Lana Turner
Born: 1921-02-08 in Wallace, Idaho, USA
Died: 1995-06-29
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2018
- Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
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)
2003
- Murders of Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2002
- Reflections of Evil as Tracy Carlyle Hastings (archive footage)
- Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001
- Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir as Self (archive footage)
1996
- Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Lana Turner as Self (archive footage)
1994
- That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
1993
- La Classe américaine as Isabelle (archive footage)
1988
- Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC as Self (archive footage)
- The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Self (archive footage)
1987
- Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
1985
- Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1983
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1982
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid as (in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (archive footage)
- Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
1981
- Falcon Crest as Jacqueline Perrault
- Entertainment Tonight as Self
1980
- Witches' Brew as Vivian Cross
1979
- The Hollywood Clowns as (archive footage)
1977
- The Love Boat as Elizabeth Raleigh
1976
- Bittersweet Love as Claire
- 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
- Harold Robbins' The Survivors
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
- Bachelor in Paradise as Rosemary Howard
- By Love Possessed as Marjorie Penrose
1960
- Portrait in Black as Sheila Cabot
1959
- Imitation of Life as Lora Meredith
1958
- Another Time, Another Place as Sara Scott
- The Lady Takes a Flyer as Maggie Colby
- Andy Hardy Comes Home as Cynthia Potter (archive footage) (uncredited)
1957
- Peyton Place as Constance MacKenzie
1956
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
- Diane as Diane de Poitiers - Countess de Breze
1955
- The Rains of Ranchipur as Lady Edwina Esketh
- The Prodigal as Samarra
- The Sea Chase as Elsa Keller
1954
- Betrayed as Carla Van Oven
- Flame and the Flesh as Madeline
- Great Lady Has an Interview as The Star
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Latin Lovers as Nora Taylor
1952
- Singin' in the Rain as Actress in 'The Royal Rascal' (uncredited)
- The Bad and the Beautiful as Georgia Lorrison
- The Merry Widow as Crystal Radek
1951
- Mr. Imperium as Fredda Barlo
1950
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- A Life of Her Own as Lily Brannel James
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Homecoming as Lt. Jane 'Snapshot' McCall
- The Three Musketeers as Lady De Winter
1947
- Cass Timberlane as Virginia 'Jinny' Marshland
- Green Dolphin Street as Marianne Patourel
1946
- The Postman Always Rings Twice as Cora Smith
1945
- Keep Your Powder Dry as Valerie Parks
- Week-End at the Waldorf as Bunny Smith
1944
- Twenty Years After as (archive footage)
- Marriage Is a Private Affair as Theodora "Theo" Scoffield West
1943
- Slightly Dangerous as Peggy Evans aka Carol Burden
- Du Barry Was a Lady as Lana Turner (uncredited)
- The Youngest Profession as Lana Turner
- Show-Business at War as Self
- Strictly G.I. as Self - Guest Star
1942
- Somewhere I'll Find You as Paula Lane
1941
- Johnny Eager as Lisbeth Bard
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Beatrix 'Bea' Emery
- Ziegfeld Girl as Sheila Regan
- Honky Tonk as Elizabeth Cotton
1940
- A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound as Self
- We Who Are Young as Marjorie White Brooks
- Trifles of Importance as Self (archive footage)
- Two Girls on Broadway as Pat Mahoney
1939
- Calling Dr. Kildare as Rosalie Lewett
- Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga as Herself (uncredited)
- Dancing Co-Ed as Patty Marlow
- These Glamour Girls as Jane Thomas
1938
- Dramatic School as Mado
- Love Finds Andy Hardy as Cynthia Potter
- Four's a Crowd as Passerby (uncredited)
- Rich Man, Poor Girl as Helen
- The Adventures of Marco Polo as Maid
1937
- Topper as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
- The Great Garrick as Mlle. Auber
- They Won't Forget as Mary Clay