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Ilana Turner Wiki Biography

Julia Jean Turner was born on 8 February 1921, in Wallace, Idaho USA, of Irish, Scottish, English and Dutch ancestry. She was an actress, best known for her acting career spanning nearly five decades, active from 1937 to 1985. She appeared in such films as “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, as well as the TV series “Peyton Place”. All of her efforts helped put her net worth to where it was prior to her passing.

How rich is Lana Turner? As of late-2017, sources estimate a net worth that is at $5 million, mostly earned through a successful career in acting. She was nominated once for an Academy Award, but took the lead in numerous films. All of these achievements ensured the position of her wealth.

Turner showcased an interest in performing at a young age. She originally intended to be a nun before 1936, when lung problems prompted her to move to a drier climate at Los Angeles. Lana attended Hollywood High School, where she was discovered by publisher William R. Wilkerson who referred her to an agent who would lead her to sign her first contract, with Warner Bros in 1937.

Her first film for the company was “The Great Garrick” in which she had a supporting role. In the same year, she was cast as a teenage murder victim in “They Won’t Forget”, then signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer even before completing her high school education. She had her first leading role in “Love Finds Andy Hardy” in 1938. Up to the 1940s, her popularity increased as well as her net worth thanks to more opportunities.

Turner was given numerous youth oriented films including in “Ziegfried Girl” and “Johnny Eager”, and became a popular pin-up girl during World War II, starting to get established as a sex symbol. Other films she had during this time include “Honky Tonk”, “Slightly Dangerous” and “Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde”. After the war, she was given a lead role in “The Postman Always Rings Twice” which marked her first femme fatale part. Her acting prowess continued to develop, and she was cast in more dramatic roles, and her next would be “Green Dolphin Street” which became her first starring role that didn’t focus on her looks. Her net worth also continued to grow.

Soon, Lana would appear in her first Technicolor film – “The Three Musketeers”, but during the 1950s, she starred in a series of films that weren’t as successful at the box office, including “Mr. Imperium” and “The Bad and the Beautiful”, which nonetheless had a good critical reception. Her contract with MGM ended in 1956 and this was in part due to the increasing popularity of television. The following year, she found one of her most notable roles in “Peyton Place” which she was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress. Despite the trouble surrounding her daughter’s involvement in the Stompanato killing, Universal Studios capitalized on Lana’s newfound notoriety by association, with “Imitation of Life” which earned huge amounts at the box office.

Later in her career, Turner found herself doing more television work, including guest appearances in several shows such as “Falcon Crest” and “The Love Boat”. In 1994, she was rewarded with the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award during the San Sebastian International Film Festival.

For her personal life, it is known that Lana married eight times to seven different husbands. In 1940, she married band leader Artie Shaw but it lasted for only four months. She then married actor Joseph Stephen Crane two separate times during the 1940s and they had a daughter. In 1948, she married socialite Henry J. Topping Jr. which ended in divorce in 1952, then the following year she married actor Lex Barker which lasted for four years. Her next marriages would be to Frederick May and Robert Eaton during the 1960s. Her last marriage was to hypnotist Ronald Pellar from 1969 to 1972. Lana had problems with alcohol during the 1970s which affected her health, and in turn led to lesser roles. However, she passed away from complications of throat cancer in 1995, three years after being diagnosed with the disease. She was a heavy smoker all her life.

IMDB Wikipedia $5 million 1921-02-08 1977 1977-9-17 1995 1995-06-29 5′ 7″ (1.7 m) 8 February 1921 Actress American Artie Shaw m. 1940–1940 California Cheryl Crane District of Columbia Frederick May m. 1960–1962 Henry J. Topping Hollywood High School Idaho Ilana Turner John Virgil Madison Turner Joseph Stephen Crane Joseph Stephen Crane m. 1943–1944 Jr. m. 1948–1952 June 29 Lana Turner Net Worth Lex Barker m. 1953–1957 Los Angeles Mildred Frances Cowan Robert P. Eaton m. 1965–1969 Ronald Pellar (m. 1969–1972) September 17 United States USA Virgo Wallace Washington

