American actress and one of MGM's biggest stars of the 1940s and 50s, an Academy Award nominee for "Peyton Place".
Background
Born Julia Jean Turner in Wallace, Idaho, she moved with her mother to Hollywood after her father’s murder. Discovered at 16 at the Top Hat Cafe near Hollywood High School, she was renamed Lana by director Mervyn LeRoy.
Career
MGM developed her as a glamour star opposite Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, and John Garfield. “The Postman Always Rings Twice” (1946) sealed her film-noir credentials; Douglas Sirk’s “Imitation of Life” (1959) made her one of MGM’s last reigning leading ladies.
Style
Turner’s hourglass figure and platinum-blonde image defined Hollywood glamour. Her autobiography “Lana - The Lady, the Legend, the Truth” (1982) detailed her seven marriages and a famous 1958 court case involving her teenage daughter.
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