Lana Turner facts for kids

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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  Turner at age five in Wallace, Idaho

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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 performing on Suspense radio show, 1945

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

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  Turner in a 1940s publicity portrait

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

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  Lana Turner in 1943

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

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

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  Turner in Imitation of Life (1959)

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

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  Turner in The Big Cube (1969)

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  Turner in 1944

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  Turner in 1943

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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