Lana Turner
Birthday: 1921-02-08
Place of Birth: Wallace, Idaho, USA
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.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, ...
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Love Has Many Faces
A woman lives in Acapulco with moochers and a husband who married her for her money....
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no acc...
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The Bad and the Beautiful
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, ...
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband....
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Ziegfeld Girl
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautif...
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Imitation of Life
In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black...
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The Hollywood Clowns
Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history....
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The Sea Chase
As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, ...
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Johnny Eager
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love....
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The Three Musketeers
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends ...
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Madame X
Holly Parker, the wife of a wealthy diplomat, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who ha...
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Another Time, Another Place
In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent...
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Peyton Place
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tr...
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Reflections of Evil
Julie, a teen who died from a PCP overdose in the early '70s, searches from beyond the grave for her...
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Love Finds Andy Hardy
Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time....
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The Rains of Ranchipur
India. The spoilt and stubborn Edwina Esketh, comes to a small town with her husband. She falls in l...
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Somewhere I'll Find You
Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east...
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Trifles of Importance
Part of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this short shows how three seemingly unimportant thing...
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They Won't Forget
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration D...
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Showbiz Goes to War
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War ...
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to ...
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Bachelor in Paradise
A bachelor author of sleazy books moves to a family-oriented subdivision where he becomes an unoffic...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...
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The Big Cube
A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in ...
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Betrayed
When the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer initial...
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Who's Got the Action?
A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money....
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Week-End at the Waldorf
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a w...
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Honky Tonk
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Two Girls on Broadway
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He se...
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Marriage Is a Private Affair
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Persecution
A cat lover (Lana Turner) kills her husband, blackmails her lover (Trevor Howard) and torments her s...
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Homecoming
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t...
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Cass Timberlane
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby i...
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The Youngest Profession
Best friends Joan and Patricia are teenage autograph seekers who spend most of their day bumping int...
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Green Dolphin Street
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years l...
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The Lady Takes a Flyer
Change of pace comedy casts Lana Turner and Jeff Chandler as competing pilots who fall in love....
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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC....
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Calling Dr. Kildare
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in ...
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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir...
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By Love Possessed
An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner....
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The Great Garrick
A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his ...
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The Prodigal
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring ...
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The Adventures of Marco Polo
The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval Ch...
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The Merry Widow
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if t...
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Bittersweet Love
A pregnant woman and her husband discover they are half-brother and half-sister, thanks to his fathe...
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Slightly Dangerous
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a ne...
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Dramatic School
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works...
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A Life of Her Own
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modelin...
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Diane
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These Glamour Girls
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked...
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Keep Your Powder Dry
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps....
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Flame and the Flesh
American woman in Europe romanced by local gigolo; problems ensue....
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Du Barry Was a Lady
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a p...
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Witches' Brew
Three women use witchcraft to help their professor husbands further their careers. When a higher pos...
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Dancing Co-Ed
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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Strictly G.I.
A filmed broadcast of the Command Performance radio programs in which various Hollywood stars appear...
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Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
Two starstruck visitors to Hollywood sneak into the famous nightclub and end up in a Conga contest a...
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Topper
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to...
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That's Entertainment! III
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929...
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Andy Hardy Comes Home
Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and...
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Show-Business at War
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort....
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi...
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind th...
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Twenty Years After
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...
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Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary Clooney, R...
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This Is Bob Hope...
During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mas...
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insig...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Fr...
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Four's a Crowd
A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter....
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Singin' in the Rain
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen par...
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...
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La Classe américaine
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an ...
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Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Lana Turner
Rarely seen movie trailers reveal Lana Turner's rise to stardom. Hosted by Robert Osborne....
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Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
A rare behind the scenes look at the tragedies and bitter disappointments that plagued one of MGM's ...
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Great Lady Has an Interview
A brunette Lana Turner stars in this live song and dance performance of "A Great Lady Has An Intervi...
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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film....
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Murders of Hollywood
Sensational and shocking stories from Hollywood are not always fiction. Beyond anything a screenwrit...
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