Up for auction "Lana Turner" Remnant of Screen Worn Outfit Encapsulated. This item is certified authentic by Todd
Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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Lana Turner (/ˈlɑːnə/; born Julia Jean Turner; February 8,
1921 – June 29, 1995) was an American actress. Over the course of her
nearly 50-year career, she achieved fame as both a pin-up model and a film actress, as well as for her
highly publicized personal life. In the mid-1940s, she was one of the
highest-paid actresses in the United States, and one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's
(MGM) biggest stars, with her films earning the studio more than $50 million
during her 18-year contract with them. Turner is frequently cited as a popular culture icon of Hollywood glamour and a screen
legend of classical Hollywood cinema.
Born to working-class parents in northern Idaho,
Turner spent her childhood there before her family relocated to San Francisco. In 1936, when Turner was 15, she was discovered
while purchasing a soda at the Top Hat Malt Shop in Hollywood. At the age of 16, she was signed to a personal
contract by Warner Bros. director Mervyn LeRoy, who took her with him when he transferred to MGM
in 1938. She soon attracted attention by playing the role of a murder victim in
her film debut, LeRoy's They Won't Forget (1937),
and she later transitioned into supporting roles, often appearing as an ingénue. During the early 1940s, Turner established herself as
a leading lady and one of MGM's top stars, appearing in
such films as the film noir Johnny Eager (1941); the musical Ziegfeld Girl (1941);
the horror film Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde (1941); and the romantic war drama Somewhere I'll Find You (1942),
one of several films in which she starred opposite Clark Gable. Turner's reputation as a glamorous femme fatale was enhanced by her critically acclaimed
performance in the noir The Postman
Always Rings Twice (1946), a role which established her as
a serious dramatic actress. Her popularity continued through the 1950s in
dramas such as The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
and Peyton Place (1957),
the latter for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best
Actress. Intense media scrutiny surrounded the actress in 1958 when
her teenage daughter Cheryl Crane stabbed
Turner's lover Johnny Stompanato to
death in their home during a domestic struggle. Her next film, Imitation of Life (1959),
proved to be one of the greatest commercial successes of her career, and her
final starring role in Madame X (1966)
earned her a David di Donatello Award
for Best Foreign Actress. Turner spent most of the 1970s and early 1980s in
semi-retirement, making her final film appearance in 1980. In 1982, she
accepted a much-publicized and lucrative recurring guest role in the television
series Falcon Crest, which
afforded the series notably high ratings. In 1992, Turner was diagnosed
with throat cancer and
died of the disease three years later at age 74.