Lana Turner facts for kids
Lana Turner (February 8, 1921 - June 29, 1995) was an American actress. She was born in Wallace, Idaho. She was first discovered and signed into movie contract by MGM when she was 16. She played mainly feature roles and was one of Hollywood's first scream queens. She would become very popular in the 1940s and 1950s. Turner appeared in the television series Falcon Crest during 1982 and 1983. The actress died from throat cancer in 1995 in Century City, Los Angeles.
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Judy Garland, Turner, and James Stewart on the set of Ziegfeld Girl (1941), which precipitated her rise at MGM
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Turner (center) with Maureen O'Hara, George Raft, and Wayne Morris arriving in Washington, D.C. to celebrate Franklin D. Roosevelt's birthday, 1941
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Turner with George Cukor on the set of A Life of Her Own (1950)
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Turner and Betty Field in Peyton Place (1957), which earned Turner an Academy Award nomination
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Turner's role in Madame X (1966), earned her a David di Donatello Golden Plaque
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Copies of the poem "Lana Turner has Collapsed" (1964) by Frank O'Hara at the Museum of the City of New York
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