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 Wont 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 Ill 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 Turners lover Johnny Stompanato to death A coroners inquest brought considerable media attention to Turner and concluded that Crane had acted in self defense Turners 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