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Ilana Turner Trademarks

1. Platinum blonde hair
2. Voluptuous figure

Ilana Turner Quotes

• In These Glamour Girls (1939), I was billed as costar with Lew Ayres. There were so many girls in the picture that the studio had just slapped up some flats as our dressing rooms. As soon as I saw them I got Mr. Mayer on the phone. I could hear someone on the set whispering, “Uh-oh, she’s going to get in trouble.” But I went ahead and told him directly, “I want a dressing room of my own.” And I got it.
• [on Joan Crawford] One day I got a phone call from Joan Crawford. Greg [Bautzer] had taken me to several parties at her house, but I didn’t know her well. Those parties were all the same. After dinner the guests would be herded into a projection room to watch movies. Joan knitted constantly. During the film, you could always hear her needles clicking away.
• [on her marriage to Artie Shaw] Marriage meant permanence to me, but with Artie, I began to realize, it was no marriage. It was hell.
• [on the headlines about the Stamponato case] I read everything, then reread it, attempting to analyze the whole awful happening. And after I had done that I felt totally drained. The press had done their worst, and now I knew exactly what that worst was. And I’d have to survive it.
• [on relationships] Today things are very different, and I think they’re healthier. People fall in love and move in together, and nobody bats an eye. They get to know each other first, to see if their romance can survive the mundane things like whether or not he picks up after himself, or she leaves hair in the sink. Or that all-important question of sharing expenses, each one pulling his or her weight. Honeymoon first, and if it lasts, then marriage. I like that.
• If I’d been given a magical glimpse into my future, if I could have foreseen everything that was going to happen to me, all the headlines my life would make, all the people who would pass through my days, I wouldn’t have believed a syllable of it!
• I haven’t had an easy life, but it sure hasn’t been a dull one. And I’m pretty proud of the way this gal has held up.
• If I don’t laugh at least three times during the day, I’ve had a bad day. I’ve got to have a minimum of at least three good laughs. I wouldn’t have survived without my sense of humor, and thank God I have always been able to laugh at myself.
• I read someplace that Judy Garland, then seventeen, had had a serious crush on Artie [Shaw]. She had gone out with him days before I did and hoped he was getting serious. The morning after we eloped, she was eating breakfast in bed when she saw the headlines, and immediately burst into tears. Later that day Phil Silvers got an angry phone call from Betty Grable, who was in love with Artie and getting a divorce. “That son of a bitch,” she told Phil, “who does he think he is?”
• [on her marriage to Artie Shaw] After the ceremony, we went out to an all-night diner for coffee. Suddenly I realized that my mother had no idea where I was. The taxi drove us to the telegraph office, and I wrote out a message: “Got married in Las Vegas. Call you later. Love, Lana.” Maybe it was subconscious, but I didn’t mention who it was I’d married.
• With each marriage, I thought that that would be *it*. In my wildest dreams I never, never thought that I would have seven husbands. If you can believe it, I thought at the time that each marriage would last forever. You see, with one bitterly painful exception, when I fell in love, I married.
• [on her father’s murder] The shock I suffered then may be a valid excuse for me now – may explain things I do not myself understand.
• The truth is, sex doesn’t mean that much to me now. It never did, really. It was romance I wanted, kisses and candlelight, that sort of thing. I never did dig sex very much.
• The thing about happiness is that it doesn’t help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I’m grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I’ve had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.
• I liked the boys and the boys liked me.
• Trash is something you get rid of – or disease. I’m not something you get rid of.
• I’ve always loved a challenge.
• Humor has been the balm of my life, but it’s been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
• I planned on having one husband and seven children, but it turned out the other way around.
• [on Hollywood] It was all beauty and it was all talent, and if you had it they protected you.
• I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn’t is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.
• A successful man is one who makes more money than a wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Ilana Turner Important Facts

