Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
85
Gender
Female
Birthday
February 08, 1921 ( 74 years old )
Place of Birth
Wallace, Idaho, USA
Also Known As
Julia Jean Turner
Лана Тёрнер
Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner
Lana Turner
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.
Known For
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941-08-12Love Has Many Faces
1965-02-24Mr. Imperium
1951-03-02Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982-05-21The Bad and the Beautiful
1952-12-25The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946-05-02Ziegfeld Girl
1941-04-25Imitation of Life
1959-06-26The Hollywood Clowns
1979-03-23The Sea Chase
1955-06-04