
Acting
Community Rating
6.0
TMDB estimate
Born
February 8, 1921
Died
June 29, 1995 (age 74)
Born in
Wallace, Idaho, USA
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.

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2018

This Is Bob Hope...
as Self (archive footage)
2017

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Self (archive footage)
2009

Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice (archive footage)
2004

Murders of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2003

Reflections of Evil
as Tracy Carlyle Hastings (archive footage)
2002

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002

Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
as Self (archive footage)
2001

Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Lana Turner
as Self (archive footage)
1996

That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
1994

La Classe américaine
as Isabelle (archive footage)
1993

Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
1992

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
1988

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self (archive footage)
1988

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self
1987

Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
1985

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983

Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)
1982

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (archive footage)
1982

Falcon Crest
as Jacqueline Perrault
1981