• $12,500 /week
• 50% of the film’s profits
• $4,000 a week
• $75 a week
• $75 a week
• $50 a week
• $50 a week
• $25 for one day
• Daughter Cheryl Crane fatally stabbed Turner’s lover, gangster Johnny Stompanato, during a physical altercation in 1958. Stompanato physically attacked Turner, and Crane, who was 14 at the time, wanted to protect her mother. Jerry Giesler represented Crane. The murder was deemed justifiable homicide at a coroner’s inquest and Crane was acquitted.
• Her first lover was Greg Bautzer a lawyer who became known as “The Man Who Seduced Hollywood.”.
• According to her autobiography Turner lost her virginity to lawyer Greg Bautzer in March 1938 at age 17. Their relationship ended after Joan Crawford revealed to Turner that she and Bautzer had been having an affair.
• In 1958, while filming Another Time, Another Place (1958) in London, England, she was visited by her boyfriend, gangster Johnny Stompanato. Stompanato suspected that she was having an affair with co-star Sean Connery and at one point confronted Connery and threatened to kill him. Connery knocked him unconscious with one punch. He then waited until Stompanato regained consciousness and told him that if he ever saw Stompanato again he would kill him. Stompanato left London the next day.
• Is mentioned by name in the Gus Kahn / Walter Donaldson song “My Baby Just Cares for Me”.
• Close friend Linda Darnell acted as a witness at Turner’s first wedding to Stephen Crane.
• Favourite actresses as a child included Kay Francis and Norma Shearer.
• When she was a young girl, she had dreams of becoming a dress designer.
• At one point in her life, she counted and discovered that she owned 698 pairs of shoes.
• After her small but stunning part in They Won’t Forget (1937), she was signed by director Mervyn LeRoy, not by Warner Brothers as is often believed (although Leroy was working for Warner Brothers at the time). When Leroy moved to MGM, he took Turner with him.
• Turner’s father was murdered in December 1930 after participating in an all-night crap game in San Francisco, where the family had moved. The case was never solved.
• Shew as not “discovered” seated on a stool in Schwab’s drugstore in Hollywood, but she was seen in an ice cram parlor across the street from Hollywood High School by Billy Wilkerson, founder and publisher of industry trade paper “The Hollywood Rporter,” only a block or two away.
• She was born in a small mining town, where her father Virgil, an itinerant miner and one of 12 children, eloped with 15-year-old Mildred Frances Cowan. Mildred’s parents objected until they learned she was pregnant with what would be her only child, Lana.
• She became involved with co-star Fernando Lamas while filming The Merry Widow (1952). He was supposed to co-star with her again in Latin Lovers (1953), but they had a falling out and Lamas was replaced in the film by Ricardo Montalban.
• Was offered the role of Eloise Y. Kelly in Mogambo (1953) but she turned it down. Ava Gardner, who went on to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance, was cast instead.
• Became pregnant by her first husband Artie Shaw in 1940 and her then-lover Tyrone Power in 1946; on both occasions she had abortions.
• Suffered three stillbirths (in 1949, 1951 and 1956) during her life as a result of having the Rh factor.
• Returned to work five months after giving birth to her daughter Cheryl Crane in order to begin filming Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944).
• Was two months pregnant with her daughter Cheryl Crane when she completed filming Slightly Dangerous (1943).
• In her autobiography she wrote that she had skipped a typing class at Hollywood High School. She went to the Top Hat Cafe, on Sunset Boulevard, and was sitting at the counter sipping a Coke. According to the Sunset Boulevard website, Billy Wilkerson, who wrote for the Hollywood Reporter, noticed her and thought she was attractive enough to be in films. With her mother’s approval, he introduced Turner to the agent, Zeppo Marx, who was Groucho Marx’s brother. Soon she was put under contract to MGM.
• February 14, 1954, CBS: This episode was an hour long tribute to help celebrate MGM’s 30th anniversary. Lana Turner made a live appearance on the show and performed the “Madame Crematante” number (aka “A Great Lady Has An Interview”) that Judy Garland had performed in 1946’s “Ziegfeld Follies”. Among the male singers/dancers featured were Steve Forrest, Edmund Purdom, and John Ericson.
