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Lana Turner
Lana Turner

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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  • Young girl walking uphill

    Turner at age five in Wallace

  • Man and woman seated in car

    Turner with Lew Ayres in These Glamour Girls (1939)

  • Judy Garland, Lana Turner, and James Stewart

    Judy Garland, Turner, and James Stewart on the set of Ziegfeld Girl (1941), which precipitated her rise at MGM

  • Five people deboarding a plane, posing for a photo; two women stand on the left, while three men flank them on the right

    Turner (center) with Maureen O'Hara, George Raft, and Wayne Morris arriving in Washington, D.C. to celebrate Franklin D. Roosevelt's birthday, 1941

  • Woman speaking into a microphone

    Turner performing on Suspense radio show, 1945

  • Woman in white wearing a towel on her head, clutching her chest

    Turner as Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), considered by many critics to be her career-defining performance

  • Lana Turner 1940s publicity portrait

    Lana Turner 1940s publicity portrait

  • Woman sitting in chair beside a man

    Turner with George Cukor on the set of A Life of Her Own (1950)

  • Two women facing one another

    Turner and Betty Field in Peyton Place (1957), which earned Turner an Academy Award nomination

  • Two women wearing sunglasses seated next to a man

    Turner (center) with ex-husband Steve Crane and mother Mildred at Cheryl's juvenile court hearing, April 24, 1958

  • Blonde woman

    Turner in Imitation of Life (1959)

  • Woman in headscarf

    Turner's role in Madame X (1966), earned her a David di Donatello Golden Plaque

  • Woman with short hair, smiling

    Turner at the ABC Television convention, 1969

  • Woman wearing flowered hairpiece looking into camera

    Turner in 1944

  • Lana Turner 1943

    Lana Turner in 1943

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