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	Lana Turner
		Even under the heavy censorship of 1946 Hollywood, Lana Turner and John Garfield's libidinous desires burn up the screen in Tay Garnett's adaptation of James M. Cain's torrid crime melodrama.
		Platinum blond Turner is Cora, a restless sexpot stuck in a roadside diner married to mundane middle-aged fry cook Nick Smith (Cecil Kellaway) when handsome drifter Frank (Garfield) blows her way.
		She radiates repressed sexuality and uncontrollable passion while Garfield's smart-talking loner Frank mixes street-smart swagger and scrappy toughness with vulnerability and sincere intensity.
	www.noirtexas.com /lana_turner.htm (221 words)

	Lana Turner
		Lana was born Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner on February 8, 1921.
		Lana's fourteen year-old daughter Cheryl Crane, was outside the room listening, and went into the kitchen to get a butcher knife when she heard the threat.
		In 1993, Lana announced that her cancer was in remission and she was fully recovered.
	www.oralcancerfoundation.org /people/lana_turner.htm (1181 words)

	Lana Turner Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Lana Turner was born on February 8, 1920 into a financially strained family that lived in the rural area of Wallace, Idaho.
		Turner's mother took a job in San Francisco and was reunited with her daughter after discovering that friends in Modesto had physically abused the child.
		As Turner herself recounted years later, she and her mother attended the first screening of the film and were mortified by the whistles from men in the audience when Turner appeared onscreen wearing a tight fitting sweater.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/lana-turner (1542 words)

	Lana Turner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lana Turner (February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995) was a busty American film actress and sex symbol.
		Lana Turner was born Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner in Wallace, Idaho, the daughter of John Virgil Turner, a miner from Hohenwald, Tennessee, and Mildred Frances Cowan, a 16-year-old Alabama girl.
		Off-screen, Turner was married eight times to seven different husbands, and had many lovers, including Tyrone Power (whom she calls the love of her life in her autobiography), Howard Hughes (who is reported to have given her syphilis), and a minor gangster and abusive boyfriend named Johnny Stompanato.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lana_Turner (1156 words)

	Lana Turner Summary
		Lana Turner (February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995) was an American actress famed early in her career for her appearances in tight sweaters, and her smoldering sensuality, and later in her career for sudsy romance films with maximal glamorous evening gowns and tragedy.
		Turner's legendary discovery was at the age of 15 in 1936 at the Top Hat Café, which was across the street from Hollywood High School, where she was a student.
		Off-screen, Turner was married eight times to seven different husbands, and had many lovers, including Tyrone Power (whom she calls the love of her life in her autobiography), Howard Hughes (who is reported to have given her syphilis), and a minor gangster named Johnny Stompanato who was fatally stabbed by Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane.
	www.bookrags.com /Lana_Turner (2949 words)

	Lana Turner
		Lana Turner was born Julia Jean Mildred Francis Turner in Wallace, Idaho.
		Lana herself said in her autobiography that she was one year younger (1921) than the records showed, but then this was a time where women, especially actresses, tended to "fib" a bit about their age.
		Turner came into her own after the war in steamy melodramas such as The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946, a tough but oddly glamorous version of a gritty James M. Cain novel) and Cass Timberlane (1947), but she was still often called upon to add star appeal without having to carry a pic ture.
	www.movietreasures.com /Lana_Turner/lana_turner.html (1433 words)

	Lana Turner Trivia - Lana Turner Facts - Lana Turner Notes
		Lana's final public appearance came in October of 1994 at the San Sebastian film festival where she was guest of honor.
		Lana was cremated and her ashes were scattered at sea by daughter Cheryl.
		Lana originally wanted to tell the police that it was her, not daughter Cheryl, who had stabbed Johnny Stompanato to death but was dissuaded from doing so by her attorney.
	www.tv.com /lana-turner/person/65730/trivia.html (909 words)

	Denny Jackson's Lana Turner Page
		Lana Turner was born Julia Jean Mildred Francis Turner in Wallace, Idaho.
		Lana herself said in her autobiography that she was one year younger (1921) than the records showed, but then this was a time where women, especially actresses, tended to "fib" a bit about their age.
		Lana was one of the most beautiful newcomers to grace the silver screen in years.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/2440/index-k.html (556 words)

	Lana Turner at Classic Actresses (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lana Turner was born Julia Jean Turner on February 8, 1921, in Wallace, Idaho.
		Lana testified on Cheryl's behalf and it was ruled a justifiable homicide.
		Lana claimed she was celibate for the last twenty years of her life.
	www.classicactresses.com /lana.html (484 words)