• According to the Richard Burton biography “And God Created Burton” Turner had an affair with the actor when they were filming The Rains of Ranchipur (1955) together.
• Was offered the role of Mrs. Cabot on the series Hotel (1983), but made so many demands that she was dropped and replaced by Anne Baxter.
• Although diagnosed with throat cancer in 1992, Turner continued to smoke until almost the very end of her life.
• She was never married for more than five years. Her longest marriage was to Henry Topping (four years, seven months, 14 days). Her shortest marriage was to Stephen Crane, which was annulled at six months, 18 days (38 days later she married him again). She was married to Artie Shaw for six months and 17 days.
• Sister-in-law of Daniel Topping during her marriage to his brother, Henry Topping.
• Was considered for the role of Maggie Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), which was eventually given to Elizabeth Taylor.
• Featured in “Femme Noir: Bad Girls of Film” by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry (McFarland, 1998).
• Was originally hired to play Caddy Compson in The Sound and the Fury (1959), but was replaced by Margaret Leighton before filming began.
• Campaigned for Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1944 presidential election.
• “The Private Diary of My Life With Lana”, a memoir, written by one of her closest friends, Eric Root, was published one year after her death. Root, a long time friend and hairdresser of Turner’s, has a large collection of jewelry that belonged to Miss Turner. He still owns the beauty salon in Beverly Hills where Turner and many other iconic stars were clients.
• In Italy, almost all of her films were dubbed by either Lidia Simoneschi or Rosetta Calavetta. She was occasionally dubbed by Dhia Cristiani.
• Once said that her turn as Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) was “the role I liked best”.
• Is portrayed by Brenda Bakke in L.A. Confidential (1997)
• Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna’s song “Vogue”
• She was a true American hybrid, with a mixture of Scottish, Irish, Dutch and English ancestry.
• Once she was forced to evacuate her apartment building when a fire broke out. Having only minutes to collect what she needed, Lana grabbed her lipstick, her eyebrow pencil and her hairdryer.
• In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) with Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman Turner was originally supposed to play Ivy, the tart. Bergman was supposed to play the innocent girl engaged to Tracy, but she wanted Turner’s part and so the roles were switched.
• She was called the Sweater Girl. Interestingly, Lana, translated into Spanish means “wool.”
• Her auburn hair was bleached for Idiot’s Delight (1939). She was withdrawn from the film, but the fact that she had become a blonde not only changed her screen image but gave her such an outgoing, swinging personality that Hollywood called her the Nightclub Queen.
• Once when she was being interviewed by Hedda Hopper, Lex Barker, Lana’s future husband, was in the same room. There was a large vase of flowers blocking her view of Lex, so Lana got up, walked across the room and removed them, remarking, “He’s brand new and I want to look at him!”
• Her daughter, Cheryl Crane, wrote a book about her life with her mother, her mother’s 7 husbands and numerous boyfriends and living in Hollywood. It was entitled “Detour: A Hollywood Story” and was published in 1988 (ISBN:o-380-70580-X)
• She was set to appear in Anatomy of a Murder (1959) with James Stewart until she objected to the off-the-rack wardrobe that director Otto Preminger had selected for her. Lee Remick took over the role.
• Billy Wilkerson of The Hollywood Reporter found her sipping a Coke in a drugstore and was so taken by her he blurted out that standard Hollywood line, “How’d you like to be in pictures?”. Her first role, sure enough, had her in a tight skirt and even tighter sweater sitting at a drugstore counter.
• Gave birth to her only child at age 22, a daughter Cheryl Christina Crane (aka Cheryl Crane) on July 25, 1943. Child’s father is her 2nd ex-husband, Stephen Crane.
• Fainted during her 1953 wedding to Lex Barker.
• In her autobiography, she stated that her true birthdate is February 8, 1921. She stated that “I am one year younger than the records show.”
• According to the book “Golden Girls of MGM” by Jane Ellen Wayne, she lost her eyebrows due to the glue used to attach false ones to give her an Asian look.
• Born at 12:30pm-PST

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