Got the Action?
1962
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
The Adventures of Marco Polo
1938
Two Girls on Broadway
1940
Twenty Years After
1944
Homecoming
1948
Week-End at the Waldorf
1945
Showbiz Goes to War
1982
These Glamour Girls
1939
Slightly Dangerous
1943
Latin Lovers
1953
Green Dolphin Street
1947
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
Mr. Imperium
1951
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936
This Is Bob Hope...
2017
Portrait in Black
1960
The Hollywood Clowns
1979
Four's a Crowd
1938
The Youngest Profession
1943
A Life of Her Own
1950
Persecution
1974
We Who Are Young
1940
Reflections of Evil
2002
Bittersweet Love
1976
Love Finds Andy Hardy
1938
Witches' Brew
1980
They Won't Forget
1937
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002
By Love Possessed
1961
Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
1939
Keep Your Powder Dry
1945
The Lady Takes a Flyer
1958
Flame and the Flesh
1954
Andy Hardy Comes Home
1958
Marriage Is a Private Affair
1944
Trifles of Importance
1940
Dramatic School
1938
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
2001
The Great Garrick
1937
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
1992
Murders of Hollywood
2003
The Big Cube
1969
Rich Man, Poor Girl
1938
Strictly G.I.
1943
Great Lady Has an Interview
1954
Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Lana Turner
1996