	Lana Turner Tribute at Classic Movie Stars
		Lana Turner was born Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner, on February 8, 1920, in Wallace, Idaho.
		Though many people think that Lana was discovered drinking a soda in Schwabs drugstore she was actually discovered at the age of 15, in the Top Hat Caffe by William R. Wilkerson, the publisher of the Hollywood Reporter.
		Lana spent the last decade of her life without any scandel and away from the public.
	www.angelfire.com /ri2/rebeccastjames/Lana.html (725 words)

	Lana Turner FBI Files
		In 1958, Turner was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress for her role in "Peyton Place." On April 4, 1958, Lana Turner had a fight in her bedroom with Stompanato.
		In the 1980's, Turner had a recurring role, appearing on the television series "Falcon Crest." Lana Turner died from throat cancer in 1995, at the age of 74.
		A memo reports that in 1945, Lana Turner was turned away from the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York because of her association with a fl musician.
	www.paperlessarchives.com /lana_turner_fbi_files.html (483 words)

	Lana Turner - Biography - Moviefone
		Dubbed "the Sweater Girl" by the press, Turner was touted by MGM as a successor to Jean Harlow, but audiences did not take her to heart; she did, however, become a popular pin-up, especially with American soldiers fighting overseas.
		Turner's box-office stock was plummeting, a situation which MGM attempted to remedy by casting her in musicals; while the first, 1951's Mr.
		Turner's performance won an Academy Award nomination, and the following year she made international headlines when her lover, gangster Johnny Stampanato, was stabbed to death by her teenage daughter, Cheryl Crane; a high-profile court trial followed, and although Crane was eventually acquitted on the grounds of justifiable homicide, Turner's reputation took a severe beating.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/lana-turner/72175/biography (643 words)

	Lana Turner at AllExperts
		Lana Turner (February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995) was an American film actress and sex symbol.
		Lana Turner was born Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner in Wallace, Idaho, the daughter of John Virgil Turner, a miner from Hohenwald, Tennessee and Mildred Frances Cowan, a 16-year-old Alabama girl.
		Turner earned the nickname the "Sweater Girl" due to a scene in They Won't Forget, in which her bosom bounced in a tight sweater.
	en.allexperts.com /e/l/la/lana_turner.htm (897 words)

	Divas - The Site / Acting Divas / Trivia Lana Turner
		Georgia Holt, mother of Cher, was a huge fan of Lana's and baptized her daughter as Cherlyn, a spin on Cheryl, the name of Lana's only daughter.
		By the time the movie was finished Lana's eyebrows had disappeared completely and would never grow back, forcing her to paint them on for the rest of her life.
		Lana died on the night of 29 June 1995 in the arms of Carmen Cruz, her maid of 44 years.
	www.divasthesite.com /Acting_Divas/Trivia/Trivia_Lana_Turner.htm (1228 words)

	Lana Turner Online
		I thank you all and remind you that this site is not only a valentine to Lana but to her fans as well.
		Lana, The Lady, The Legend, The Truth: Lana Turner, 1982.
		I have been a classic film nut from the age of nine and Lana Turner is one of many Golden Age stars that I admire.
	www.lanaturneronline.com (0 words)

	Lana Turner at For the Love of Opera Gloves
		Lana Turner, the "Sweater Girl", exuded sexuality and starpower throughout her leading roles in the 1940's and 1950's, in such classic films as "The Postman Always Rings Twice", "The Merry Widow", "Imitation of Life", and "Madame X".
		Lana Turner in "Marriage Is A Private Affair", Gallery 1
		Lana Turner in "Marriage Is A Private Affair", Gallery 2
	www.operagloves.com /StarIndexes/lanaindex.html (0 words)

	Lana Turner Online
		I thank you all and remind you that this site is not only a valentine to Lana but to her fans as well.
		Lana, The Lady, The Legend, The Truth: Lana Turner, 1982.
		I have been a classic film nut from the age of nine and Lana Turner is one of many Golden Age stars that I admire.
	www.lanaturneronline.com /index.htm (372 words)

	Lana Turner information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lana was discovered at the age of 15 in 1936 at the Top Hat Café in Hollywood by film journalist William R. Wilkerson, who introduced her to actor/comedian/talent agent Zeppo Marx.
		During the 1950s, Turner's films started to flop at the box-office, until she starred in Vincente Minnelli's masterpiece The Bad and the Beautiful and later the big screen adaptation of Grace Metalious's best-selling novel Peyton Place in which she earned an Academy Award for Best Actress.
		In the 1970s and 1980s, Turner appeared in several television roles, but the majority of her final decade was spent out of the public eye.
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	Lana Turner - MovieActors.com
		Lana Turner was born on February 8, 1921 in Wallace, Idaho.
		Lana Turner's birth name was Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner she also went by the nickname Sweater Girl.
		Lana's eyebrows were shaved off for the bit part of a harem girl early in her screen career.
	www.movieactors.com /actors/lanaturner.htm (150 words)

