Lana Turner
Acting
Born 1921-02-08
Died 1995-06-29
Wallace, Idaho, USA
98 credits
Targa d'Oro 1
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Donostia Award 1
Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award 1
Awards
Nominated for 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 nominated
- 1958 Best Actress Nominated Peyton Place
Targa d'Oro 1 won
- — Targa d'Oro Won
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- — star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
Donostia Award 1 won
- 1995 Donostia Award Won
Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award 1 won
- 1975 Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award Won Persecution
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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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Filmography
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Acting
60 credits
Ciné regards
The Love Boat
Falcon Crest
The Carol Burnett Show
What's My Line?
The Oscars
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Singin' in the Rain
MGM Parade
Entertainment Tonight
The Three Musketeers
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Imitation of Life
The Bad and the Beautiful
Ziegfeld Girl
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Peyton Place
The Sea Chase
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Honky Tonk
Betrayed
That's Entertainment! III
That's Entertainment, Part II
La Classe américaine
Night of 100 Stars II
Topper
The Merry Widow
Harold Robbins' The Survivors
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Madame X
Cass Timberlane
Another Time, Another Place
Johnny Eager
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Bachelor in Paradise
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Diane
By Love Possessed
Reflections of Evil
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
The Prodigal
Who's Got the Action?
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Du Barry Was a Lady
The Youngest Profession
Slightly Dangerous
Twenty Years After
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Marriage Is a Private Affair
Mr. Imperium
This Is Bob Hope...
Green Dolphin Street
A Life of Her Own
Homecoming
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Somewhere I'll Find You
Portrait in Black
Producing
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