Lana Turner
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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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.0962 |
| Birthday | 1921-02-08 |
| Place of Birth | Wallace, Idaho, USA |
| Also Known As | Julia Jean Turner, Лана Тёрнер, Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner, |
1941
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6.5/195
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible c...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1965
Love Has Many Faces
5.222/9
A woman lives in Acapulco with moochers and a husband who married her for her money.
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1951
Mr. Imperium
5.091/11
An exiled king and a film star try to rekindle a romance from the past.
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Mr. Imperium
1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
6.643/462
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist...
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1952
The Bad and the Beautiful
7.266/308
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The Bad and the Beautiful
1946
The Postman Always Rings Twice
7.062/387
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1941
Ziegfeld Girl
6.65/40
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Ziegfeld Girl
1959
Imitation of Life
7.439/328
In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.
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1979
The Hollywood Clowns
0/0
Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.
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1955
The Sea Chase
6.306/54
As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrli...
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The Sea Chase
1941
Johnny Eager
6.2/51
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
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Johnny Eager
1948
The Three Musketeers
6.774/164
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1966
Madame X
6.4/44
Holly Parker, the wife of a wealthy diplomat, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who has been romantically pursuing her. She is forced by...
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1958
Another Time, Another Place
5.8/20
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1957
Peyton Place
6.7/94
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2002
Reflections of Evil
6.474/19
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1938
Love Finds Andy Hardy
6.234/32
Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.
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1955
The Rains of Ranchipur
5.4/17
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1960
Portrait in Black
5.685/26
A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman's rich husband.
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Portrait in Black
1942
Somewhere I'll Find You
5.7/14
Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.
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1940
Trifles of Importance
7.5/2
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Trifles of Importance
1937
They Won't Forget
5.9/33
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They Won't Forget
1982
Showbiz Goes to War
10/1
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1961
Bachelor in Paradise
6.34/25
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1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
7/3
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1969
The Big Cube
4.35/20
A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.
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The Big Cube
1954
Betrayed
5.8/23
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Betrayed
1962
Who's Got the Action?
5.2/13
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1945
Week-End at the Waldorf
6.4/13
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Week-End at the Waldorf
1941
Honky Tonk
6.4/18
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Honky Tonk
1940
Two Girls on Broadway
7/6
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1944
Marriage Is a Private Affair
7.1/5
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Marriage Is a Private Affair
1974
Persecution
3.6/5
A cat lover (Lana Turner) kills her husband, blackmails her lover (Trevor Howard) and torments her son (Ralph Bates).
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Persecution
1948
Homecoming
7.125/12
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1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
7.2/4
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension th...
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1947
Cass Timberlane
6/9
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorne...
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1943
The Youngest Profession
5.25/8
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1947
Green Dolphin Street
6.3/20
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Green Dolphin Street
1958
The Lady Takes a Flyer
4.4/7
Change of pace comedy casts Lana Turner and Jeff Chandler as competing pilots who fall in love.
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1988
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
6/3
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
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1939
Calling Dr. Kildare
6.556/9
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2018
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
5.9/44
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1961
By Love Possessed
5.2/10
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1937
The Great Garrick
6.583/12
A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.
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1955
The Prodigal
4.556/9
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the...
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1938
The Adventures of Marco Polo
6.184/19
The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.
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1952
The Merry Widow
6.3/12
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1976
Bittersweet Love
4/5
A pregnant woman and her husband discover they are half-brother and half-sister, thanks to his father and her mother.
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Bittersweet Love
1943
Slightly Dangerous
6/8
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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Slightly Dangerous
1953
Latin Lovers
4.7/10
An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil.
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Latin Lovers
1938
Dramatic School
6.5/7
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at nigh...
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Dramatic School
1950
A Life of Her Own
5.25/20
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.
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A Life of Her Own
1956
Diane
6/11
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
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Diane
1939
These Glamour Girls
5.864/11
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get...
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These Glamour Girls
1945
Keep Your Powder Dry
6.125/8
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
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Keep Your Powder Dry
1938
Rich Man, Poor Girl
6.111/9
A millionaire courts a working-class woman.
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Rich Man, Poor Girl
1954
Flame and the Flesh
10/2
American woman in Europe romanced by local gigolo; problems ensue.
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Flame and the Flesh
1943
Du Barry Was a Lady
6.5/18
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Loui...
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Du Barry Was a Lady
1980
Witches' Brew
4.9/9
Three women use witchcraft to help their professor husbands further their careers. When a higher position becomes available in the university, they tu...
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Witches' Brew
1939
Dancing Co-Ed
6.6/5
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dan...
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Dancing Co-Ed
1985
Night of 100 Stars II
6.8/5
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was t...
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Night of 100 Stars II
1943
Strictly G.I.
7.5/4
A filmed broadcast of the Command Performance radio programs in which various Hollywood stars appeared and performed in accordance with letter request...
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Strictly G.I.
1940
We Who Are Young
6.3/6
A man violates company policy by getting married.
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We Who Are Young
1939
Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
4/3
Two starstruck visitors to Hollywood sneak into the famous nightclub and end up in a Conga contest and get more than they expected.
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1937
Topper
6.7/141
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of thei...
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Topper
1994
That's Entertainment! III
7.119/42
Some of MGM's musical stars review the studio's history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...
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That's Entertainment! III
1958
Andy Hardy Comes Home
4.964/14
Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.
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Andy Hardy Comes Home
1943
Show-Business at War
7/4
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
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Show-Business at War
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
7/44
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
1940
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
6.75/8
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a tal...
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1944
Twenty Years After
8/2
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
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Twenty Years After
2002
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
6.5/10
The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary Clooney, Roger Corman, Deanna Durbin and many more.
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Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2017
This Is Bob Hope...
7.667/3
During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the ent...
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1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
8.2/5
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1936
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
6/1
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1938
Four's a Crowd
5.5/16
A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.
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Four's a Crowd
1952
Singin' in the Rain
8.129/3614
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to...
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Singin' in the Rain
2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
7.5/12
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
1993
La Classe américaine
7.585/253
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of...
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La Classe américaine
1996
Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Lana Turner
0/0
Rarely seen movie trailers reveal Lana Turner's rise to stardom. Hosted by Robert Osborne.
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Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Lana Turner
2001
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
7.3/3
A rare behind the scenes look at the tragedies and bitter disappointments that plagued one of MGM's most popular leading ladies
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Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
1954
Great Lady Has an Interview
2/1
A brunette Lana Turner stars in this live song and dance performance of "A Great Lady Has An Interview" to celebrate MGM's 30th anniversary on "The Ed...
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Great Lady Has an Interview
1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
6/7
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.
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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
2003
Murders of Hollywood
5/2
Sensational and shocking stories from Hollywood are not always fiction. Beyond anything a screenwriter could imagine, and with cast of famous stars an...
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Murders of Hollywood
1992
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
8/1
One way or another, the Hollywood police have been kept busy with murders on their ground. There are numerous theories about the killings of Thelma To...
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Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
4.4/5
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t...
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
8/9
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and write...
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