Lana Turner
Age: 74 | From: Wallace, Idaho, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1921-02-08 18:11:34
Death: 1995-06-29 18:11:34
Aliases: Julia Jean Turner
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Wallace, Idaho, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 61
TV Involvements: 3
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
What's My Line?
(1950) Self - Mystery Guest
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
(1956) Self
The Oscars
(1953) Self
The Three Musketeers
(1948) Lady De Winter
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(1941) Beatrix 'Bea' Emery
Imitation of Life
(1959) Lora Meredith
The Postman Always Rings Twice
(1946) Cora Smith
The Bad and the Beautiful
(1952) Georgia LorrisonActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2018 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2017 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2009 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2004 | Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice (archive footage) | |
| 2002 | Tracy Carlyle Hastings (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | ||
| 2001 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1996 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1994 | (archive footage) | |
| 1993 | Isabelle (archive footage) | |
| 1988 | (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1985 | Self | |
| 1983 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 1982 | (archive footage) | |
| (in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (archive footage) | ||
| 1981 | N/A | |
| 1980 | Vivian Cross | |
| 1979 | (archive footage) | |
| 1976 | Claire | |
| (archive footage) | ||
| 1974 | Carrie Masters | |
| 1972 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1969 | N/A | |
| Adriana Roman | ||
| Tracy Carlyle Hastings | ||
| 1967 | Self - Guest / Various Characters | |
| 1966 | Holly Parker | |
| 1965 | (archive footage) | |
| Kit Jordon | ||
| 1962 | Melanie Flood | |
| 1961 | 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Rosemary Howard | ||
| Marjorie Penrose | ||
| 1960 | Sheila Cabot | |
| 1959 | Lora Meredith | |
| 1958 | Cynthia Potter (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Sara Scott | ||
| Maggie Colby | ||
| 1957 | Constance MacKenzie | |
| 1956 | Self | |
| Diane de Poitiers - Countess de Breze | ||
| 1955 | Lady Edwina Esketh | |
| Elsa Keller | ||
| Samarra | ||
| 1954 | Carla Van Oven | |
| Madeline | ||
| 1953 | Nora Taylor | |
| Self | ||
| 1952 | Georgia Lorrison | |
| Crystal Radek | ||
| Actress in 'The Royal Rascal' (uncredited) | ||
| 1951 | Fredda Barlo | |
| 1950 | Lily Brannel James | |
| Self - Mystery Guest | ||
| 1948 | Lady De Winter | |
| Self | ||
| Lt. Jane 'Snapshot' McCall | ||
| 1947 | Virginia 'Jinny' Marshland | |
| Marianne Patourel | ||
| 1946 | Cora Smith | |
| 1945 | Bunny Smith | |
| Valerie Parks | ||
| 1944 | Theodora "Theo" Scoffield West | |
| (archive footage) | ||
| 1943 | Lana Turner (uncredited) | |
| Self | ||
| Peggy Evans aka Carol Burden | ||
| Lana Turner | ||
| Self - Guest Star | ||
| 1942 | Paula Lane | |
| 1941 | Lisbeth 'Liz' Bard | |
| Elizabeth Cotton | ||
| Beatrix 'Bea' Emery | ||
| Sheila Regan | ||
| 1940 | Self | |
| Marjorie White Brooks | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Pat Mahoney | ||
| 1939 | Patty Marlow | |
| Herself (uncredited) | ||
| Jane Thomas | ||
| Rosalie Lewett | ||
| 1938 | Mado | |
| Helen | ||
| Passerby (uncredited) | ||
| Cynthia Potter | ||
| Maid | ||
| 1937 | Mlle. Auber | |
| Nightclub Patron (uncredited) | ||
| Mary Clay | ||
| 1936 | Self | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Co-Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |