Lana Turner
Acting
🎂 1921-02-08
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.
Cast credits(96)
Self
1948
Self - Guest / Various Characters
1967
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Jacqueline Perrault
1981
Elizabeth Raleigh
1977
Elizabeth Raley
1977
Self
1956
Self
1953
1969
Self
1981
Actress in 'The Royal Rascal' (uncredited)
1952
Lora Meredith
1959
Cora Smith
1946
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
1937
Self (archive footage)
2018
Georgia Lorrison
1952
Beatrix 'Bea' Emery
1941
Self
1987
Lady De Winter
1948
Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice (archive footage)
2004
(archive footage)
1976
(in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (archive footage)
1982
Constance MacKenzie
1957
(archive footage)
1994
Self
1985
Maid
1938
Crystal Radek
1952
Lana Turner (uncredited)
1943
Carla Van Oven
1954
Elsa Keller
1955
Holly Parker
1966
Sheila Regan
1941
Marianne Patourel
1947
Bunny Smith
1945
Self (archive footage)
1988
Diane de Poitiers - Countess de Breze
1956
Marjorie White Brooks
1940
Marjorie Penrose
1961
Lana Turner
1943
Sheila Cabot
1960
Samarra
1955
Elizabeth Cotton
1941
Fredda Barlo
1951
Lady Edwina Esketh
1955
Isabelle (archive footage)
1993
Mary Clay
1937
Kit Jordon
1965
Lisbeth 'Liz' Bard
1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Rosemary Howard
1961
Cynthia Potter
1938
Rosalie Lewett
1939
Mado
1938
Nora Taylor
1953
Peggy Evans aka Carol Burden
1943
Passerby (uncredited)
1938
Theodora "Theo" Scoffield West
1944
(archive footage)
1982
Melanie Flood
1962
Sara Scott
1958
Self (archive footage)
2019
Virginia 'Jinny' Marshland
1947
Self (archive footage)
1972
Paula Lane
1942
Lily Brannel James
1950
Lt. Jane 'Snapshot' McCall
1948
Cynthia Potter (archive footage) (uncredited)
1958
Pat Mahoney
1940
(archive footage)
1944
Self (archive footage)
1988
Valerie Parks
1945
Jane Thomas
1939
Self
1943
Self (archive footage)
2017
Self (archive footage)
2009
Mlle. Auber
1937
(archive footage)
1979
Carrie Masters
1974
Herself (uncredited)
1939
Adriana Roman
1969
Self
1936
Self (archive footage)
2001
Maggie Colby
1958
'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961
Vivian Cross
1980
Self - Guest Star
1943
Claire
1976
Self (archive footage)
1940
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
The Star
1954
Self
1940
Helen
1938
Tracy Carlyle Hastings (archive footage)
2002
Patty Marlow
1939
Madeline
1954
Self (archive footage)
1996