	Lana Turner
		Lana Turner was a prime example of the star-making power of the studio system.
		Turner's favorite leading man brushed her lips in in three movies, starting with their most successful pairing, Honky Tonk, followed seven years later by the 1948 Homecoming, d the last of the three, 1954's Betrayed.
		Turner often played roles that called on her to portray women hungry to turn glass into diamonds, without the knowledge of the Alchemists.
	www.filmsondisc.com /posterarchive/lana_turner.htm (846 words)

	Lana Turner (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lana Turner was no stranger to outstanding hardship.
		She was born Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner on February 8, 1921 to John and Mildred Turner in Wallace, Idaho.
		Lana's uneventful birth in itself was relief-her grandmother had died in childbirth due to Rh factor complications - and there was a possibility the condition had been passed
	www.mutoworld.com /Turner.htm (482 words)

	Lana Turner Biography (Actor) — FactMonster.com
		Known as the "Sweater Girl," Lana Turner (like Betty Grable) was a popular pinup for GIs in World War II.
		Lana Turner - Lana Turner (Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner) actress Born: 2/8/1921 Birthplace: Wallace, Idaho...
		Lana: The lady, the legend, the truth by Lana Turner
	www.factmonster.com /biography/var/lanaturner.html (385 words)

	Stillettos and Sneakers - Tribute To Lana Turner
		Turner earned the nickname the "Sweater Girl" due to a scene in her debut movie They Won't Forget (1937), in which her bosom was apprently prominentyl featured..
		Turner took that advice to heart, and gave a performance in “That Bad and the Beautiful” that had even her harshest crtics cowering.
		Of course, Cheryl Crane was infamous for the death of Lana's boyfriend and she is a lesbian.
	abillings.livejournal.com /210537.html (1779 words)

	Granta: 'In Lana Turner's Bedroom' by Gaby Wood
		Mildred Turner called the doctor, and the doctor, on pronouncing Stompanato dead, suggested to Lana that she call the most celebrated criminal lawyer in Los Angeles, Jerry Giesler.
		Lana Turner was a poor girl from Idaho who moved to Los Angeles with her mother after her father had been murdered in a gambling incident.
		In fact Lana moved in only days before the murder and moved out the morning after the inquest—she lived there for less than two weeks; and she had bought the knife with Stompanato earlier that day—the coroner found the price tag still on it.
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	Lana Turner Biography
		As legend has it, the golden-haired starlet was in high school when she was "discovered" at a soda fountain by a Hollywood film journalist.
		She played a gangster's moll in Johnny Eager (1942) but was best remembered for her sizzling sex appeal as a murdering adulteress in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946).
		Turner portrayed an alcoholic actress in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and earned an Academy Award nomination for her role as a neurotic mother in the blockbuster Peyton Place (1957).
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/4400/lturnerbio.htm (240 words)

	MMI Review: Lana Turner Tribute (Site not responding. Last check: )
		We remember Lana Turner most vividly in glistening movie stills and in carefully-staged film sequences where she didn't have to talk.
		For understandable reasons, "Ziegfield Girl", her 14th of 55 movies, is Lana Turner's all-time favorite.
		For most of her 43 years on screen, she was required to supply her audiences with a gorgeous, glamorous & gullible icon with all the trimmings.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/lturner.html (336 words)

	Amazon.com: The Films of Lana Turner: Books: Lou Valentino (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Unfortunately, books about Lana Turner are few and far between, but I'd say this is easily the cream of the crop.
		This awesome book is packed with hundreds of great photos of Lana, and it examines each and every role she ever had in Hollywood.
		Valentino, the most recognized authority on and collector of Turner memorabilia, has written what amounts to a mini-biography of this beautiful, underrated film actress, inluding film-by-film descriptions and backstage glimpses of each film that are accurate and fascinating.
	www.amazon.com /Films-Lana-Turner-Lou-Valentino/dp/0806507241 (1168 words)

	Lana Turner Photos - Lana Turner News - Lana Turner Information
		Blonde actress once nicknamed the Sweater Girl who became almost as famous for her notorious personal life as for her roles on the movie screen.
		She made the tabloids in the late 1950's along with her daughter Cheryl when Cheryl stabbed Lana's mobster lover, Johnny Stompanato, to death after he reportedly hit Lana.
		Turner was also married eight times and had numerous other lovers during her...
	www.tv.com /lana-turner/person/65730/summary.html (330 words)

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